I OWN SEVERAL TCs. Having worked for Brownells as a Tech. I took my first shot on a deer, this December. Using my TC Contender Gen2, 20" MGM SS barrel, Leupold VX6 Firedot scope. Ranged it 153 yrds. broadside, Firedot on the scapula, Boom!!! Down!!! My late Dad a gun collector and being blessed to hunt with almost anything I want. TCs all day, every time!
I have a TC Encore S.S. camo stock in 280 Remington, also have TC Contender 6.8 spc bull barrel and extra 22lr barrel. Deer hunt with 6.8 spc. Great tree stand gun. Both guns are beautiful and exude quality. Very accurate and simple. One shot one kill.
22:11 Even though I now have the Compass II in .308 Win, seeing this guy with the Encore Pro Hunter .308 Win make a perfect shot was great. Looked like a brachial plexus shot, which is good. Drops a deer right where he is standing. Great if hunting near other property. So many people think you have to hit the heart and lungs and I have seen deer run 30 to 100 yards on the last breath and the last heartbeat. Sometimes, in the "wrong" direction.
i love how you line up your sights and then make a little noise so that it can stay still and then take the shot i see that in almost all the hunting videos i c
Vector Rector My uncle hunted whitetail deer for years . Whenever he encountered a buck in close he would make a grunt sound . This would usually cause the buck to pause for a few seconds and raise their head to see what made the sound .
Be sure you keep proof of purchase on your T/C or they won't help you at all. had to have a Pro Hunter chamber cleaned up due to a bad finish reamer from manufacturing. Didn't notice this until I started reloading which was 10 years after purchase. They basically flew me the bird with a "Sorry" to boot. Liked the 308 Win Mag description when they showed the pistol.
Want to know One of the main reasons I'm not completely sold on TC Encore and Contender Rifles and pistols? The replacement barrels are twice the cost of replacement barrels on other rifles. For instance, a replacement barrel on a Remington 700 in 308 Winchester is only around $200 from most major custom shops. A TC Encore replacement barrel is almost $400! That's ridiculous. If they want to get more people interested, they need to price their barrels accordingly. You can buy a Henry Single Shot for around $250 and that's the whole rifle!
Now take that $200 R700 barrel and have it installed, timed, and finish reamed. Your $200 barrel just turned into $600. I have two encores. Barrels range from 200-400 and take a screwdriver and 1 pin to replace. No finish reaming, no headspacing.. swap your barrels at the range.
I bought my Thompson Center Encore pistol with 10" 7mm-08 Remington barrel in 1997 brand new for $350. I've had over a dozen true (Made in Rochester, New Hampshire) Thompson Center Encore barrels and I've never paid more than $185 brand new for each rifle or pistol barrel.
@@yooper7753 I have to say that as a Canadian, there are not too many times I wish I lived in the U.S. but when it comes to my favorite rifle, my Encore Prohunter, getting barrels, and custom work done, you guys in the states have it made.
Looking to set up for a prairie dog hunt in multiple calibers 17HMR, 17WSM and 223 and the Pro Hunter sounds like it may do the trick. One question, do these forearms need to be bedded for accuracy? I like the idea that I can just add a barrel if I want to go 22-250 or so. Thanks for the video.
When you hve the action i.e stock trigger hammer unit its literally just a case of fitting whatever barrel your situation reuires they make so many personaly id love a Thompson with a blue and white laminate stock a hand made case to fit a hawk red dot for the heavyer calibers as id have one barrel in 12g set up for slug and id have a500s&w barrel and a .444marlin barrel and a 47 70 gov caliber barrrel then id have a simmons white tail classic scope in my case set up for my medioum deer caliber barrels id have one in .30 06and one in 223 and one barrel in the deer calibers has to be 6.5 creedmore and id get one in 7mm rem mag and varminting you only need 3 so ons 22mag barrel one .410 barrel and the best of the best the good old 17hmr amd id get a fancy hawk vantage 3x9x40ao scope for the rimfire barrels and id have it lile i say in a big home made foam lined felt covered box with wich barrel marked next to it it was out of embossed aluminium and same with the optics and id get a nice cheeck pad made from embossed leathet aswell as a brass hammer exstender and brass trigger shoe thats probly my dreem hunting set up never relly been much into pistols but id take a hi capacity glock in 10mm up into bear country and states permitted id have a colt m4 carbine loaded with solid copper federal hollowpoints for home defence and the 10mm would share that role aswell ....them Thompson's are so so good if you have a chanve to het one get it
Lol... Yeah, turkey loads are very very stout.... Especially when it's a single shot, because they are lighter weight, and have no bolt or receiver to soak up recoil.
