How I clean my Encore:
1. Break down the gun so you just have the barrel. You'll be suprised how much blowback you get on the underside of the barrel.
2. I find a breech plug brush essential, for scrubbing crud out of the threads. And a bore brush.
3. Hot water and little bit o' lemon scented Joy. A plastic bottle full of plain, hot water with a "squirt" top.
4. Throw the breech plug in the soapy water and let soak. Squirt some gun oil of your choice on the face of the action where the firing pin is and let sit to loosen the crud.
5. Squirt some hot water down the barrel. Then, I dip my bore brush in the soapy water and scrub away. Rinse with hot water.
6. Dip the bore brush in the soapy water and work up and down the barrel a few times. Rinse with your squirt bottle of clear water.
7. Wrap a dry patch around the breech plug brush and dry and swab out that area of the rifle. Swab 2-3 dry patches down the bore and follow with one with alcohol patch. Let sit for a few minutes while you wipe down the exterior portions of your gun. I use pipe cleaners to attack that "hole" between the barrel and recoil lug.
8. Fish your breech plug out of the water, rinse and scrub clean the threads, Blow the water out the flash channel and dry. Apply the breech plug grease to both the plug and the threads in the barrel.

That's how I do it. Currently using CLP Breakfree