Nickel +P cases for 9 Major

[RippinSVT]

Anybody tried using nickel cases in 9 Major?  Generally speaking I hate nickel cases, but I got 6k for cheap and processed them on my 1050 (which sucked because you can imagine there was a ton of .380, 9x18 Mak, steel, and aluminum in the batch).  It's a mixture of headstamps...standard, +P, and +P+.  I did a quick volume check and found them all around 14gr of water.  Prior experience shows that nickel cases are brittle and prone to cracking, so these would only be used once.  The main objective, since I have 6k of these things processed, is to put all my Major in nickel so it's easily discernible from my minor Bianchi and Steel loads that I load in brass in much larger quantities.  6K USPSA major loads will last me a few years whereas I'm shooting probably 40K+ annually in minor for my primary sports.  Anybody have any intel about good/bad experiences in nickel for 9 Major?

[echotango]

I load them all the time. I have thousands mixed in and have never had an issue.

[adamge]

That's what my father and I did.  We set aside all our nickel 9 brass for a couple years, filled a big jug, and then loaded them all in 9 major.  Worked fine.

 

BTW after reloading nickels a few times the nickel starts to wear off and they turn into regular brass cases.

[Bdh821]

You must be talking about Speer Gold Dot +P 9mm matching headstamp?  I've shot about 4000 casing of it in my open gun. So 115s 9.0hs6 at 1.165"... Anyway, I specifically bought this brass to not pick it up. The little amount of brass I've picked up, I find about 1 or 2 casing split out of 100. That being said, just shoot it and leave it. 

[RippinSVT]

Thanks for the responses.  It's a lot of Speer, Winchester, Federal standard, Federal +P, and Federal +P+, with several other headstamps mixed in like WCC, Hornady, etc.  I pretty well plan to leave it on the ground during matches.