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Offline Qtip

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Stock breakage???????
« on: December 24, 2005, 09:56:45 AM »
I was reading on "another" forum under the single shots thread and a well known gun writer made the statement that he didn't like Encores because several of his friends (and he claims to have winessed at least one) had problems with the buttstock breaking and said he didn't like the design and it was prone to breaking. That's funny; as in all the Encore threads I've read here and on other forums that is the very first time I have ever heard complaints about buttstocks breaking. I have never heard of it from many people I know that shoot them or from dealers that sell them. ( I'm talking wood here of course)
Anybody here have any comments??

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« Reply #1 on: January 02, 2006, 05:13:52 AM »
I had one break on me.  Not from shooting though.  I was muzzleloader hunting elk in Colorado and slipped and fell on the gun when it was slung over my shoulder.  I landed on the gun and cracked the stock by the pistol grip.  I cost me a trip back to camp for my back-up gun and the first hours on the opening day hunt.  I think a synthetic would have been OK in this situation.  I will never take a wooden stocked encore againon a hunt.  Especially now that I have a synthetic thumbhole camo that I absolutley love.
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« Reply #2 on: January 03, 2006, 04:13:41 AM »
You're not hearing about problems because TC replaces them at no charge.  I had 2 walnut stocks crack due to recoil on 300 WinMag and 1 crack in 209X50.  Finally had it replaced with Hardwoods synthetic.  TC replace Stcok and both forends.
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Re: Stock Breakage
« Reply #3 on: January 03, 2006, 06:11:45 AM »
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You're not hearing about problems because TC replaces them at no charge.  I had 2 walnut stocks crack due to recoil on 300 WinMag and 1 crack in 209X50.  Finally had it replaced with Hardwoods synthetic.  TC replace Stcok and both forends.


6 Encore frames and six stocks 0 cracked or broken stocks. I even have a 416 Rigby barrel on one and it is doing fine.  :D
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« Reply #4 on: January 03, 2006, 02:31:43 PM »
I had read posts of others awhile back on this site having problems with the wood stocks on their Encore muzzleloaders cracking as a result of the loading process.  For me the comb on the synthetic stock that came with my 209x50 is set too low to achieve proper eye alignment with my scope.  I switched to a wood buttstock with a higher comb.  To prevent cracking and stiffen the rifle, I bored out the pistol grip, installed an aluminum pillar between the drawbolt and tang, and fiberglass bedded the tang and frame into the stock.  Fits like a glove and no sign of cracking after almost two hundred rounds loaded and fired.
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