Recent content by pheasants

I am sure this has been hashed over multiple times before and on this forum but there are alot of threads to go through. So here is my situation. I am going antelope hunting next fall. I am going to get a barrel for my T/C encore endeavour muzzleloader. Question is should I get a .270 or 30-06...

Just a quick question. 26" or 28" barrel for the encore? My current Pro hunter muzzy is a 28" barrel and I dont mind carrying and hunting with that at all so I would imagine haveing the 28" barrel wouldn't bother me at all. Just curious if anyone really has had any accuracy issues with it...

Thanks for the reply. I am about 99% positive I am going to go with the 7mm rem mag. I have been looking at 26" encore barrels so will see how it performs with some hand loads!.

Thank you fellas! This site is a wealth of knowledge and I am pretty green when it comes to ballisticsand such. I just want the pull the trigger and the animal dies quickly! Just for a FYI I use to use 777 pellets with a 250gr Hornady SST bullet in my muzzy. I have shot lots of deer but I have...

I am really hoping to the 145gr. Barnes LRX will group well cause I really think that would be the bestmiddle gground for deer , lope and elk. Some pretty impressive numbers with that 145 grain LRX with 7mm RM velocities. And with the near 100% weight retention of the Barnes I would feel very...

Thanks johnny!

Hey fellas my first post here and first off I just want to say that this is a GREAT website and forum for shooting. I have picked up LOTS of great information here. I was born and raised in Iowa, where centerfire rifles are not allowed for deer hunting. So I have hunted some with shotgun slugs...