"I han an Omega that was the greatest shooting MZ I have ever seen in my life. The problem was you could not get a second shot down the barrel with a hammer-and I am not joking. The barrel would not take a second shot."

My Encore is the same way when using the 250 grain SST in the short black sabot along with Pyrodex or 777.When using JSG, the reload goes down the bore hard just like they do with a clean barrel. This gun is hard to load but shoots better than most center fire rifles.It does not like theSuper Glideand crush rib sabots, itputs the bullets all over the place. With the Hornady Low Drag sabots the groups are acceptable but barely so, about 3" at 100 yards.