I guess I got the only Encore lemon ever made by T/C. Now don't get me wrong, I like T/C products. I have a Contender Super 15 with 3 different barrels for it and it is a real tack driver. I also have 3 of their Hawken flintlocks. But I guess my Encore was a jinxed rifle. I just couldn't get it to shoot. It was in 7mm-08. I tried a bunch of different loads, changing powders, bullets (types and weights), even changed scopes and mounts.
I set it out to the factory and that didn't even work. I finally got disgusted with it cause I couldn't get any better than 2 1/2" groups with it and traded it in on a Browning A bolt.
And remember I said it was jinxed - well it was on the shop floor in the used rack for 2 weeks and got stolen from the gun shop.