What did you do at your reloading bench today?

[CT_Shooter]

I've come to the point that I rarely bother with nickel cases anymore. Sometimes you can get a half dozen loadings out of them and sometimes not.

Me, too. Last year, I still had several boxes of reloaded nickel cases that I finally decided never to reload again. Too many split rims. After firing, I left them at the range. Only use brass now.

[Vaquero]

I'm more like Al, as I don't look for or collect them, but do load them until they split. I actually have some Winchester nickel brass that I have no idea how many times they've been stuffed in the past years.

RP

[cpaspr]

I actually like the nickel cases. Though really just for .38 Special and .357 Magnum. Other calibers, I don't really care. I will admit to having been somewhat of a brass rat for a long time, so on the occasion one splits I just toss it and move on. That one in the picture looks to have originally been a wadcutter case, so a bit thinner in the middle than a "normal" non-wadcutter case. I'm setting my nickel .38 Specials aside for use only in the Henry Big Boy Steel, loading them with 173gr Keith SWCs to what should be +P levels in the revolver (i.e. unpleasant to shoot). They'll be much more pleasant in the rifle. I'll save the brass brass for revolver use, which will let me know at a glance what I'm looking at, in case my reading ability fails me.

Funny thing, for the .357 Magnum, I actually toss all the brass cases, and only keep the nickel ones. But I have probably 1000 of them or more, so splitting one now and again won't bother me at all. I have several hundred of the nickel .38s, and maybe 2000 brass .38s. Easily a lifetime supply.

As for what I did today, I ran about 210 162gr .360" diameter wadcutters through the lubesizer to bring them down to .358". I have another 140 or so yet to go later. They'll be going in .357 Mag cases for bowling pin shooting.

[Headhog]

The club I shoot at runs an ICORE match on the 5th Saturday of a month. So about every 3 months. These are fun revolver matches and that’s what I use any nickel brass I have. I just leave my brass behind for anyone that wants it. I have about 2 more years worth of nickel brass left before I have to start into my good brass. Those I will pick up.

Paul