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7mm STW
7mm STW Brotherhood - For those who shoot the 7mm Shooting Times Westerner
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<blockquote data-quote="7stw" data-source="post: 691037" data-attributes="member: 22854"><p>I learned a lesson years ago about using, resizing, and CLEANING nickel plated brass. Grit, primer residue, and what have gets imbedded in the pores of the nickel, and when you resize it, it can scratch your dies. I found that if you polish it first, before you resize it, it dosen't seem to be as bad. Also, it seems to smooth out some of the high spots in the plating. As far as the interchangeability of the two, I honestly don't know. I am told, but can not prove it, that the plated brass supposedly is somewhat stiffer. I have not weighed the plated and non plated, and compared them that way, but yours is a interesting question. I am not particularly fond of plated brass, in fact I didn't know that it was plated until I got home with it. ( bought it at a gun show). </p><p>I have a full box of federal Gold Medal plated brass for my 22-250. I have had no problems with it. I do polish it frequently, and I only neck size it any way. Actually, I neck size for my STW's also. So that in itself, will keep a lot of the abrasion down. Take care , and enjoy the holiday. I can smell deer season in the air.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="7stw, post: 691037, member: 22854"] I learned a lesson years ago about using, resizing, and CLEANING nickel plated brass. Grit, primer residue, and what have gets imbedded in the pores of the nickel, and when you resize it, it can scratch your dies. I found that if you polish it first, before you resize it, it dosen't seem to be as bad. Also, it seems to smooth out some of the high spots in the plating. As far as the interchangeability of the two, I honestly don't know. I am told, but can not prove it, that the plated brass supposedly is somewhat stiffer. I have not weighed the plated and non plated, and compared them that way, but yours is a interesting question. I am not particularly fond of plated brass, in fact I didn't know that it was plated until I got home with it. ( bought it at a gun show). I have a full box of federal Gold Medal plated brass for my 22-250. I have had no problems with it. I do polish it frequently, and I only neck size it any way. Actually, I neck size for my STW's also. So that in itself, will keep a lot of the abrasion down. Take care , and enjoy the holiday. I can smell deer season in the air. [/QUOTE]
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