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My dad recently took over using my 1st gen t/c encore. For years we have always used 2 t-7 50gtain pellets pushing a 250 grain sw. We have had mixed results with it and last year I think just about was it for me when I shot a knarly 6pt and had a terrible blood trail after looking for an hour we backed out and found him the next day approx. 200 yards from where he was shot at, bullet penciled through him. 
this year I set dad up with some of my xtp in crush rib sabots and they grouped well out to 100 yards. He's using this now with what's left of my t/7 pellets. Next year we are gonna use bh209 with the encore since it's what I use in the rest of my inlines that are capable of using it! Something that popped up when I was discussing this with him was how clean it burns, he's excited to use something he doesn't have to clean after the each shot but I did tell him "even tho it burns so clean and you can shoot anywhere between 20-30 shots without cleaning the barrel doesn't mean you should sight in like that" he argued back and forth saying the fouling won't make hat big of difference, anytime sight by my rifles in I always swab the barrel to get all the "big stuff" out. Even tho with bh209 it's very minimal but when I do this I'm trying to get an idea of how well my gun groups under "1st shot conditions" since that's what's important in the field! Am I wrong by this and wasting my time or is this good practice when trying to find the right load and best groups? Sorry for the long post [emoji854]
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this year I set dad up with some of my xtp in crush rib sabots and they grouped well out to 100 yards. He's using this now with what's left of my t/7 pellets. Next year we are gonna use bh209 with the encore since it's what I use in the rest of my inlines that are capable of using it! Something that popped up when I was discussing this with him was how clean it burns, he's excited to use something he doesn't have to clean after the each shot but I did tell him "even tho it burns so clean and you can shoot anywhere between 20-30 shots without cleaning the barrel doesn't mean you should sight in like that" he argued back and forth saying the fouling won't make hat big of difference, anytime sight by my rifles in I always swab the barrel to get all the "big stuff" out. Even tho with bh209 it's very minimal but when I do this I'm trying to get an idea of how well my gun groups under "1st shot conditions" since that's what's important in the field! Am I wrong by this and wasting my time or is this good practice when trying to find the right load and best groups? Sorry for the long post [emoji854]Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
