these are the first bullets done with my new .311 swage die that i made today.. just got the die heat treated and polished about 3hr ago.. these are not as pretty as they could be as i used my arbor press to test everything out and they have not been polished yet. i just gotta make the cores a little shorter for 125gr (these are 130gr .308 cores and are a little long) and back the punch out a hair to prevent the little copper extrusion on the tips but other than that it works great..
i been meaning to make a .311 die and was really trying to make another .308 die but the metal grew a lot more than i expected during the heat treating so it ended up becoming a .311 die.. the stupid thing grew over 0.005in in the bore. it was a different bolt manufacturer than i usually use so i figured it would act different. but it not a total screw up, i got a nice .311 die that i needed for making bullets for my SKS..