Nickle Coated Brass.

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I have just bought a 340 Wby mag and need to get some brass. I am thinking of getting some 300Wby and necking up. I have never used the shiny silver stuff and would like some opinions on it.

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A.H
 
It can flake off

Alberta hunter said:
I have just bought a 340 Wby mag and need to get some brass. I am thinking of getting some 300Wby and necking up. I have never used the shiny silver stuff and would like some opinions on it.

Thanks

A.H
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A.H.

My experience will nickel cases was with .357 mag. pistol brass. The nickel flaked off at the case mouth and scratched the hell out of my steel FL die.

I polished out the die, and tossed the nickel brass.

NormB
 
I have reloaded literally 1000's of nickel pistol and rifle brass and never had a problem. However, I have not necked up nickel brass of any kind.
 
I don't like it. I have had it flake and it is harder on your dies. It also tends to crack around the case neck. I haven't expanded .300 to .340 as I couldn't be bothered, I just bought .340 brass, but i suspect you will have problems with the nickel plating on the neck sooner......having expanded it and put stress on the plating.

I could be wrong..........but that is my take on it.

I figure if I can afford to shoot a .340 I can afford the brass. It isn't too bad if you buy it by the 100's. I bought 200 cases and that will last me a LONG time.
 
i find that nickle plated cases harder to resize than regular brass. i only use it to differentiat low pressure loads for my FR7.
 
I was trimming nickle plated brass with my Wilson trimmer. After about 6 rounds I could not figure out why it was not cutting as fast. I found out after talking to the gunshop that it is hard. He said I probably damaged the cutter. That I did. I ordered to more cutters and will never use it again.

It may look nice but that is about it.


Calvin
 
Nickel is much harder than brass and nickel plated cases are harder too.

The resizing force is higher and it will definitely eat steel dies. Carbide dies are much harder than the nickel so its not a problem with them.

Personally I like the nickel brass for pistol, but since most rifle dies are steel I'd pass on it for rifle loads.
 
I was told by a reliable gunsmith that nickle brass will crack and possibly embed into your chamber and either scratch the crap out of it or it will make a pillar that your brass will expand around therefore making an ejection problem
that made it not worth it to me just incase
Daniel
 
I have nickle plated 223 brass and never had a problem with it, I also bought the carbide cutter for my Lyman power trimmer when I bought it so never noticed a dull cutter so far.
 
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