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My latest Carbine barrel just arrived, .357 Herrett. Other barrels are .25-35 Win and 6.8 Rem. Thinking a .414 Super Mag might be next...
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I don't own a 10-22. I'm shocked. How do you amuse the grandkids? I have a fair number of SS guns actually, and a few of all the other kinds as well. Front stuffers, back stuffers, ratchet-slappers, and a few bolts cover most of it in the world of rifles. The one I'm trying to get settled out at present is a .45-70 Highwall. You don't wanna be trying the loads I'm shooting in Thumper with a Contender. Trust me. I'll get if figured out one of these days. BP and cast bullets be fun.
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I am..........disturbed.
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My latest Carbine barrel just arrived, .357 Herrett. Other barrels are .25-35 Win and 6.8 Rem. Thinking a .414 Super Mag might be next... That's a fine looking piece of kit! I don't own a 10-22. I'm shocked. How do you amuse the grandkids? With a Model 60. My oldest grandson has had a long attachment to it.
Safe Shooting! Steve Redgwell www.303british.comGet your facts first, then you can distort them as you please. - Mark Twain Member - Professional Outdoor Media Association of Canada
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When are you going to introduce him to the Contender?
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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SCGunNut, how you liking the .25-35?
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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When are you going to introduce him to the Contender? I already have. He has fired my 30-30 and 17 Hornet. This is him with the little 17.
Safe Shooting! Steve Redgwell www.303british.comGet your facts first, then you can distort them as you please. - Mark Twain Member - Professional Outdoor Media Association of Canada
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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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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.
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You mean like this? Haha...yeah, something more like that. Well done.
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Taking the Super 14 in .35 rem to the range tomorrow. It's the limit for me w my bum wrist.
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You need a stock and a longer barrel is all. Don't fight the addiction, there are ways around problems like you're experiencing.
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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I've been trying to shoot some groups with my Contenders but I keep having these dang coyotes and chucks getting in the way! Definitely addictive rifles. Picked up my first one in 17 Hornet just a couple years ago with wood stock and promptly added a Choate folding stock. Then bought 3 more barrels in 223, 204, and 17wsm. Then figured I needed a second frame to minimize the barrel swapping. Then decided to get trigger jobs on both frames to put them both right at 2lbs. Now thinking it would be cool to have a 410 or 28 gauge MGM shotgun barrel..... help!
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Back a few years before TC offered the Carbine in factory form, i was shooting a custom version by Kendrick , called the Texas Contender...it was a light tapered carbine & i had barrels in .222 and .357. Guess that was about the late 70's , or early 80's maybe. It might have weighed 6# scoped, and it shot pretty well. I began to enjoy the weight & handling, and started carrying that carbine a bit. As soon as TC offered it in a factory version I ended up with 2 of them: a Hornet, and a .223, soon to be followed up with an extra barrel in 30/30...It was about that time i got interested in playing around with wildcat calibers & the TC platform was an easy option for doing so. So, lots more followed. And i started hunting with carbines more. I still hunt with them a fair bit, in all sorts of configurations, and an excessive number of calibers. and they are probably my favorite "walking around" gun for popping at crows & stuff, deer hunting, and general woods walking. Lost a lot of my pix back when photobucket went belly up, especially of various handgun hunts & various TC's in pistol format, but will post a bunch of assorted pix. For those thinking about maybe giving one a try, while they wouldn't be my first choice for sitting on a dogtown busting PD's all day, as a light hunting rifle they have worked pretty well for me. And, i've had scores of barrels that were very accurate. Still on the prowl for "one or 2 more", though at this point its most definitely a "just cause i aint got one" sort of thing. --------------------------------------------------------------------- MGM 30/30 20" semi-bull 30/30 carbine, with an 8 point...that carbine shoots the Speer 130HP pretty well, when paired with CFE223..and that bullet is a pretty good deer/hog bullet at 2400-ish FPS. TC Custom shop 7x30 waters, 24", Barnes 110TTSX with H335 ( @ about 2700fps or so) One of my favorites, a .25x30/30 Ackley Improved, with 80gr TTSX's at about 3000fps...killed a lot of stuff with that combo, in both pistol & carbine versions. 32mag carbine.......Trophy Trash Panda , 7.0gr AA#7 with the Hornady 85gr HP. Coons -versus- K-Hornets:
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Hollowing out pack- rats around deer camp, with a .17Fireball. White Tails, with the .445 SuperMag Carbine, shooting 265 FTX's seated out long, over a case full of reloder7: Hogs with the 25/35: SSK 45/70, Hornady 350FP: 25x30/30ackley again: whackin yotes with the Hornady 150SST from a 30/30Ackley Improved:
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.411x444 Carbine: my 358JDJ, and the blued one is a friend's Encore in .257 Roberts .414SuperMag: up a tree, with the 45/70: 5.7x28 carbine, with my squirrel hunting load...speer 46gr FN bee bullet at about 1200fps: tupperware stocked .375 win carbine comes in at 5.7# scoped.
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25-45sharps carbine, Speer 87's shoot pretty fair: 32/20 (really a 30/20) carbine: 25x30/30Ackley, this one in 15" tube: 41mag shorty carbine: 6.5TCU carbine...carried this one around a bit last fall...27.7gr AA2230, with the 100gr Nosler Partition gives 2650fps from the 22" barrel.
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Back a few years before TC offered the Carbine in factory form, i was shooting a custom version by Kendrick , called the Texas Contender...it was a light tapered carbine & i had barrels in .222 and .357.
There's one in .30 Herrett on GunBroker right now ... https://www.gunbroker.com/item/812610082
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WOW ! You are a loony !!
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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.
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