Reloading Nickel Cases?

[dave1372 83]

Quick question.....is it ok to reload nickel cases ? I was speaking to someone and they said the cases may cause some damage to the dies so it is best not to reload them. Anyone else heard this....opinions please.

[danw 1,748]

Quick question.....is it ok to reload nickel cases ? I was speaking to someone and they said the cases may cause some damage to the dies so it is best not to reload them. Anyone else heard this....opinions please.

 

I believe the general consensus is that you can reload nickel but it is not as good as plain brass this link gives a bit more info http://www.varmintal.net/arelo.htm#Nickel_Brass

[andyf 144]

Quick question.....is it ok to reload nickel cases ? I was speaking to someone and they said the cases may cause some damage to the dies so it is best not to reload them. Anyone else heard this....opinions please.

Yes of course you can, you can buy new nickel plated reloading brass from Midway UK, so that wouldn't be very clever if you couldn't put them through a die would it?

The 'anoraks' out there will tell you that nickel plated brass could damage your dies because it's harder than the steel the die is made of etc etc DOH!

I don't use them much, but my .270 reloads have 3 different weight's of Nosler bullets all of which have Yellow plastic tips, so I bought 20 Nickel cases to load the 150 grain

bullets that I hardly ever use (Red Deer only) so that I can tell which is what,I've shot and reloaded these loads of times and no problems at all.

Don't listen to Anoraks they spend too much time talking and not enough 'doing'!

AF

[HUnter_zero 58]

I've tried but for some reason I can not get neck tension on the cases but as the rounds were for a friend I didn't really try that hard to be honest. Not sure about damaging dies.

 

John