Many, many years ago I tried the Rainier plated bullets that were being sold through Dillon. I was most concerned with accuracy at the time. The accuracy was very disappointing. Lead bullets are much less expensive and I never found cleaning the barrel to be that much of a chore. Hard cast bullets of less than maximum loadings are very accurate out of my S&W 629, but I load copper jacketed too when I want to boost the velocity. If you like plated bullets from Berrys, then hooray, but as for me, I'll stick with swaged, cast and copper jacketed, in that order (volume of use).