Encore barrels value?

[cumminsnut76]

I have an opportunity to purchase a blued Encore rifle from a buddy of mine. It comes with a blued 300 win mag and a 209x50 barrel. both blued. I may keep the 300 barrel but really dont have a lot of interest in the muzzle loader. both are in good condition, not perfect but overall good. any idea what they would be worth as just barrels? I am buying the gun worth the money and mostly just have interest in the frame and stock. Just looking for an overall average value that i could sell them for. I feel that Gunbroker can be all over the place on pricing.
Thanks

[Shawlerbrook]

$250-350 depending on caliber and if a forend is included.

[Barry54]

I paid $275 for a blued 300WM barrel not long ago. It’s a little finicky to chamber and close with the belt. A different 338WM works flawlessly.

You might try chambering and extracting a few rounds before you buy it and see if it’s an issue for you.

Another buddy has an Encore strictly as a muzzle loader. Says it’s the most accurate mz he’s tried.

[NSB]

My Encore ML would shoot 1.5” five shot groups at 100 yards using Barnes 290g with supplied sabots and BH209. Might want to try yours out before selling

[murf205]

You might want to keep that ML barrel if your luck is like mine(Murphy's Law). I had a good shooting NEF Huntsman 50 cal that I shot very sparingly and so I sold it. Well, just my luck, one of the best big buck Management Areas in my state went to archery or ML only as soon as I sold it!

[MT Gianni]

Following them on gbroker for about a decade the ML barrels are the slowest to sell. They take their own forend. I owned a 300 WM and currently have a 7 Rem mag I swapped for. Mike Belm reminds us that the Encore is a 60000 psi gun max and though the manuals might take you higher, some loads will stretch your frame.
My personal opinion is that the 308/3006 family are better suited for Encores.
Prices jumped recently so if your selling that's good, if your buying, not as much.

[Tripplebeards]

I zeroed in two of the muzzle loaders for buddies. One shot a .5” three shot group and the other a 3/4” three shot at 100 yards. My load was 3 fifty grain pellets of 777 and a yellow tipped 300 grain shock wave. My omega will shot better than both if them with the same load.

[Barry54]

Following them on gbroker for about a decade the ML barrels are the slowest to sell. They take their own forend. I owned a 300 WM and currently have a 7 Rem mag I swapped for. Mike Belm reminds us that the Encore is a 60000 psi gun max and though the manuals might take you higher, some loads will stretch your frame.
My personal opinion is that the 308/3006 family are better suited for Encores.
Prices jumped recently so if your selling that's good, if your buying, not as much.

60,000 psi max for which cartridge diameter please?

[MT Gianni]

Mike was referring to the 300 and 7 Remington Mags. You can probably take 223 higher.

[Barry54]

Mike was referring to the 300 and 7 Remington Mags. You can probably take 223 higher.

Thank you.

I knew the ultra mags were a bad idea. Just from reading about the Contender the pressure and diameter were used to calculate the thrust on the breech face.

[BobT]

The last muzzle loader barrel I sold brought $200.00, I was at a pretty big gun show and it sat on my table all weekend with $225.00 on it when a young fellow offered me the 200 I said yes pretty quick. With Thompson Center coming back, prices in this area are starting to come back down a little.