Cast bullets are much more economical than jacketed bullets for practice with handguns. Although they arn't recomended for use in Glock pistols,as they lead the barrels heavily. I use them anyway but I clean the lead out often while shooting. They work fine in most other handguns. The heavy hard cast hunting type bullets designed for handguns and rifles may cost as much or more than good jacketed bullets,but for their intended use they are hard to beat. The problem is some guns just want shoot them accurately. You've probabily heard how tuff a big hog can be, a heavy hard cast bullet from a 45-70 or 444 will take the tuffness right out of them. They will penetrate far better than any soft point will!