I have an Encore in 20 guage fully rifledand 50 cal muzzleloader. The 20 kicks as much as my Mossberg 835 12 guage. My thinking in buying the 20 was to get a light gun to carry in the woods. The drawback is the recoil. The encore with scope weighs about 7 lbs or so. My Mossberg weighs closer to 10lbs.

The Encore is very accurate with some ammo. I have invested about $150 in different slugs to see which soot well. This may be different with another barrel, but here is how mine shoots. (All groups were shot at 50 yards, five shots and I would shoot three, let the barrel cool and shoot the last two)

2" or less
Remmington Copper Solids (These actually shot about 1.5")
Winchester Partition Platinum Tips (4 shots in one group while the fifth one opened it up)
Federal Barnes Expander

2-4" Groups
Remington Core-Lokt Ultra
Remington Buckhammer
Winchester Partition Gold
Hastings
Lightfield

Over 4"
Hornady SST
Winchester BRI