223 / 5.56 reloading cases - Nickel or Brass?

[Boba Fett]

Nickel or Brass for reloading 5.56.

Is one better than the other in terms of reloading and reusing?

 

[Walkalong]

Load whatever you have. It's all good. Frankly, I would just as soon have all brass myself, but nothing wrong with nickle plated stuff.

 

[BP44]

Well, I voted brass because I have always had problems with nickle plated stuff flaking after 6+ resizing but I always full length resize so i think if you just neck sized you could get more life out of them.

 

[andcam]

I like brass because I can get more of it.

 

[lgbloader]

I would just as soon have all brass myself,

Ditto

 

[ArchAngelCD]

IMO a third choice of "either is fine" would have helped this Poll.

 

[Grumulkin]

Nickel looks pretty and cleans up well but it's a bit hard on case trimers.

 

[nicholst55]

Nickel looks pretty and cleans up well but it's a bit hard on case trimmers.

And sizing dies. Anyone else ever have the 'nickel' flake off and get embedded in the sizing die? It scratches the crap out of subsequent cases.

 

[Boba Fett]

Thanks for the input everyone.

Brass it is.


Main reason I was asking was I found some cases on gunbroker.com and they weren't much more expensive than the brass so I wondered if they would last longer, work better, etc.

But I'll just stick to reloading brass.