Sound plan. I bet you'll find your sweet spot at around 16-1800 fps. 2000fps is, to me, the level beyond which my hunting alloy starts to lead and accuracy starts to fall off. I've dinked around with alloys as hard as woodpecker lips and gotten higher speed with accuracy- but what's the point? I don't target shoot past 200 yards where high(er) velocity makes things a little easier, and like I stated before, the hunting venues I frequent don't require flatter trajectories. Besides, alloys hard enough to sustain high velocity are notoriously poor performers on game.
Powder coating? Ok for some but I'm ambivalent about it. Higher velocity without leading? Again, pointless- for my needs. Your mileage may vary. Besides I have better things to do with my time than dink around with that yet. If the stuff magically made a one MOA rifle into a half MOA rifle I would maybe reconsider, but I've seen little or no evidence of that kind of magic.