I have a T/C contender and Encore with several barrels in several calibers. It is much like the potato chip commercial. I bet you cannot shoot just one.
I LOVE this concept, but I don't understand why its $800, more more. that being said, I'd pay 350-400 for a 3 gun setup, a rimfire, a rifle and a shotgun. Or at the very least make it easy to get other barrels. Rossi did it right but they weren't popular enough, and NEF aren't producing them anymore. It's hard to find a hunting gun when you're in college lol.
What I don’t like is that they make a product and tell you to check your local and federal laws. You would think a company would already know what state or federal laws could be broken by converting a rifle into a pistol.
You're 100% right. It's technically a felony to buy one as a rifle and later swap it to pistol configuration. However if you buy it as a pistol it It's legal to swap back and forth per a 2011 BATFE ruling. Do your research. Why doesn't Thompson or S&W tell you this? Notice she held up a pistol and talked about converting it to a rifle. It sounds ridiculous but it's the BATFE we're talking about.
False the original Thompson Center Encore was first available in 1997 and it wasn't the Pro Hunter version. The Pro Hunter didn't become available until the 2000's. I bought my original blue Thompson Center Encore 10" 7mm-08 Remington brand new in 1997 for $350. The only real Thompson Center items are stamped made in Rochester New Hampshire. Any Thompson Center item stamped made in Springfield Massachusetts is actually a Smith & Wesson product. Smith & Wesson bought Thompson Center in 2007.
Well your off by about 17 years I had a blue with synthetic black stock which I still have today and I got it in 1985. And the encore came out in 1983 not 1997.
@@umami0247 Wrong, since you said 1983 I'll let you know Wikipedia is wrong too. Thompson Center (T/C) had a rifle called TCR-83/87, but it's not the Encore. It was a close idea, but not the Encore. This TCR-83/87 (NON- Encore) rifle was available in 1983, that's your rifle you obtained in 1985. I'm actually wrong too, the first T/C Encore blued frame was serial number 1000 in 1996. I said 1997 since that's the date of my T/C Encore blued frame, but I was off by only one year from when they were first released. Firearm history is fun, but sometimes frustrating when it's hard to remember things. Have a nice day.
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I OWN SEVERAL TCs. Having worked for Brownells as a Tech. I took my first shot on a deer, this December. Using my TC Contender Gen2, 20" MGM SS barrel, Leupold VX6 Firedot scope. Ranged it 153 yrds. broadside, Firedot on the scapula, Boom!!! Down!!! My late Dad a gun collector and being blessed to hunt with almost anything I want. TCs all day, every time!
I have a TC Encore S.S. camo stock in 280 Remington, also have TC Contender 6.8 spc bull barrel and extra 22lr barrel. Deer hunt with 6.8 spc. Great tree stand gun. Both guns are beautiful and exude quality. Very accurate and simple. One shot one kill.
i have a rifle 6.8 rem as well as others
22:11 Even though I now have the Compass II in .308 Win, seeing this guy with the Encore Pro Hunter .308 Win make a perfect shot was great. Looked like a brachial plexus shot, which is good. Drops a deer right where he is standing. Great if hunting near other property. So many people think you have to hit the heart and lungs and I have seen deer run 30 to 100 yards on the last breath and the last heartbeat. Sometimes, in the "wrong" direction.
