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i didn`t think there was a lot of interest in T.C. contenders ? Very nice Contenders and pictures posted. i think this summer i am going to take a inventory on what contender stuff i have and sell it in a package ,i know i got 3 or 4 frames one is silver frame,6 -10 or barrels all good stuff, i just don`t use it anymore. If any of the barrels are short carbines (like 16-20") I might be interested to buy. Can PM me if so.
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I've accumulated several frames, barrels, stocksets over the years. Around 15 frames, 20 something barrels. The biggest thing to be watchful for is a disease known as B.A.D., Aka barrel acquisition disease, or barrel acquisition disorder. There is no known cure. The slang name for this disease is simply "barrel whore" .
Seriously, I've bought barrels online with my phone, from the men's room at work. Several, actually. and a couple complete carbines from gunbroker, too.
I can quit anytime I want. 😁
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Just drug my Super 14 to the range today. Inch and a half high at 50 yards. 35 rem 200gr Hornady Leverevolution. 3 shots at/under an inch. w 2X scope resting on half arse bag.
Thing shoots plenty good enough for me!
Contender, easy open frame, Try it at 100 when not so hot.
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Your shootin' stinks fella....
I am..........disturbed.
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SCGunNut, how you liking the .25-35? I think it's a perfect cartridge in a lightweight Contender. It's a Fox Ridge barrel I ordered in 2003 because I had given up on finding a clean lever gun so chambered. A couple years later, Winchester did a small run of Angle Eject 94's in it and I bought one of those too. I've only killed one deer and one coyote with the Contender, using the factory Winchester 117gr load and it performed as expected. I hope to do more hunting with the Contender this year than I have in the past, with all three barrels. I forget how handy it is until I pull it out of the safe ever so often. I have an old-ish box of Win. 25-35 ammo in good shape, and wander up thru the Carolinas from time to time. Lemme know if you have room for it.
I am..........disturbed.
Concerning the difference between man and the jackass: some observers hold that there isn't any. But this wrongs the jackass. -Twain
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Your shootin' stinks fella....
Dan....that one was one of very few that didnt spray when i capped him, he wandered around below my climbing stand for a while , and that .250gr .414 slug severed his spine right behind the noggin & angled though the chest cavity. (still didnt smell sweet though) i moved the climber after that.
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I've accumulated several frames, barrels, stocksets over the years. Around 15 frames, 20 something barrels. The biggest thing to be watchful for is a disease known as B.A.D., Aka barrel acquisition disease, or barrel acquisition disorder. There is no known cure. The slang name for this disease is simply "barrel whore" .
Seriously, I've bought barrels online with my phone, from the men's room at work. Several, actually. and a couple complete carbines from gunbroker, too.
I can quit anytime I want. 😁 ahhhh, the deliciously sinful delights of wretched excess. Heard about a place that could cure you for a nominal fee, them i said screw it & quickly decided the loot was better spent on more frames & a few extra kegs of powder. 6.5x30/30ackleys, for the twisty barrel... 6.8, and 25-45 sharps: .32mag, and 32/20
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waiting for hogs, 7x30 waters.... .35rem, makin meat. making shiny .30herrett brass: 6.5TCU carbine: .30reece (.30x357)
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You Sir, are an enabler. thank you for the great barrel hanging idea...
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My Uncle just gave me a pistol and a carbine with various barrels in .22 LR, 221 Fireball, 222 rem, 223, 7-30 Waters, and 44. mag. I'm very grateful and excited to have them. I just hate that he 'outgrew' them. Time marches on. These will go to my kids when I am done.
Broncos are officially the worst team in the nation this year.
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A very nice gesture and a great collection of calibers.
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Fyrepowrx, If you don't mind, what is the brand of the stock/foreend that you are sporting on your contenders? thanks, kstockfo
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Fyrepowrx, If you don't mind, what is the brand of the stock/foreend that you are sporting on your contenders? thanks, kstockfo the rifles are are all various versions of TC factory stocks, which TC used over several different generations of Contender variations. The more slender ones were standard issue on middle-production-period 'tender carbines, made by Choate stocks. i got tired of black & did some home-brewed camo on several. The slightly wider beavertail stocks were the style used on G2 carbines, and are bit more hand filling: have a few sets of laminates on handguns, by Georgia Jim, and i think some were by Dave Dolin, and a retired fellow who had a business called Otter Stocks. (John no longer is doing stocks though.
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Lots of nice pix!
For those of you with several barrels, do you know of a hard sided case that could fit four or five 20 to 24 inch barrels?
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That was a bit overwhelming G. I take it that is Mike's 257 rob. It is a beautiful thing all those tenders you got. Now post your CZ rimfires for our edification.
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This is one of the cartridges that I've always wanted. Thanks! Don't show too many of those or I'll end up with another barrel!
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I believe that owners of single shot rifles are generally more intelligent than the rest of the shooting world. Why? SS users are better shots. They don't need the crutch of multiple cartridges poised as back up. We're not overseas anymo'. Most are contemplative, not hot heads. They have to because it takes a tiny bit longer to reload and fire...if they even need to. SS users have a superior ability to assess and act on any hunting situation. They are working without a net so to speak, and must be able to quickly make to the proper decision. SS users have superior hand/eye coordination. They have to be able to confidently work the action, extract the spent case, reload and fire again without any mechanical help. SS users are not like lemmings. They don't follow the crowd, pursuing the latest "cool thing". P.S. I don't own a 10-22. Wow! 😎
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Yes, it is definitely cool to be a SS hunter.
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Single shot rifles rock.... They can be particularly hazardous when 2 people are in the woods at the same time with such things.
I am..........disturbed.
Concerning the difference between man and the jackass: some observers hold that there isn't any. But this wrongs the jackass. -Twain
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You must be a strong person, Dan. It looks like you gave those pigs a run for their money. They look plum tuckered out after wrestling your rifle away from you.
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