I'll jump in here. Courntey sounds like you should have bought a shot gun, if 16 point deer are crawling up your tree stand. You even can get 250+ out of them if you're willing to withstand the recoil of a 3.5 inch lightfield slug. Anyways, I actually FOLLOWED T/Cs break in schedule and I can put shockwaves with relitive ease down my encores barrel.