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Funny you should mention the Encore.  I bought one of those out of Gibsons in Lawton as a BP in 50 Caliber.  That's the only gun I have never been able to shoot.  I ran every type of bullet I could find at Murfs in Duncan, balls, every weight of sabot ML they had, don't remember exactly amount of powders i tried.  If I recall correctly I used like a 30" by 30" target to try to capture shots from that gun at 100 yards.  Round balls were the worst.  I first tried open sights.  Moved to optics.  I put a Nikon something or other on it and that just showed me how bad I or the gun was shooting.  I was at the SCRAP Range at Duncan trying some new powder to see if that might help.  That gun was shooting so bad I was afraid someone was going to come out to the range and see me shooting that poorly.  I took it home cleaned it as best as I could and took it to Lawton and sold the entire shooting match minus powder to Uncle Sams Pawnshop for I think 200.00 dollars.  That was the craziest thing I have ever seen a gun do.  I really think I would have stood better odds of shooting around a corner with it than putting a round in a ten ring at 100 yards.  I have heard several people speak highly of them and they love the different gun barrel thing.  And seems to be pretty popular on hunting shows a few years back to.  I imagine that an Encore would be a fairly lite model for 375H&H.  I remember mine was impressively light for shoulder fired rifle.  Wow sitting here thinking that gun has got to be a bruiser! 


I must say you have some interesting rifles from the sounds of it.  I was going to build my first AR when I retired.  I had decided to build a 6.5 Grendel but lost interest in it after having so much issue with getting good quality parts.  I was looking to do a fairly nice build but parts were crazy to get ordered.  Prices, availability of gun related items, must be quite a pain in the a$$ for somebody who is just getting into shooting sports.  I know it turned me off of building one and I have been around shooting sports for awhile.  It is nice to have the experience of how to tame those types of rifle rounds.  I watched several videos of different brakes and their effects on rifles.  Amazing technology.


There is probably a good amount of truth on the bliss statement...


If so inclined here's a link to a Alum Gas Check posting I got going over on Cast Boolits...

http://castboolits.gunloads.com/showthread.php?240863-Using-Alum-for-Gas-Checks-and-Alum-Oxide


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