All I heard before I got my Encore was how accurate they are. Now that I have one all I hear is how they are infested with problems that destroy accuracy and TC wont really help. Mine is shooting 18 inches high at 25 yards with the iron sights fully lowered. If TC is going to sell the 45-70 the least they could do would be to put sights on the gun so that published loads can be sighted in. If your 18 high at 25 even with a 45/70 your gonna be still high at 100. Iron sights are useless beyond that. Cant figure it, the gun is supposed to be "accurate" and so is the cartridge. T/C claims all barrels will shoot at least 2 moa. Dont have any jacketed bullets on hand to load hotter so I guess next I will just duplicate the original and load it down with pyrodex to slow it down and see where that lands.