I use berry's plated in my 30-30. Granted, they are plated a little heavier than pistol bullets but I haven't been able to shear it off with a lee factory crimp die. I crimped some as much as possible on purpose to try and I couldn't. I fired some into a clay bank and i couldn't even tell where they'd been crimped so I really wouldn't worry about shearing the plating.
What I MIGHT worry about is if you plan on using them in a pistol caliber lever action. It's a lot harder to control the crimp with a pistol caliber factory crimp die because it depends on having uniform case length. Longer cases will have more crimp, shorter ones less. Who trims pistol brass? I don't.
That said, I've been having good success crimping hard cast lead bullets out of the cannelure because my rossi 92 likes them a little longer than seating in the cannelure. They don't seem to move and I've made dummy rounds I've cycled about a dozen times.
Berry's bullets are plated hard cast. I plan on buying a bunch of the Berry's (without a cannelure) to try and I'm pretty sure they'll work fine with a firm crimp and won't shed the plating.
Here's a 30-30 berry's I crimped as hard as I could with a lee factory crimp die that I shot into a clay bank. I can't see where it was crimped. The plating that shedded was from where it hit a stone.
They're cheap, don't worry about the cannelure and do some experimenting, that's what I've been doing. It's fun!
