Which brass do you prefer

[devster55]

I personally prefer plane brass other than nickel. How about you. I always seem to have a harder time sizing and removing the bulge on nickel. Any secrets right now I am removing the bulge on about 1000 pcs of 40 brass that's nickel.

[Tom-ADC]

Many many years ago I bought a few thousand .357 cases in nickel and the same number of 38 Spl in brass just because I hated sorting them, back then we just dumped all the fired cases into a 5 gallon bucket then sorted them at home.
Still have a few left of each but now we sort by caliber in separate containers.
Couldn't really tell any difference reloading them.

[357magnum]

I use both nickel and brass for .357 mag, can't tell the difference.
I use magnum brass for magnum and special loads, nickel for magnum and brass for the special loads.

[devster55]

So nobody notices a difference in sizing nickel brass? I got a killer deal on it that's why I'm using it.

[noylj]

I have had nickel plating flake off and "embed" in the carbide sizer and the Lee FCD carbide ring that then put "racing stripes" on my cases.
I have not noted any real difference in sizing, but I sure don't need scratches running down my cases and scrubbing out carbide rings.

['ol shooter]

I use Starline when I can. I use Win for some rifle, Rem for some handgun and rifle, and bought Lapua for my .260 Rem. Lapua is far and away better than the others in quality out of the box, but it's pricy. Rem took the most prep in my experience, rough case necks.

[MongooseV8]

Nickel is usually stiffer and harder to resize. I dont like using it. I use starline, lapua, almost exclusively, with a couple exceptions of hornady/nosler/norma. Preference depends on caliber.

[Pauliedad]

In .40, 9, 10, and 45, I most definitely notice a tad more resistance when resizing and they will split before any of the brass given the same number of loads. They're so shiny though!
For plinking, I don't sort by headstamp so they just pop up every now and then. Lately, I've been setting them aside thinking they deserve some special use.
I like the idea about buying some in a specific caliber for ease of identification.
More so for a revolver in that those don't wander away as much as some of those semi flyers.

[sunborder]

In handgun, I use the plain brass for everything except snakeshot, which gets loaded in the nickel. I am only loading for .38spl, though, so the brass is going to last forever, anyway...

I haven't noticed a difference in effort required for resizing

[micro911]

I don't care either way for the pistol reloading. But, for my rifles, specially 308, I like LC match or Federal match brass. I get very consistent results.

[8mmFMJ]

Nosler, S&B, Fiocchi (Perfecta), Hornady are my keepers. I'll reload whatever for plinking though. Perfecta has some tight primer pockets but I've never lost a primer like I have seen with federal or win.

[MrElectric03]

I prefer the free kind. If it's free it's for me!

I just bought a bunch of .357 brass, about 700 nickel and 300 or so brass. I prefer to use brass just because of others experiences with nickel but I haven't noticed any problems.

[TomReloaded]

If I pick some nickle plated cases up, ill reload them. However, I find a lot more nickle cases split down the side than brass. Ive found maybe 15 or 20 split nickle cases, but only one split brass case ever... and I have probably 100:1 brass to nickle. I just inspect them more closely.

[devster55]

This was free as well.

[uhlan1]

Which do I prefer?

I prefer whatever you leave on the ground for me.
I've never noticed a difference.