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Anyone shoot a 218 bee carbine in a contender?
If so, how is effectiveness and accuracy?


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Originally Posted by Steve Redgwell
It would be nice to get a 22Hornet barrel. It's a favourite of mine. Here in rural Onterrible, tis the bees knees for a sorts of critters around the place.


I've thought the same thing. Will likely scratch the itch with a .223 barrel and then download it to Hornet and .22 mag velocities.

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Whatever floats your boat.

Everything is now been ordered.

For any Cdns that wish to order a new Contender, you will have to go through an importer. Encores are easier to buy. Cabelas, Bass Pro and others carry this frame.

Once the transaction is complete, I will post the barrel i.porters name and address.


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Steve, can you legally send a firearm to the US for repair? I don't know import/export law between the US and CA. Anyway, if you can, Mike Bellm is the man who can make a TC Contender run like a champ. He also sells kits that you can do your own trigger job, should you be inclined. He's a bit eccentric but really knows his stuff.
http://www.bellmtcs.com/store/


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Most firearms up here have authorized repair facilities. I know Mike won't accept work from outside the US. I assume that if it is shipped to an ffl, he would though. I don't know how much an ffl holder would charge for that.


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I know the shop now has an FFL so guns can be shipped directly to it but that may not address the international situation.


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I guess the best way would be for me to call or email him and ask.

I know that he does sell some items up north. I just bought a dial indicator for headspace from him. That wasn't an issue. WRT sending a receiver to the US, it's definitely been a big issue since 9/11. In Canada, we have always been able to ship firearms via the mail. No special concerns. Shipping south has to be handled differently.


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I got the phone call this afternoon from the importer. They have mailed the receiver. Should be Wed or Thurs next week. Now it's just waiting on MGM for the barrel.


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That's an exciting call. I'm sure the MGM barrel won't be too far behind. What are you doing for stock set, does your frame come with a set?


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I only bought the frame. The 30-30 barrel was a separate order. Once I know that things work smoothly from MGM to Canada, I'll order a 6x45mm.


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I might be needing a 6x45 myself, seeing as how I can't seem to resist bargain .243 bullets, despite having way more than enough to smoke the barrel of my new Ruger, as yet unfired.

I didn't grow up during the Depression, but sometimes it's hard to tell.😛


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I know what you mean. Sometimes I wish that I would buy enough of a particular bullet brand and style that I could never run out.

I have a 243 Winchester bolt that loves 80 gr. Rem PSP bulk bullets. I bought 1000 of them some years back. I have probably less than 200 left. Remington doesn't sell them anymore as a bulk item, so I'll have to search for a substitute. Knock 'em dead coyote bullets.

I'd be checking on the throat of that 6x45mm barrel. I don't like to crowd the body of the case with the bullet heel, and you're getting there with 80+ grain bullets in a 6x45mm. 80 grain Partitions are as much as I want to go.


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The frame arrived today. No issues and no rough handling.

It was ordered on 18 Apr, so it took 6 weeks to arrive. I've no problem with that at all. The process was simple and the company handled all the paperwork. Beside firearms, they can also import firearms accessories. The link has all the necessary steps to make a purchase in the US and import into Canada.

https://www.irunguns.us


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One tiny detail that everyone should find laughable.

I registered the Contender for warranty. There wasn't much in the box, just the frame, foreend and two screws. I wondered about the hinge pin. This was my first Contender. Maybe they ship a hinge pin with the barrel.

I emailed T/C and asked. They were very prompt to respond. No, the fellow said, there should be one in the box.

Here's the silly part. The hinge pin attaches the barrel to the frame. Therefore, it falls under a part of the US export regs that controls firearms parts. In short, it cannot be sent to me directly.

The Cdn warranty centre here has to get it and they will forward the pin to me.

Glad I didn't have a barrel!


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Same thing happened to me. Then when I got a pin it didn't matter anyway because a barrel wouldn't fit. Tc.eventually sent a whole new frame

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You're scaring me.

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Dang, Dude, you just can't catch a break.

Musta really pissed off the Karma Fairy at some point.


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With the exception of Ruger No1s, every single shot rifle I've owned hates me, I swear.

So I decided to do something that few people do. I am going to take an inexpensive Savage Axis, put a Shilen select match grade barrel on it, in the original contour, and make a walk around varmint 6x45mm with it. What does that have to do with single shots? I was going to buy a Contender 6x45mm barrel, but I'm getting skittish.


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Didn't mean to dissuade you. I think the contenders are great. I just had bad luck

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No worries.

It sounds like BS, but I've had a number of single shot rifles over the years and they were plagued with problems. Most were H&R, but I did have a couple of Rossis, one Browning and two Ruger No1s. I posted here about a few of them.

As I said in an earlier post, never a lick of problems with my No 1s, but the rest! I must have got some bad ones that slipped past the QC inspectors. Mounting holes not threaded on one. Improper lock up in another. An internal problem with the transfer bar in a third. All problems were unrelated to ammunition.

I had a 30-30 H&R go through two scopes, and never figured out why. I wrote it off to bad luck. Ditched that one quickly! I also shot my chronograph with that same rifle.

If there is a saint for single shot rifles, he's POed with me over something.


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