They're easy to find in the grass. Other than that I'm not impressed with them in rifle brass. Don't mind them in handgun brass.

What about caliber conversions and wildcatting? There are probably guys writing for advice already on how to make .32-40 cases out of the upcoming .30-30 rounds from this company. 

In a serious turn that's rare for me, I doubt that this company will even end up making it for a year or so. The other oddball things that have come and gone will soon be joined by this one, I venture. So, get a couple for your cartridge collection while ya can. Put it next to the Teflon bullet you have somewhere.

Joe,  how would you know?   

probably very true John,  especially if we are breech seating with low=power/pressure in basically straight walled cases  with very little change the case at all for shot to shot.   

However,  what I am doing is using a cut down 45-70 case,  (though not cut down very much only to 1.8" overall) with mostly the 400 grain jacketed soft/flat point bullets for hunting loads.  I have a lifetime supply of those bullets, and maybe enough for whoever winds up with the rifle after I'm gone.   

   If I really get bored I may bring it down and try to shoot some "third class" matches with cast bullets if I can find a mold of equal weight and bullet profile just to see how it does at 200 yards.   but it'll basically be a hunting rifle now than MI and IN have legalized a range of big bore "pistol" cartridges in rifles for deer hunting. this will basically be the 460 S&W cartridge, but designed to use the 45-70 Rugers.458 barrel and my supply of bullets instead of the .452 pistol bullets and bore of the .$60 S&W.    {I figure if a .32 Dell and all its variations is basically a reduced capacity 32-40; a shortened 45-70 case for modern powders should work just as well  }

westerner wrote on Feb 16^th, 2017 at 2:48pm:

Joe,
Just turn you some Remington-style steel case heads, and then roll up your powder charge in nitrated papers.   

Back to the Winchester-made "John Wayne" nickel cases in 32-40, I watched Chuck Blender campaign the same couple of hundred of those cases for several years,and when I asked him about how well they lasted he looked at me kind of blankly as if to ask, "You mean they ever wear out?"  This was a good 10 years after Winchester had quit selling them, and I believe he got them when they were current production.  Keep in mind, Chuck shot a LOT!

Froggie

I can offer this for a comparison between nickel plated and brass cases. With near max loads in 357 Magnum used in my revolvers, I'm seeing the brass cases lasting much longer than nickel plated. 
When I first started shooting 357 revolvers about 6 years ago I initially bought two 50 round boxes of ammo, one each of nickel plated and brass.
Other than the original factory loads, both boxes have seen about a dozen reloads with identical near max loads of either 2400 or Unique and the same hard lead 158 gr SWC bullet. 
The nickel cases are down to less than 15, the brass has lost 6. All failures were small splits at the case mouth. That's roughly a 6:1 ratio in failure rate. 
And my 38 Special nickel cases don't last as long as brass, though I get many more reloadings out of them than the 357 Mag cases because they are mostly target loads. 

John