I hope you have better luck out of your Encore ML than I did. That was going to be my new gun last year, but I tried several loads and could not find one that would work for me. Once again, I went back to my Knight (that was actually given to me by a friend and then Knight rep Steve Borsa).Wanting to shoot my Knight this year is somewhatsentimental since Steve was killed in an auto accident last month. Don't get me wrong, I love Encores, butmy MLshot like crap. I am just glad I had my Knight to fall back on. What is the weather like where you are? I am hoping the hurricane in the Gulf will bring us some relief.