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Empty bean cans are more fun and won't ricochet a round ball or jacketed bullet at 7 or 25 yards. I've shot metalic silhoutte competition for a bunch a years and still have a set of five 25 yard chickens for muzzleloaders. Pure lead does flatten out and drop when you hit thick steel plate or targets. Alloy or wheel weights are harder and I suppose could ricochet. Actually anything hit right can ricochet...so be careful regardless.
I have been hit in the toe of my boot by lead balls ricocheting off a round object like a gong. Also I found not to use Yugoslavian WWII steel jacketed 9mm boolits at an indoor range...(ya should a seen the sparks) I stopped shootin' them outta my Uzi when one nailed my boot pretty hard.
went and bought some of their lead hand loads. wish I'd a thought to safe some a them for collecting.
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