Doesn't sound like nuts to me.........more like justifying a new toy (not a bad thing IMHO)!

The Encores are a nice system - but do you really want to start from scratch this close to your hunt??

If in your shoes, if I was REALLY concerned about the weather, I would just convert the Knight to the 209 primers and go from there. This would probably cause you to have to tweak your load some, but probably less than 10gr either way.......something easily handled in an hour or 2 at the range. Or you could just use one of the rain-proofing kits for cap-type guns.........a little rubber balloon over the muzzle and a tight plastic sleeve that slips over the cap/nipple interface. These work pretty good, though the sleeve over the cap will melt if fired - slowing a second shot considerably.

Also the 3-50gr pellet load is overrated - most of the powder just blows out the muzzle unused. You'll get just as much out of 120gr loose powder load - especially using those 295gr PowerBelts.......as 150gr is just too much powder to keep them accurate at the longer ranges you probably want. If 125gr of CleanShot (equilavent to 120gr of Pyro) will push a 400gr PR sabot out of my Knight USAK past 100yds with sub-MOA accuracy, why even bother with 150gr loads?


Edited by - Mark whiz on 11/14/2002 21:55:53