Thank you again Sir Ron. I have been using PC bullets for a number of years now in my revolvers, no gas check there, but at these higher velocities, it seemed that a belt and suspenders approach is what I saw most often in this thread. I would like to get higher velocities to match my hunting loads, so will see if I can source some GC, PC bullets at harder than 18. If not, then it sounds like 2000fps is what I need to shoot for.