Nickel plated brass will wear out your barrel? - Page 2

Boerrancher · 11-03-2009, 06:04 AM

I have never had any issues with nickel cases, shot them several times over until they split.

Best wishes from the Boer Ranch,

Joe

44man · 11-03-2009, 06:05 AM

I shot nickel so long the plating wore off in the tumbler!

They are nice and slick in a sizing die.
Back when I had a Lone Eagle in 7mm-08, the ejector would ride over the rim on brass cases but nickel was slippery enough to release from the chamber. I never lost a case to cracking.
I don't buy much of it because it costs more.

MT Gianni · 11-03-2009, 08:04 AM

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Originally Posted by Echo

Nickled cases don't turn your gunbelt green like brass cases do...

They don't hang up in the "dump pouches" that preceded speed loaders either after sitting for months without use.

Ricochet · 11-03-2009, 09:07 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by jhrosier

I think that you are supposed to shoot vampires with wooden bullets loaded in nickled cases.

I thought you were supposed to make 'em out of steak and shoot 'em in the heart with it.

1Shirt · 11-03-2009, 11:07 AM

I'm with AZ Stew! After many, many, many rounds----yah!
1Shirt!

Oldtimer · 11-03-2009, 03:22 PM

I agree with richbug. I have an old 3 screw K frame Smith PPC gun that I shot on the local police pistol team back in the early 70's. Was used when I got it. I prolly shot 75 thousand rounds or more through it over the years. Sometimes we'd burn a thousand rounds a week each. At one time, I had a 20 gal garbage can full of hulls. The majority was nickel plated. Gun is kinda loose now, but off a sandbag will still hold a 2 inch group at 35 yards. No doubt about it, neck will split a lot faster than a brass case. I've loaded thousands, and thousands. Bob

Guesser · 11-03-2009, 03:31 PM

This falls into the same static waste barrel as the fact that every one that ate carrots prior to 1858 "DIED".

stubshaft · 11-03-2009, 03:39 PM

Looke like something the myth busters should look into.

armexman · 11-04-2009, 07:07 AM

Guesser; yes they all did die, or at least I haven't seen any around

BOOM BOOM · 11-04-2009, 05:09 PM

hi,
Back in the late 1960's I bought several thousand Nickle jacked 7MM bullets.
After putting at least 3,000 through my 7MM mag. plus many copper jacketed bullets it still shoots under an inch if I do my part.
If nickle was going to bother my bore that shuld have done it.

AZ-Stew · 11-06-2009, 09:32 AM

Speaking of such, back in the early 70s, Speer used to sell a .224 52 gr hollow point that was nickle plated. They called it the "Silver Match" bullet. I still have a box of them. I shot a bunch of them with no adverse effect on my .22-250.

Regards,

Stew

11-03-2009, 06:04 AM	#21
Boerrancher Boolit Master Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: East Central Missouri Posts: 1,109	I have never had any issues with nickel cases, shot them several times over until they split. Best wishes from the Boer Ranch, Joe __________________ Just a TYPICAL white person clinging to his God and his guns. Tyrants use the force of the people to chain and subjugate-that is, enyoke the people. They then plough with them as men do with oxen yoked. Thus the spirit of liberty and innovation is reduced by bayonets, and principles are struck dumb by cannon shot: Albert Pike, Morals and Dogma

11-03-2009, 11:07 AM	#25
1Shirt Boolit Master Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Omaha, Ne. Posts: 1,252	I'm with AZ Stew! After many, many, many rounds----yah! 1Shirt! __________________ "Common Sense Is An Uncommon Virtue" Ben Franklin

11-03-2009, 03:39 PM	#28
stubshaft Boolit Master Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: Southernmost State of the Union Posts: 945	Looke like something the myth busters should look into. __________________ If your going to put a hole in something...MAKE IT A BIG ONE.

11-04-2009, 07:07 AM	#29
armexman Boolit Man Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Eastern Boulder Cnty,CO Posts: 82	THey Did Guesser; yes they all did die, or at least I haven't seen any around

11-04-2009, 05:09 PM	#30
BOOM BOOM Boolit Master Join Date: Apr 2005 Posts: 725	norma bullets hi, Back in the late 1960's I bought several thousand Nickle jacked 7MM bullets. After putting at least 3,000 through my 7MM mag. plus many copper jacketed bullets it still shoots under an inch if I do my part. If nickle was going to bother my bore that shuld have done it.

11-03-2009, 06:05 AM	#22
44man Boolit Master Join Date: Mar 2005 Posts: 6,349	I shot nickel so long the plating wore off in the tumbler! They are nice and slick in a sizing die. Back when I had a Lone Eagle in 7mm-08, the ejector would ride over the rim on brass cases but nickel was slippery enough to release from the chamber. I never lost a case to cracking. I don't buy much of it because it costs more.

11-03-2009, 03:22 PM	#26
Oldtimer Boolit Bub Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: Meridian Miss. Posts: 49	I agree with richbug. I have an old 3 screw K frame Smith PPC gun that I shot on the local police pistol team back in the early 70's. Was used when I got it. I prolly shot 75 thousand rounds or more through it over the years. Sometimes we'd burn a thousand rounds a week each. At one time, I had a 20 gal garbage can full of hulls. The majority was nickel plated. Gun is kinda loose now, but off a sandbag will still hold a 2 inch group at 35 yards. No doubt about it, neck will split a lot faster than a brass case. I've loaded thousands, and thousands. Bob

11-03-2009, 03:31 PM	#27
Guesser Boolit Man Join Date: May 2009 Location: North Central Montana; across the wide Missouri Posts: 100	This falls into the same static waste barrel as the fact that every one that ate carrots prior to 1858 "DIED".

11-06-2009, 09:32 AM	#31
AZ-Stew Boolit Master Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Mesa, AZ Posts: 1,352	Speaking of such, back in the early 70s, Speer used to sell a .224 52 gr hollow point that was nickle plated. They called it the "Silver Match" bullet. I still have a box of them. I shot a bunch of them with no adverse effect on my .22-250. Regards, Stew __________________ Ask your anti-gun politician: "What is it that you want to do that you don't feel safe doing until you get me disarmed?" Shoot all intolerant people! Every last one of them! Archery: The only sport where you can't try it until you've nocked it. "I (did, on several occasions) swear to support and defend the Constitution of the United States, against ALL enemies, foriegn AND domestic, and to bear true faith and allegiance to the same." And when I left, they never asked me to recant.