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Posts: 21 | Location: Ridgelines of the Roanoke Valley | Registered: 22 June 2016Reply With Quote
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My big boy is a SSK .416 Taylor Encore. With SSKs big break, it's not that brutal to shoot, but boy, does it shoot. Taken 3 elephants, lion, 2 Cape buff, 900# roan. All off hand. All 1 shot except one elephant.
Also have 2 SSK .375/.284 XPs. Super accurate, easy to shoot. Did a eland, hippo with one shot, and 100+ deer out to 350 yds. All the deer dropped.


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Posts: 246 | Location: eastern WV | Registered: 01 December 2011Reply With Quote
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Got any videos of the Elephants or pic's of any of the exotic game?
I would love to shoot that 416 T. encore just to say I had.

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Posts: 1836 | Location: Semo | Registered: 31 May 2002Reply With Quote
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In 2020-21 we made 5 more 600 Nitro Encores pistols. People sat at home during the panic reading the internet looking for bad ideas.
I still won’t shoot it.

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Posts: 1223 | Location: Arizona | Registered: 09 January 2005Reply With Quote
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I have great insurance but even after seeing someone shoot the 416T or especially the 600 Nitro in an Encore pistol I probably would chicken out.

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Posts: 1836 | Location: Semo | Registered: 31 May 2002Reply With Quote
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Biggest I have is the 375 Chey-Tac.
https://youtu.be/SpvoURwOkSM
https://youtu.be/TpDUHbA0Qp0


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Posts: 827 | Location: Wyoming | Registered: 11 July 2000Reply With Quote
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In Encore I have the following: 470 Capstick, 458 Lott, 416 Remington Magnum, 416 Taylor and a 375 H&H Magnum. Also at one time or another had a 458 Winchester Magnum and a 416 Rigby.
 
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Honestly you guys are way tougher than me, I probably wouldn't even be able to even get those boomers sighted in.

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Posts: 1836 | Location: Semo | Registered: 31 May 2002Reply With Quote
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I've got a JD Jones 470 Nitro Encore. Not the biggest ever done, but it's pretty spicy.

Tony

 
Posts: 132 | Location: Inola, OK | Registered: 08 July 2011Reply With Quote
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I will stick to my “puny” Linebaugh .500 Linebaugh thank you
 
Posts: 759 | Location: Tallahassee, FL | Registered: 11 December 2004Reply With Quote
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recoil can be mitigated

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Posts: 21 | Location: Ridgelines of the Roanoke Valley | Registered: 22 June 2016Reply With Quote
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I've got a .45-70 barrel for my contender.

I also have a .30-06 Encore.

The .45-70 is fun to shoot.

I've shot 5 or so rounds out of the encore. I could feel ligaments moving in my wrist with some hornady heavy magnum ammo.

It has no muzzle brake or porting.

I have no issue shooting .50 BMG/.470 NE/.416 hunting arms from the shoulder.

I have no real use for the .30-06 as a pistol. I brought it with the idea of using it for hunting, but practically its not useful to me. I get close enough that a .300 BLK or traditional revolver round does the job if I want to hunt with a handgun.
 
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You can reload using Trail Boss and enjoy your '06
or get an extension or brake added to use as carbine
That's a lot of powder to burn in 15" of barrel
Lemme know if you tire of it!
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Posts: 21 | Location: Ridgelines of the Roanoke Valley | Registered: 22 June 2016Reply With Quote
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Saw a 16 inch 50 BMG at a local Gun Store last weekend and it didn't have a butt stock on it but it may have just not had the butt stock mounted on it but there wasn't one lying around to suggest that. It looked like it may have been a single shot Noreen but not sure.

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How long do the scopes on those guns last?
 
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Posts: 21 | Location: Ridgelines of the Roanoke Valley | Registered: 22 June 2016Reply With Quote
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I have an Encore 270 Winchester cut to 16 1/2” to fit in a small Pelican case. Cut barrel and replaced front sight.
Done for a planned West Virginia bear hunt with a friend and his Hillbilly (their words) neighbors. I can put gun and clothes in the case, 270 ammo can be had anywhere.
 
Posts: 1223 | Location: Arizona | Registered: 09 January 2005Reply With Quote
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A buddy bought a T.C. in 30-30 back in the 70s + was always tormenting us all with his bastardization of the Dirty Harry diatribe. He would hold his TC + go "this is the most powerful handgun, etc., etc., You gotta ask yourself, did he fire one or none."
 
Posts: 4103 | Location: Austin,Texas | Registered: 08 April 2006Reply With Quote
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Originally posted by Norman Conquest:
A buddy bought a T.C. in 30-30 back in the 70s + was always tormenting us all with his bastardization of the Dirty Harry diatribe. He would hold his TC + go "this is the most powerful handgun, etc., etc., You gotta ask yourself, did he fire one or none."


I have no clue what this guy did, but a lot of folks shoot fairly regularly with specialty pistols in those chamberings, and larger.

I have a 224 Valkyrie, 6.5 Grendel, 7x30 Waters and a 30-30AI on my G-2 pistol


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Posts: 827 | Location: Wyoming | Registered: 11 July 2000Reply With Quote
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