Thompson Center is finally fully back and selling guns. They have started with the Encore platform specifically and are offering three versions. First up is a muzzleloader with a .50 caliber barrel featuring a 209 priming system. Second are the centerfire options. The shotgun version is specifically a rifled barrel in 12 gauge and 20 gauge intended for saboted slugs. Finally, they have the traditional rifle setup. The cartridge list isn't available on the website that I can see but I remember seeing it on their Instagram page. The starting list was pretty large for the rifles and the shotgun list pretty complete including a 45 Colt / .410 option which I find very interesting.
Focusing on the rifle cartridges, they have a large number a typical bottlenecked options with all the usual straight-walls but they do have some new stuff like 22 ARC and 400 Legend. I'm sad to see they don't have .30-30 on the list but I do see they have 360 BuckHammer. The coolest options are the .460 and .500 Magnum cartridges. While I have no interest in the 500 I do have an interest in the 460 for use with 45 Colt handloads.
I'm very glad to see that Gregg Ritz and his team took the chance to bring T/C back. I'm holding out for when they bring the Contender back so I can start experimenting with different cartridges. I've been day dreaming for a few years about buying a .357 Mag Contender with a 10 inch barrel. I want to use a 10 inch .357 Mag for testing handloads and jacketed soft points to build a more complete picture of my on-going saga of the .357 Magnum for General Purpose. The Contender is the best choice for that testing I want to do.
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