Have not heard from you in a while. I load 225 grain Barnes TSX for my Encore with an MGM barrel and a Ruger Hawkeye. I get 2,715 fps out of the Encore and 2,670 fps out of the Ruger. The lighter Barnes bullets would work fine. The 225 grain loads were the first I worked up. This bullet was so accurate in my Whelens that I just stayed with it.

There was no greater freedom than when I would leave Holiday Park Fish Camp heading my airboat west toward the Big Cypress. Fuel for 4 days, a good machete, an ice chest. No phone, no radio. Just God and me and the Everglades.