Thompson Encore???
#21
Fork Horn
Join Date: Dec 2008
Posts: 103
So if a rifle doesnt hold a 2 inch group its automatically the rifle????? Hmmm...seems to me there are many many more varibales to it then just that...ie...ammo...shooter....scope. I shoot fairly well and I have handed guys my rilfes that shoot well and watched them not be able to hold a 2 inch group...and in turn I have shot groups with "known to be junk guns".
Using your logic I guess all those Perrazzi shot guns that dont break at least 24 birds in a round a trap must be junk too?
Using your logic I guess all those Perrazzi shot guns that dont break at least 24 birds in a round a trap must be junk too?
#22
Fork Horn
Join Date: Oct 2009
Location: 5a
Posts: 183
So if a rifle doesnt hold a 2 inch group its automatically the rifle????? Hmmm...seems to me there are many many more varibales to it then just that...ie...ammo...shooter....scope. I shoot fairly well and I have handed guys my rilfes that shoot well and watched them not be able to hold a 2 inch group...and in turn I have shot groups with "known to be junk guns".
Using your logic I guess all those Perrazzi shot guns that dont break at least 24 birds in a round a trap must be junk too?
Using your logic I guess all those Perrazzi shot guns that dont break at least 24 birds in a round a trap must be junk too?
#23
All these people have offered ways to improve the accuracy of a T/C, my logic stands that it should not be necessary to do all of this to a $600.00 or more rifle to get it to shoot better than a 2" group. It's not a personal attack on anyone, it's calling out a flaw in a tool that has been over hyped and well marketed.
Next time the urge comes on me to tinker with a gun I will go to a gunshow and get an old Remington 700 with a pristine bore. I will float the barrel, bed the action, put a quality scope on it and turn it into a <1 moa shooter for much less than the price of an Encore with a good scope.
#24
Spike
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: oakwood virginia USA
Posts: 91
encore
I took a drink of the Kool Aid once and bought one......I was dissappointed....now I am an accuracy freak since going to sniper school in the army and I thought it wasn't very accurate compared to any other rifle and muzzleloader I have owned.....worst shooting gun in both forms I have owned.......buy a quality bolt action rifle from Savage or Remington and buy a CVA Elkhorn bolt action MZ or find any Knight MZ left on the shelf and you will be happier in the end....but if you want to look like a TV personality...go ahead.......pay some TV salary! Either way have fun.
#25
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Jan 2008
Posts: 1,320
I have shot TC products for many years, never an Encore but plenty of G2s and Contenders. It is definitely a tinkerers gun and personally I don't mind at all....in fact I expect it anytime I purchase a new one. I call them winter projects. No different than the guy who goes out and buys a new Remington Mtn. rifle for $1000 and immediately replaces the stock with a $285 Ti stock for it I suppose.
I own alot of very accurate bolt guns and I own several TC carbine rifles that are every bit as accurate and in some cases more so. They do require a learning curve for shooting, handloading and rifle setup.
They are for some and they are definitely not for others.