I have a 30-06 and a muzzleloader barrel. Also have the old contender which has killed many a deer.
i love how you line up your sights and then make a little noise so that it can stay still and then take the shot i see that in almost all the hunting videos i c
Vector Rector My uncle hunted whitetail deer for years . Whenever he encountered a buck in close he would make a grunt sound . This would usually cause the buck to pause for a few seconds and raise their head to see what made the sound .
Be sure you keep proof of purchase on your T/C or they won't help you at all. had to have a Pro Hunter chamber cleaned up due to a bad finish reamer from manufacturing. Didn't notice this until I started reloading which was 10 years after purchase. They basically flew me the bird with a "Sorry" to boot.
Liked the 308 Win Mag description when they showed the pistol.
A nice trophy AND plenty of venison stew. Or add some chopped up chorizo and make a ciervo chili.
Want to know One of the main reasons I'm not completely sold on TC Encore and Contender Rifles and pistols? The replacement barrels are twice the cost of replacement barrels on other rifles. For instance, a replacement barrel on a Remington 700 in 308 Winchester is only around $200 from most major custom shops. A TC Encore replacement barrel is almost $400! That's ridiculous. If they want to get more people interested, they need to price their barrels accordingly. You can buy a Henry Single Shot for around $250 and that's the whole rifle!
Now take that $200 R700 barrel and have it installed, timed, and finish reamed. Your $200 barrel just turned into $600. I have two encores. Barrels range from 200-400 and take a screwdriver and 1 pin to replace. No finish reaming, no headspacing.. swap your barrels at the range.
You can pick up rifle barrels on Ebay for about 275. I got my 7mm-08 pistol barrel for 200 even.
I bought my Thompson Center Encore pistol with 10" 7mm-08 Remington barrel in 1997 brand new for $350.
I've had over a dozen true (Made in Rochester, New Hampshire) Thompson Center Encore barrels and I've never paid more than $185 brand new for each rifle or pistol barrel.
@@yooper7753 I have to say that as a Canadian, there are not too many times I wish I lived in the U.S. but when it comes to my favorite rifle, my Encore Prohunter, getting barrels, and custom work done, you guys in the states have it made.
Thomson encore iv I had made a barrle in 357 maximum mag is fun to shoot .first time out in 2018 killed two does with it .
Looking to set up for a prairie dog hunt in multiple calibers 17HMR, 17WSM and 223 and the Pro Hunter sounds like it may do the trick. One question, do these forearms need to be bedded for accuracy? I like the idea that I can just add a barrel if I want to go 22-250 or so. Thanks for the video.
When you hve the action i.e stock trigger hammer unit its literally just a case of fitting whatever barrel your situation reuires they make so many personaly id love a Thompson with a blue and white laminate stock a hand made case to fit a hawk red dot for the heavyer calibers as id have one barrel in 12g set up for slug and id have a500s&w barrel and a .444marlin barrel and a 47 70 gov caliber barrrel then id have a simmons white tail classic scope in my case set up for my medioum deer caliber barrels id have one in .30 06and one in 223 and one barrel in the deer calibers has to be 6.5 creedmore and id get one in 7mm rem mag and varminting you only need 3 so ons 22mag barrel one .410 barrel and the best of the best the good old 17hmr amd id get a fancy hawk vantage 3x9x40ao scope for the rimfire barrels and id have it lile i say in a big home made foam lined felt covered box with wich barrel marked next to it it was out of embossed aluminium and same with the optics and id get a nice cheeck pad made from embossed leathet aswell as a brass hammer exstender and brass trigger shoe thats probly my dreem hunting set up never relly been much into pistols but id take a hi capacity glock in 10mm up into bear country and states permitted id have a colt m4 carbine loaded with solid copper federal hollowpoints for home defence and the 10mm would share that role aswell ....them Thompson's are so so good if you have a chanve to het one get it
Please have a option for a pistol receiver in a rifle package
I think the guy farted at 4:16🤣😂😂😂
I went back and when he strained to pick up his head, he either farted or ripped his britches 😂😂😂!!!!! Gotta love the no edit on that!
Lol I can't help it...... but did anybody notice what was happening @ 6:21 lol must have been shooting a slug
Lol... Yeah, turkey loads are very very stout.... Especially when it's a single shot, because they are lighter weight, and have no bolt or receiver to soak up recoil.
