[billt]

One more question. Does this gun have a hammer block safety? By that I mean if you are cocking the hammer with a round in the chamber, and your finger slips off the hammer spur, will the gun fire? Or does your finger have to be depressing the trigger when the hammer falls?

 

[billt]

You're the second person I've been acquainted with who purchased an Encore without seeming to understand what they were getting into......

I'm not sure about having anything like a "hammer block safety"...

So, just to be clear..... I don't know, "what I'm getting into". But you are. Yet you cannot even answer a simple question pertaining to it's basic operation. Thanks for all of your "expertise".

 

[billt]

Congrats on your encore purchase. I hope it is as accurate as I am sure it should be. I don't have any experience with Encores, but I love my Contenders. Question as to how to remove rear sight has already been answered, but I thought I'd tell you that as far as scope mounts, I've always used Weaver's 92A on my contenders with a lot of success without a lot of expense. Don't know if this mount will fit an Encore, but I am sure that Weaver makes a mount for it. By the way, what barrel length did you get? One of my first was a 10" in 30-30.................... Recoil was a lot less than pleasant.

Mine is a 15" barrel in Stainless, with the black hard rubber furniture. I'm really looking forward to cranking it up. With only 1" less barrel than a lot of 16" rifles in .308, I won't be experiencing much loss of velocity. And a lot of the slower burning powders should work well. I'll be interested to try out my favorite handload of 42.0 Grains of Varget behind the 168 Gr, Sierra Matchking bullet.

 

[billt]

Just a quick camera picture of the gun.

 

[billt]

Yeah, but you have the gun IN YOUR HANDS...and still can't tell what model it is or whether or not it has the safety feature you're asking about!

Point being, some folks need to know that kind of stuff before they buy something. Didn't mean to offend.

Why, you don't. Stop with all your petty nonsense. You're just trying to make noise. If you ask most ANY gun enthusiast what a Thompson Center Contender is, they will reply a single shot, break action handgun with interchangeable barrels. Regardless of what model they own or don't own. And they would be correct, simply because that describes the whole platform. Yeah, like most any other gun, there have been different variants of it through the years. Contender, Contender G2, Encore Pro Hunter, etc. So what?

They all fall into the same category. All you're doing is picking fly $h!t out of pepper, trying to play the model and terminology game. And then have the audacity to criticize me for asking if the gun has a hammer block safety or not. When you, who supposedly has all of this "experience" with the platform, cannot even answer the question. I doubt if you even know what a hammer block safety even is. Now please don't go away mad.... Just go away.

 

[billt]

Just in case anyone is interested, it does. It took me all of 5 minutes to look it up. I'll have to remember that next time, before I waste time asking all of these overly critical, "Internet experts". Who try to dazzle me with the sheer tonnage of what they don't know. ​

https://www.tcarms.com/pdfs/uploads/manuals/TC_Enc_ProHunter_Pistol_Spec_Sheet.pdf​

"It features a patented (Patent #5680722) automatic hammer block safety with a bolt​

interlock,....."

 

[billt]

Here are a couple of You Tube videos showing the .308 Encore being fired. It seems quite controllable. I have 2 Magnum Research BFR's in both .45-70, as well as .500 S&W Magnum, so I can't see it being any worse than those. My Remington XP-100 in .35 Remington is also very controllable. I'm really looking forward to shooting this gun!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVl9m4TArlQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awDjkfOdRI8

 

[billt]

Just for the record- (chapter 19), the "Contender" has a different and dangerous trigger arrangement than the later Encore.
Under one very specific circumstance, a Contender can shoot you in the chest. All seven I know of were fatal.

Jack, Could you elaborate a bit on this? This is the first I've heard of it. And I have to admit it seems a bit strange how a single shot pistol can shoot you in the chest???

 

[billt]

Jack has done a few laps around the track concerning legal matters involving guns. He has no cause or reason to lie. I trust what he says because several courts have and do. That said, my Encore Pro Hunter will never see the field or a holster. It will be strictly a range gun. Hopefully, very LONG range!