I am seriously considering buying a thomson/center encore rifle. I think it would be great to practice year round w/a .223 barrel(cheap ammo) and buy a .270 barrel for deer season.Don't know why i didnt think of it before! Only problem, I have NO experience with this gun. How accurate is it? How long does it take to change barrels? When you put the barrel back on, will it still be sighted in?

P.S. I will NOT use this gun as a muzzleloader. Just in case anyone asked.

Edited by - Higg on 10/25/2002 18:41:56

I'm saving up right now for an Encore. I have done alot of reading and asking about this firearm and have heard nothing but great things. The change from one barrel to the other will only take a minute and you should be either pretty close on zero or on zero after changing barrels. I'm wanting to get either a .270 or .308 at first then move on to the .223 and a 12ga. The 1,000's of barrel options for this gun is just totally awesome with anything from a .410/.45LC to 300winmag. Right now Natchezz Shooting Supply has their barrels on sell for $200.

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I am planning on buying a Encore in the near future. I have shot a friends and it is awesome.

I bought an Encore in 30-06 and it shoots good I sent it to virgin valley custom guns for a trigger job so I think it will do better with a lighter trigger 2# Idont think the zero will change from changing barrels I love mine

I got a Encore last year and i love it i got the .270 barrel for it and i shoot better groups with it then my bolt action remington. Anyone who doesn't have one should get one you wont be dissapointed!

Good luck Hunting

i never shot one but not that u mention it i mite think about it as a next gun...i want something small(dad has a ruger #1 and i love the small size) and i can justify buying it by getting another barrel in a diffrent caliber...get a 223 for groundhogs and such and a deer caliber...my next deer caliber is going to be one of the monsters though...atleast 300win mag...the way i hunt the deer have to drop or not go 50 yds or they can be stolen quickly(ive heard tons of stories about my friends wounding one tracking it to find someone gutting it sayin he killed it...or someone shooting it on its death run and claiming it..and i dont need that...i know shot placement is the thing but a bigger bullet has more power lol..i think after i set up a slug gun thats what i might do...how much does one run with jkust one barrel?..also when you are changing calibers the scope is probally going to be a bit off because of the diffrent ballistics right?

I bought a encore this past spring I wanted one with a 7mm rem. mag barrel but my gunsmith couldn't find a 7mm so I settled for a 300 winmag. I do my own reloading for all my guns and when I started reloading for this one I ran into accuracy problems. I had a gunsmith who is a good friend of mine check the headspace and he said that it had to much so I sent back to t/c and told them about it and they checked and said it wasn't enough, so they supposebly fixed the problem so when I got it back I went back to the range it still wouldn't shoot a decent group for nothing. So, she went back to t/c again and this time they said that they recrowned the barrel that it was all out of wack. I haven't shot it since I have got it back only because the scope that I had on it I put it on my 308 for my up coming deer season. But when deer season is over I will either have another scope or I will do the changing thing again and I will shoot the heck out of it to see how it does. Ok, I recently picked up a .45 cal. mzl barrel for this same gun. Now it shoots great.

Robert Petty

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Money spent on a Encore is money well spent! I picked one up when they first came on the market. I own a &quot;few&quot; barrels and all are accurate. A few minuts of you time and you can go from a 15&quot; .223 handgun to a 26&quot; 25-06 rifle. I have taken a woodchuck at 503 yards with the 25-06...and I just changed over from another barrel without re-sighting! One thing I would advise is a trigger job...most are sent from the factory at 4.5lb plus. www.virginvalleyguns.com did my trigger and made me a barrel...<img src=icon_smile_big.gif border=0 align=middle>

Hunt Safe!

Jack

Did virgin valley do a good job on your trigger? I should be geting mine back from them any day their web paige said a five day turn around but they have had mine two weeks hope they did a good job