Well......as I said and Shato and MA have touched on.......in the immortal words of Harry....."A man's got to know his limitations!!! That day I probably ran 20 rounds through the two .338RUM's. Was warm as usual here in TX and barrels get hot and stay hot. Those were my best groups but the other groups were with other loads too.
I am looking forward to trying the new Barnes MRX in .338/225 grains.

We usually shoot a lot or rounds and I shoot those two first. Favorite for plinking is my buddies M1 Garande. That thing is a blast. I will say that shooting the "smokepoles" are fun too. You get to adjust your load on each shot if necessary.

As for the Encore's, I also have the .223 barrel and it is a sweet shooter. Our group tends to go overboard on occasion, and as we have really liked everything about the Encore's......triggers adjust down to a really sweet 2.5 lbs.......one of us has bought the new .204 (fun gun), 25-06 (perfect deer gun and he is touching holes with every shot), and now he is trying to get a .300 Mag in it (hard to get right now) as he likes it so much he wants to just have the one gun for everything. Now understand he already had most of these guns in other, older versions. So there might be just a little "gun addiction" at work here too.

Anyway........we'll keep you advised. I haven't posted any pictures of this last fall's Co elk hunt....mainly because it was just a camping trip as we saw bubkus! But we aren't complaining one bit, we camped at 10k in the Rockies and had one hell of a week and I wouldn't trade it for anything.

EKM.....although we continue to add-on, subtract and improve our camping accomodations, our most significant addition involved an old collapsable chair, a piece of 5/8's plywood, and an old toilet seat!!!![:-] It truly is the simply things in life......