Just some thoughts....
I had several Contender pistols and a 35 Remington carbine at one time. Of the pistols, the 357 Maximum was my favorite... could use carbide dies to reload and its performance in a ten-inch barrel was close enough to the 357 Herret without having to make brass.
I was at a Prescott, AZ gunshow when a guy walked in with a T/C mannlicher stocked carbine in 6X47. I offered to buy it, but it wasn't for sale. The only other contender rifle barrel that I craved was when SSK made a T/C Contender barrel in 300 savage, which has to be the top end for the T/C. In a mannlicher stock of course.
To address the OP's post, if I were to get back into the Contenders again, the rifle barrels I would pick up after my previous experience would be simply a .22LR and a 357 Max.
Jerry
