Man, my camera makes these look like ****, but they are shinny!!! Cast bullet that I started out with for comparison.
They were plated to .310"-.314" then sized to .308". Started weight was 128 grains and now they are between 157-160 grains. I'll load some up and shoot this weekend.
This round of plating started Friday! Finally finished up today. What a cluster it was. First off, don't use any metal for any part of the setup that will be close to the plating solution. It'll either get covered in copper or, in my case, dissolve. The four prongs that I had sticking through the bowl to hold onto it, disintegrated, and kept the bowl from turning late Friday night. Stopped the process, cleaned up the bullets to keep them from getting corroded and called it an evening. I was too busy Saturday to mess with it. Come Sunday, I found a way to get the bowl turning, but then my circulation pump stopped working. Now I couldn't heat the water or keep it agitated. My 5 foot 1/4" piece of copper tubing that I was using for an anode was all but dissolved. Added another piece and just said to heck with it and let it run with no heat, no circulation. I periodically pulled a few bullets and measured the amount of plating and it took until this morning to finally get them where they would be usable in my 300 BLK.
I threw them in the tumbler and they really shined up. Sized down to .308", tumbled for a few more minutes to clean off the lube and took the picture seen above.