Berry's lists their lead hardness at 20 on the links above. That's pretty hard cast in itself.

In the thousands of Berry's I've shot into all sorts of targets, never once had an incident of fragmentation of the boolit/plating. Often have marveled at how well they perform in all calibers I've used up to the 1250 line....and with most of my recipes it would be hard to get faster than that.

I too have had incidents of reloading errors nicking the plating & result in discarded round.

Unsure accuracy has been much of a measurable issue as nearly all my pistol rounds are at the short distance range games. For feeding my 380 seems to like plated better, as did Glocks until I finally rid myself of those demons. Somehow I get the impression my 10m like plated better than cast and poly coated better than either. There's an odd smell with the (EDIT: *poly-coated*) ignition that is annoying to me though.

I'm even beginning to think Berry's target hollow nose actually DOES give me better groups.....

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