T/C Contender rifles

[gemihur]

You guys are the wild bunch!
Jebus, your woodworking is outta this world.
.. and Paradise with the Rigby ...ouch! Even in the Encore!
Good to see yall's stuff out there.
You must know that this is a sickness. Addicting.
.. but the wildcats keep me coming back!
Thanks,
Jimmy

 

[contender85]

...I bought an Encore a while back on GB...

...it had an interesting barrel...

...416 Rigby...

That's one that I have been thinking about getting, you shoot it yet, how's the recoil?

 

[psween]

I have two frames, one stays a carbine with a 23" bull in a wildcat .17-357 of my own design. MGM chambered it for me and it has shot .6" groups at 100 yes. My other frame stays a pistol with 10" .22 LR, 14" 7-30 for deer, and a 15" bull in the same .17 wildcat. Love Contenders!

 

[gemihur]

6x223 contender

14" SSK 6x223 Bbl w/ custom wood

 

[gemihur]

contender furniture

Latest work ... still needs sling stud and buttplate

 

[max503]

I posted earlier here, #30. Not wanting to hijack this thread, but is the Contender action difficult to disassemble? I want to clean mine.

 

[Farmer17]

There is a group of guys at my gun range that are in a Contender club and they all shoot Contenders and Encores and one guy I talked to had several beautiful custom made contender rifles. He let me shoot a couple of them and he said his most accurate rifle was chambered for the 7.62 AK-47 round which surprised me. He had a gorgeous custom made over/under 2 shot Contender rifle in .22 Hornet with 16 inch barrels that was really cool looking, has any one else seen any of those? I never cared for single shot guns for some reasons but a 2 shot double barrel would be pretty sweet.

 

[gemihur]

Max,
I'd not totally break it down but trigger assembly drop and normal cleaning can be done. There can be tedious moments at reassembly.
Farmer,
I've got some barrels that I load for that near the hairy edge of pressure tolerance for contender. (250 Savage, recently ditched my 444 Marlin)
7.62 should be handloaded in contender to lower pressures.
Would love to see that contender double barrel!
Thanks,
Jimmy

 

[Jebus35745]

Nice wood in post 46. What kinda wood Is It? Have since finished the wood on the Contender. Glad the sun was able to help show the grain. Larry

Won't let me load more pics , added. The other gun is a Martini 12/15. Was shooting both at 100 yards.

 

[gemihur]

Jebus,
The stock is a burly maple and the forearm is spalted sycamore.
The figure in your furniture is out of this world!
Thanks,
Jimmy

 

[Farmer17]

Farmer,
I've got some barrels that I load for that near the hairy edge of pressure tolerance for contender. (250 Savage, recently ditched my 444 Marlin)
7.62 should be handloaded in contender to lower pressures.
Would love to see that contender double barrel!
Thanks,
Jimmy[/QUOTE]

It was made by ON Target Technologies and I'm not sure if they're still in business. It used the rimfire firing pin selector lever as a barrel selector and I google searched but could not find any information or pictures of it. Most of the double rifles had a .22 rimfire top fire and a centerfire caliber for the bottom barrel.

 

[gemihur]

black powder contender

Contender Baby muzzleloaderGonic
GA-90 in .45 cal.

 

[gemihur]

so ya' wanna see some contender rifles, huh?

Big bore 375 JDJ but a powderpuff to shoot
I've got a 255 gr. Barnes bullet and it's loaded a little soft

 

[peyton]

I wanted to ask who should I contact for a encore barrel in 327 magnum? I own one T/C encore with a 300 blackout barrel and want another one in 327.

 

[Jebus35745]

MGM may be the one for a custom barrel. I see Bullberry is going out of business do to retirement. Hope he passes the business to someone in the company. They are advertising closeouts right now. Cool caliber in .327, been wanting one for yrs. When you get the barrel, show it to us here plus a range report. Have a great holiday, Larry

 

[gemihur]

custom barrel by D&T

That 44 will shoot like Thor's hammer, I'm sure!
MGM are fabulous barrelmakers.
If a donor barrel can be acquired and sent to David White anything is possible.
His site is down for the year's turn, hopefully it'll be back up soon.
Here's an example of his work (donor is 35 Rem Bbl):

 

[75Vette]

KLYDE. Great posts! It's amazing what a half grain of powder will do for accuracy! I'll be watching this one to see what you end up with.