Are these ruined?

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They look good. They will group great. I've pulled lots of bullets, once I had to pull 200 because I loaded them up with the wrong powder. After pulling them I just reloaded them and had no ill effects.

If you are giving them away the new owner will be able to shoot them quite well so go ahead and get the other 90 done.
 
I'd use them to warm up the barrel before a session. I usually use some old bulk ammo to fire a few shots before I zero. I'm always zeroing or confirming my zero when I shoot and I don't want to waste any of my good rounds on nothing so if I had them I would save them for the first few shots where I don't make any adjustments.
 
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Good for practicing offhand at 100, they will shoot better than I do enough that it won’t change the score much. Further out or more supported positions you will likely see a difference.
 
Measure them. If still in tolerence, and round, use them like new bullets, The crimped portion probably won't have any effect on accuracy...
 
I could be wrong but that looks more like a crimp ring than a collet ring. I've never seen a collet ring that deep. As others have said, I wouldn't use them for competition but for plinking they will be fine.
 
A noted gun writer did a test a number of years back in an effort to quantify the difference in accuracy of pulled vs new.
He concluded that there was none as the pulled bullets generally out shot the new!
Actually, he discovered that several flawed bullets were culled after being pulled that probably skewed the results! In favor of the pulled bullets.

Choot em!

After those bullets hit the throat and enter the rifling, the pull mark will be irrelevant.
 
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