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I quit using nickel plated brass because it scratched my dies. Dunno whether it was dirt carried in the slightly rougher nickel surface or flaked nickel, result was the same a ruined die.
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Seems to work fine for me but I don't have enough of it to load in a separate batch and like to keep all loads as consistent as possible. No real proof but my gut tells me that case capacity will be slightly different in nickeled brass vs. regular brass, so I only use it when I have one or two stray projectiles to use up or some reason to have a designated different load than my usual reloads. I don't find much of it at the range so I don't think it is as common as regular brass.
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Scratched my Lee Collet mandrel when I was uniforming new necks course that is probably not the hardest steel. I suspect that up inside your die where the case mouth first hits the forcing cone on a FL die, the nickel is scratching up your die and you don't know it Also http://www.varmintal.net/arelo.htm#Nickel_Brass
Last edited by woods; 04/13/15.
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I don't like it because it's harder to size and the nickel stinks when you heat it with propane torch to anneal, and you can't check the shine of the brass while heating. +1 I bought a bunch of nickel Win 22-250 when I started loading for my 6-250 and its a pain to anneal and seems to need it faster than unplated cases.
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