crawfish: Thanks, your information was helpful. I do handload for my rifles, and I would expect to do that for the Encore. I assume that I would be using faster powders for a 15" barrel than if I were loading for a 22"-24" rifle barrel. Lyman's 48th edition manual has loads for the Thompson Center handguns. It looks from that data as if I could get velocities in a .270 Win of about 2550 fps with a 130 grain bullet in a Thompson Center, as opposed to 3050 or so in a 24" inch rifle barrel. That may be good enough for 200-300 yard shots on game.
