I love my encore.
Just a warning, if you put a Leupold scope on the Weaver base. You'll have to put a shim under the rear of the base. I don't know why but I know several people that had to do it that way. Sooner or later I will change the base. I hid the shim well enough that you can barely see it but it does bug me that it's there.
The gun does shoot. Seems to group well even with the 150 grain Pyrodex. I get better groups with Prodex than Triple 7, Go figure. Always under 2" ay 100 yards, sometimes alot better.