

If the bbls are in good condition (no rust or damaged crowns) you should easily get 2" groups at 50 meters. It is doubtful that you have worn out bbls. I have seen iron sights from the factory that had screws too long too but it is much more common to see it in scope bases. Once you have that screw good back it out and do the same thing with the next until you have all 4 the right length. If you can shorten the screw 1 thread and try again. You should not be able to wiggle the base AT ALL. You can do this by loosening all the screws and tightening one down all the way. Make sure your base screws are not bottoming out before your base is tight. Will certainly kick loose a mount that was not tightened properly. The 44 and 30-30 are kickers, especially in the 10" bbl lengths. If you have a gross amount of slop in either the only cure is an over sized pin.Īlso check your scope mounts if you are using a scope.

The pin will probably slid through with no resistance but if you can get noticeable side to side movement that is bad. It should not have any noticeable wiggle in either the bbl hole or the frame holes. If you have some slop in the lockup check your hinge pin. This is probably not the cause because you said your having problems with all 3 bbls but it is worth checking. Are the locking bolts on your bbls all blued? Over sized bolts are left in the white by TC. This would not be caused by stretching but by under/over sized locking bolts.

How is the bbl lockup? If you get any movement at all when it is closed that can be an accuracy killer. Extreme cases will show maybe a 1/8" stripe. Stretching will look like a light line in the blueing. That is the notch that is just in front of the breech face. The stretching will occur in the cut that allows the locking bolt rollers to pass down into the table. You can see this by looking down into the internals of your frame when the bbl is off. To check and see if your frame is stretched you need to look for a "stretch" mark inside the frame. You open and close the Encores break-action by simply squeezing the outside bottom of the trigger guard toward the buttstock/grip, after which the action opens and with an extractor you can remove the cartridge.003 is not an uncommon amount of frame/bbl gap. The Encores trigger mechanism was designed to be stronger, and the break-action was developed to be easier to open. The TC encore was first released in 1983, and uses a slightly different trigger mechanism than it’s original predecessor the Contender. The Encores single-shot, break-action design brought unparalleled accuracy, especially in the hand gun space, which allowed for a pistol to have comparable rifle like accuracy. The Thompson Center Encore’s popularity came with the emergence of long range target shooting and handgun hunting. Perfectly suited to hand down from generation to generation of gun enthusiasts. Truly the TC Encore gun barrel offers you incredible flexibility, and quality that will last you for years and year. And what makes the TC Encore special is that all it takes is to switch out the barrel is to remove two forend screws and the hinge pin, the attached scope or the open sights stay sighted in so there’s no need to reinstall them later when you’re ready to go back. Be it a TC Encore muzzleloader, shotgun, centerfile rifle, pistol barrel, or big bore brush gun, these TC Encore barrels offer superior accuracy and durability. Giving you the flexibility to do whatever your shooting or hunting demands. The TC Encore or Thompson Center Encore barrels offer some of the best, most accurate shooting of any rifle barrel in it’s class.
