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Specialty Handgun Hunting
Crazy 308 win. Encore
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<blockquote data-quote="quigley257" data-source="post: 2652949" data-attributes="member: 84442"><p>I have one of the very early Encore 308 Win barrels. I have taken a pile of animals with it. Everything from Prairie Dogs and varmints through big northern Minnesota Whitetails. It will shoot very well with a variety of bullets from 110gr V-Max for varmints up to 168gr SSTs for deer. It liked the now discontinued 130gr Sierra SSP bullets as well as the 130gr Barnes XBT. It does have one major problem. It copper fouls like no barrel I have ever owned. It will shoot well for the first 20-30 rounds, but after that accuracy falls off quickly. Not a problem for hunting, but rather inconvenient for varmint and target shooting. I actually made a DIY electrolysis barrel cleaner to remove built up copper because it would take a day or two of using traditional bore brush/patches/solvents to get all the copper out of it. If you do go the reboring route, please post your results here. I have heard of people having good results doing that and have considered doing it to my 308 barrel as well.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="quigley257, post: 2652949, member: 84442"] I have one of the very early Encore 308 Win barrels. I have taken a pile of animals with it. Everything from Prairie Dogs and varmints through big northern Minnesota Whitetails. It will shoot very well with a variety of bullets from 110gr V-Max for varmints up to 168gr SSTs for deer. It liked the now discontinued 130gr Sierra SSP bullets as well as the 130gr Barnes XBT. It does have one major problem. It copper fouls like no barrel I have ever owned. It will shoot well for the first 20-30 rounds, but after that accuracy falls off quickly. Not a problem for hunting, but rather inconvenient for varmint and target shooting. I actually made a DIY electrolysis barrel cleaner to remove built up copper because it would take a day or two of using traditional bore brush/patches/solvents to get all the copper out of it. If you do go the reboring route, please post your results here. I have heard of people having good results doing that and have considered doing it to my 308 barrel as well. [/QUOTE]
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