You used a thompson to take out a tom
Will the shotgun barrel except other chokes for other hunting
I have a T/C contender and Encore with several barrels in several calibers. It is much like the potato chip commercial. I bet you cannot shoot just one.
I always wanted a contender & encore too much $ stayed with H&R got 13 Barrels for one . 3 for rimfire need 22 LR for it. And both gone. What a shame.
I LOVE this concept, but I don't understand why its $800, more more. that being said, I'd pay 350-400 for a 3 gun setup, a rimfire, a rifle and a shotgun. Or at the very least make it easy to get other barrels. Rossi did it right but they weren't popular enough, and NEF aren't producing them anymore. It's hard to find a hunting gun when you're in college lol.
CVA Single shot, my friend. In the low 200's. Around 5-6 lbs.
Go forth and hunt well.
9:30 new caliber offering? .308 win mag? ;)
Warbeast911
Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha, pretty messed up
Haha
308 win mag?
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What I don’t like is that they make a product and tell you to check your local and federal laws. You would think a company would already know what state or federal laws could be broken by converting a rifle into a pistol.
Laws always change so we want everyone to not assume and be safe that way. Appreciate the feedback
That wasn’t directed at you guys. More so at Thompson center.
It’s a liability issue. If you give “legal guidance” then you assume liability. Much easier and safer to tell others to check local laws
How long would the video be if they listed all the silly laws for all 50 states? Check yourself.
You're 100% right. It's technically a felony to buy one as a rifle and later swap it to pistol configuration. However if you buy it as a pistol it It's legal to swap back and forth per a 2011 BATFE ruling. Do your research. Why doesn't Thompson or S&W tell you this? Notice she held up a pistol and talked about converting it to a rifle. It sounds ridiculous but it's the BATFE we're talking about.
Bringer back
False the original Thompson Center Encore was first available in 1997 and it wasn't the Pro Hunter version. The Pro Hunter didn't become available until the 2000's.
I bought my original blue Thompson Center Encore 10" 7mm-08 Remington brand new in 1997 for $350.
The only real Thompson Center items are stamped made in Rochester New Hampshire.
Any Thompson Center item stamped made in Springfield Massachusetts is actually a Smith & Wesson product.
Smith & Wesson bought Thompson Center in 2007.
Well your off by about 17 years I had a blue with synthetic black stock which I still have today and I got it in 1985. And the encore came out in 1983 not 1997.
@@umami0247 Wrong, since you said 1983 I'll let you know Wikipedia is wrong too.
Thompson Center (T/C) had a rifle called TCR-83/87, but it's not the Encore. It was a close idea, but not the Encore. This TCR-83/87 (NON- Encore) rifle was available in 1983, that's your rifle you obtained in 1985.
I'm actually wrong too, the first T/C Encore blued frame was serial number 1000 in 1996. I said 1997 since that's the date of my T/C Encore blued frame, but I was off by only one year from when they were first released.
Firearm history is fun, but sometimes frustrating when it's hard to remember things.
Have a nice day.
@@umami0247 They had the TCR 83, not the Encore. How do I know? I worked there.
I have one of these
Embarrassing but I have a Encore rifle and I can’t get the barrel to break down so I can load it.
It's stuck? Just thought we'd follow up and see if we can help
Americana Outdoors Just had to man up and force it open. Everything looks great inside maybe just because it is so new and needs to be worn a little !
Dang blown the rim off at4.16 Lord help them
I don't know how you get excited over shooting a deer that you paid that much money for not hunting
what? im not trying to be an asshole, I just didnt unterstand
Tom thompson
Now out of business. Wow
Boy if only antlers were etible.
GOESS THIS CLUB IS SHUT DOWN AS A LOY AL tca CUSTOMER i FEEL THEY DESERTED ME.
Hunting is not Kosher and even Gentiles need to follow what the Old Testament says about correct taking of an animals life.
Hunting is about Sustainability of many assets to benefit many aspects.