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My wife has been acting strange for the past couple weeks. She didn't mind that I bought a T/C frame to build a nice camp gun out of but then she started getting pissy when I looked at accessories (barrel, scopes, grips, etc..) and said we didn't have the money to buy that stuff. I figured it wasn't worth fighting over so I went back to work on my other projects. On Friday I finally found out why she didn't want me to buy anything. She had been planning to buy me my dream build from the start. She got together with one of our friends who I usually talk to about gun stuff and used him as a spy. I bought the frame but everything else is custom/semi custom, even the internals.
Its a stainless T/C encore frame. All the internals have been replaced with the parts from Mike Bellm. The trigger is 2.78lbs and breaks as crisp as glass, all the springs have been replaced as well and the headspace has been adjusted on each of the barrels. She made me do a stupid right hand outline and wouldn't tell me why. She used the measurements to have a custom grip made and a matching forarm thats bedded with three aluminum pillars. She bought me three barrels, and had two of them rechambered by Mike for crazy accuracy. She gave me a .223 barrel for target practice and I also load it down to .22mag velocities to use for small game. She gave me a .45lc/410 shotshell barrel for small game. This is a cool barrel. It's a violation to have a smoothbore barrel on a handgun so this is T/C's way around that. They make a rifled .45LC barrel that has a 3in chamber to fit the .410 shotshells and it even has a screw in modified choke. It patterns about 10 inches at 25 yards, plenty for close range squirrel and bunnies. And finally, a .308 barrel for medium game like deer. She bought me a Burris 3-12 A/O pistol scope for the .223 barrel and a Leupold 2.5-8 VXIII for the .308 barrel. I took the gun to the range on Sat and the .223 barrel shoots 55grn BSTs into 0.84-1.22 M.O.A. average groups at 100 yards off sand bags, and thats without load development. The .308 barrel shoots around 1.4-2.1 M.O.A. average 5-shot groups at 150 yards, also without load development...yet.
Its a stainless T/C encore frame. All the internals have been replaced with the parts from Mike Bellm. The trigger is 2.78lbs and breaks as crisp as glass, all the springs have been replaced as well and the headspace has been adjusted on each of the barrels. She made me do a stupid right hand outline and wouldn't tell me why. She used the measurements to have a custom grip made and a matching forarm thats bedded with three aluminum pillars. She bought me three barrels, and had two of them rechambered by Mike for crazy accuracy. She gave me a .223 barrel for target practice and I also load it down to .22mag velocities to use for small game. She gave me a .45lc/410 shotshell barrel for small game. This is a cool barrel. It's a violation to have a smoothbore barrel on a handgun so this is T/C's way around that. They make a rifled .45LC barrel that has a 3in chamber to fit the .410 shotshells and it even has a screw in modified choke. It patterns about 10 inches at 25 yards, plenty for close range squirrel and bunnies. And finally, a .308 barrel for medium game like deer. She bought me a Burris 3-12 A/O pistol scope for the .223 barrel and a Leupold 2.5-8 VXIII for the .308 barrel. I took the gun to the range on Sat and the .223 barrel shoots 55grn BSTs into 0.84-1.22 M.O.A. average groups at 100 yards off sand bags, and thats without load development. The .308 barrel shoots around 1.4-2.1 M.O.A. average 5-shot groups at 150 yards, also without load development...yet.
