What is up, everybody? Mark on the mic, my good friend, Ryan Muck and Hearn across for me.

And today, we're talking about the Thompson Center Encore, which in the year 2025, is amidst its encore.

Butum tis.

I mean, this thing is making a comeback, Ryan.

I'm happy about it.

I think it's pretty cool.

Yeah.

Back in the day, we're going to be talking, what would I say, like early 2000s timeframe?

When did these things come out?

You know, I'd have to look back at when the introduction of the encore itself was, because there's been a number of TC single shots over the years.

Right.

Very similar, some radical departures in guns like the TC83, but like the contender, the contender G2 and the encore follow some similar veins.

When the encore was released, I can't give you the exact year.

Your timeline, though, where you're talking about that early 2000s when they got hot.

Hot, hot, hot.

I mean, so this was a time period, which I would say the height, the heyday of outdoor television.

We're talking, Sportsman Channel,man channel outdoor channel i'm not sure there

was a hunting tv show that wasn't using slash promoting thompson center it was everywhere

to the point where you know i mean that's a time also when that was major outdoor media.

These people were the influencers of the time.

Now, I never ultimately bought one of these rifles, but I definitely used a few and was like,

what am I missing?

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