RE: Encore Help?!
I had an extremely finicky 2506 barrel for an encore that just refused to shoot anything except 120gr winchester and 117 Federal premium loads. The 117gr load would shoot under an inch and the 120gr load would shoot about 1 1/4-2" but anything else I tried to shoot thru it wouldn' t group better than 4" and hornady light magnums wouldn' t stay inside 8" . I sent that barrel down the road. I would try selling it and getting a nice custom barrel for it, Virgin valley, bullberry, on target technology, or similar. The encores are very nice and of the several barrels that I had it was the only one that gave me such fits. I had a 223 barrel that would shoot .5-.75" all day with winchester 50gr Ballistic silivertips. Another fix sometimes is to get one of the hanger bar forend mounts and better forend. There is a lot of nice work you can do to a encore to make it shoot with the best of them.