Well, I have been down this road with encore. I am not sure I would do it again. I had a ML for a while and sold the barrel to my brother. Ok, I found a sale on 204 barrels, so I got one. I also got a walnut stock and forarm. Didn't shoot well at all. So got the forarm fitted, still not great, so had the forearm pillar bedded so no contact with barrel, little better but not great. Ok, so had the hinge pin hole milled to match the barrel pefectly and oversized pin in. Now it shoots .7MOA regularly 5 shots. But it cost me more than I planned.

Now every barrel I get I have to take to the gunsmith to have him mill out the hole to match my oversized hinge.

The hinge is the weak part of the guns design. And it needs to be real tight.