Plated bullets are TMJ. And TMJ are plated.Yup reduced power plated bullets IMO are ideal for steel.
The only issues we have had in the past is with TMJ bullets. Total metal jacketed bullets or completely encased jacketed bullets.
Well that's what eye protection is for. Jacket ricochets are common. Semi jacket, FMJ, hollow point jacket fragments come back frequently.
If your standing in the wrong spot at the wrong time it usually just amounts to a quick little sting to the cheek or neck.
FMJ basically takes a disc of copper and swages it over the bullet, nose first, crimping at the base. JHP works the same, but it starts from the base and crimps at the nose. So I believe that anything which is TMJ is actually plated.
Whatever, I'll stop whining now. It's their rules, and I'm sure they have their reasons.
Flyer, we stopped shooting pins for exactly that reason. We had someone hit at 50' hard enough in the sternum to leave a really good welt. If he'd been hit the face, we'd have been calling an ambulance.