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Friend of mine that works here with me put together a small caliber varminter for his wife. It is a custom Contender Carbine by Match Grade Machine, and he had the barrel fluted in a Double Diamond flute pattern, and the flutes cerakoted in USMC Red...then had the stock cerakoted to match. Only weighs around 7# scoped (Burris 4.5-14x). Caliber is .17 Fireball....we're supposed to go out in a couple of weeks to give it a test drive. I told him you definitely dint have to worry about laying it down somewhere and losing it.
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It's a 'different strokes' kinda thing, I reckon. Hope the wife has better control of her gag reflex than I do.......grin
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I would ordinarily be quick to criticize... But as long as Im packing the McFlame...Im living in a glass house! Go forth and slay stuff with the Red Rocket!
"...the left considers you vermin, and they'll kill you given the chance..." Bristoe
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Hope the wife has better control of her gag reflex .......grin Only kinda woman worth havin aint it? she loves the fireball.......its maybe a tad "colorful" for me. i gotta couple of tubes with some assorted fluting, but nothing quite so wild in the color scheme....do have a .411x444 being built that will have the flutes dome in Burnt Bronze cerakote, should be here in a few weeks, thats about as wild as i care to go.
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the barbwire rocks. but would suck in red.
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You obviously have a thing for TCs...is it for all the regular reasons?
"...the left considers you vermin, and they'll kill you given the chance..." Bristoe
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You obviously have a thing for TCs...is it for all the regular reasons? started doing some handgun hunting around 20 years ago, then gradually got into experimenting with more wildcat calibers in various sizes, in both carbine and pistol length barrels, so the TC's were a natural outlet for that.
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They make a lot of sense for a lot of types of hunting. I never warmed up to them personally..but they have a proven track record for sure....
"...the left considers you vermin, and they'll kill you given the chance..." Bristoe
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Are you one one of the guys on the Outdoor Channel?
A Doe walks out of the woods today and says, that is the last time I'm going to do that for Two Bucks.
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Hey...I have a TC Icon bolt gun. Saw guys on TV with them and thought it looked OK. Only problem is that it takes about five minutes to get the safety off......
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They make a lot of sense for a lot of types of hunting. I never warmed up to them personally.. That's because they suck in a rat patch. Or off sticks. Or a bench. Or most any type of volume shooting. The 'wife' will find that out soon enuff, when she takes the little furball to the PD town. But for the poor, broke phugger that can't afford a repeater, and takes a shot a year at a deer, they's the bees knees.
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"...the left considers you vermin, and they'll kill you given the chance..." Bristoe
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That's because they suck in a rat patch. Or off sticks. Or a bench. Or most any type of volume shooting. The 'wife' will find that out soon enuff, when she takes the little furball to the PD town. But for the poor, broke phugger that can't afford a repeater, and takes a shot a year at a deer, they's the bees knees.
Yup, they do suck off the bench, i cant consistently make 3 bullet holes touch every time at a hundred....often on my barrels i gotta slum it at around 1/2 MOA or thereabouts. The various deer/hogs/dogs/etc around here havent noticed they suck though, they still seem to fall over when shot....
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I would contemplate a new nickname.
"My wife wore the barrel out on her Red Rocket" could be easily misconstrued.
Dave
Trump being classless,tasteless and clueless as usual. Sorry, trump is a no tax payin pile of shiit. My young wife decided to play the field and had moved several dudes into my house
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It ain't ALL about accuracy, to me. Sometimes I just don't want to fiddle-fugg with the time it takes to lose sight picture AND reload with a break action. But that just me. And red ain't my color.....
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I used a Contender Carbine in .17 Mach2 .22 Hornet for gopher and prairie dog shooting for a couple years, but eventually grew really weary of opening, breaking and closing the action during 100's of rounds.
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and here I thought I was the only one. But it didn't take me but one good long day in a dogtown. I could never have suffered like that for a 'couple YEARS', even if they are compact, easy to carry and accurate. There are accurate repeaters made every day.
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My own T/C, a product of Iowa deer hunting regulations and my disquieted mind. I want late season where only a "handgun" or mzlelr are legal. I have long ago fallen out of love for the charcoal burners and juggling components, so.. Our "handguns" must fire straight-walled cartridges, and not be fire from the shoulder. There is no limit on barrel length. This one is a full bull (thank goodness) and 18". Went right to Horn's Leverevolution bullets for more BC and hope to have a lay-down 200-250 yard deer thumper. By Bullberry in Utah; good work.
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I used a Contender Carbine in .17 Mach2 .22 Hornet for gopher and prairie dog shooting for a couple years, but eventually grew really weary of opening, breaking and closing the action during 100's of rounds. I personally wouldn't consider a single shot for PDs or Gophs....but a hunting buddy just had a wazoo 22PPC built on a single shot action for PDs..... After this last trip Im wondering where I can enlist the services of a couple loaders, and installing detachable high-cap mags... To each his own.....
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huntsman,
It was by no means the ONLY rifle I used on gophers and PD's during those two years. It was one of several I was experimenting with, since unless I'm just going out for an hour or so there are at least 4-5 rifles along, and perhaps a handgun or two.
And I only used it intermittently even then because I'd inexpensively acquired a couple of barrels chambered in cartridges that needed to be experimented with. After getting rid of them I bought real rifles chambered in those two rounds.
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