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Which one????

8yellowfintuna8yellowfintuna Member Posts: 787 ✭✭✭✭
edited February 2005 in Perry Shooter Competition Shooting and Reloading Forum
What do you used BRASS or NICKLE plated? I use both but lean more toward brass, seems that they last longer. What are you thoughts???

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  • ruger270manruger270man Member Posts: 9,361 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    cases?

    I havent had much factory ammo that was nickel, except speer nitrex .243.

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  • 8yellowfintuna8yellowfintuna Member Posts: 787 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Sorry Ruger270 I left out cases...thanks

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  • ruger270manruger270man Member Posts: 9,361 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by 8yellowfintuna
    Sorry Ruger270 I left out cases...thanks


    brass probably has more give to it

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  • JustCJustC Member Posts: 16,056 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Nickel cases are hard on dies due to the nickel being so much harder and having less "lubricity" than brass. When some grime is thrown in,..nickel and dirt will scratch the interior surface of the dies.

    If I were going to use nickel cases,..I would neck size with the lee collett die so that nothing would be touched but the neck.

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  • richbugrichbug Member Posts: 3,650
    edited November -1
    All of my 40 brass for competition is Winchester nickle. By the time it starts looking dingy, i know it is time to replace it. I probably go 8-10 loads on it. Cracks and flaws stand out like sore thumbs on nickle cases. Nickle doesn't last as long.

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  • ContacFrontContacFront Member Posts: 1,113 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I'd say go with brass. The nickle plating makes the cases more brittle in my opinion. For pistol it wouldn't matter so much but for rifle, go with brass. The shinny stuff doesn't help performance at all, just looks prettier.
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  • bpostbpost Member Posts: 32,669 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by ContacFront
    I'd say go with brass. The nickle plating makes the cases more brittle in my opinion. For pistol it wouldn't matter so much but for rifle, go with brass. The shinny stuff doesn't help performance at all, just looks prettier.


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  • WarbirdsWarbirds Member Posts: 16,928 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    It doesn't really matter to me, I have a few hundred nickel plated casings in several handgun calibers, but since brass is generally more readily available that's mostly what I have.

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  • IconoclastIconoclast Member Posts: 10,515 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I've forgotten the details of "why" but the nickel plated brass is more brittle than the unplated. From what I've read and my personal experience, the case mouths will fail sooner with the plated brass. But given the cost of most handgun brass (which is, after all 99.8%) of the plated brass types, I don't worry about it too much. Typically, I find the primer pockets tend to become enlarged before the case mouth fails. This isn't 100%, and does not mean one need not check *every* case *every* time before loaing, but I don't worry about it much. The use of carbide sizing dies pretty much eliminates concern about scratches in tool from flecks of plating or minor crude.

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