Anybody ever shoot any of these?

I bought some to shoot in my .45 Colts and ACP's. I dug some out of the dirt bank and it looks like the forcing cone or rifling is ripping the thin jackets open.

I didn't really know that they were that thin jacketed.

Are these things junk?

I've never used them, but I'm pretty sure they're copper plated, not jacketed. It's probably pure copper with no alloying elements and its pretty soft, and only a few thousandths of an inch thick. I don't think it's fair to say they're junk, but they're more of a cast bullet with a coating, and not a jacketed bullet.

I shot a bunch of them out of my 40 as said they are a thin plated bullet.

Like the others said, they are plated, not jacketed. They should be loaded with cast bullet loading data. They have been very accurate for me.

Well I bought them to plink with mostly and to carry in my Bond Derringer. I can't find any large pistol primers any where. I finally found some Tula magnum large pistol primers.

So...I loaded the 230gr Rainer's over 8g of Unique in the .45 Colt case with a Tula magnum large pistol primer. They shoot mild and fine it seems. Thought I would see how far they penetrated and what the bullet looked like fired.

Found the copper plating rolled down like sheet metal below the rifling cut-grooves.

Was just curious what others thought of them.

Back in the late 1990's I had reloaded some in 45 acp that were used for general target shooting. I believe I still have a piece of the jacket or plating that was "hanging" in the paper target. For target/plinking there just fine.

I use them for plinking in my .50AE desert eagle and sw .500. They are great for cost effective shooting and I love them. I don't use them for hunting though. I use punch bullets for that.

I also used them for plinking.

No real thickness to the plating, but they shot almost as well as the hard cast bullets and were a lot less work to clean up after shooting. They also did not cause as much smoke when shooting indoor matches. Used quite a few in a .45 ACP for USPSA matches back when.

Good for paper.

Not so good for either anything you might want to eat or anything bigger than a coyote.

I have shot them from 357Mag at 38spl velocities and from my .40S&W and 10mm. I have tried the hollow point and fully coated versions. They are not really meant to pushed over 1200fps which is fine for most of what I do. I prefer to cast my own bullets now so I haven't shot these in awhile. They worked well for what they are. The hollow points mushroomed nicely when shot into wet pack. I believe they are fairly close to pure lead so they do expand.