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Old December 20, 2000, 05:16 PM   #1
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I've been using a set of Lee dies in .357 SIG for a few years now with very good results.
Up until this point, I had used Starline brass exclusively.
The last 400 rounds I loaded up were with some Speer nickel brass.
Now any brass that I size has very obvious and deep scratches on it. (ie: if you run a thumbnail around the brass, it will catch on every scratch)
I cleaned my dies just before I started to reload this batch of nickel brass. The first bunch of nickel rounds look just like all the previous reloads... which is just fine! No deep scratches at all.

Has anyone else experienced this? Is nickel known to do this, and I am just unfortunate to have not heard of the problem?
Is it only a problem with steel dies and not carbide dies?

Are my dies ruined now? Anything I can do to fix the problem?
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