I'm a long time contender guy since 1982. Have 2 gen1's with the old hammer slide bolt safety where you have to change it center or rim within the hammer face with a screwdriver, etc. I go from 17 Mach 2 to 204 Ruger (wow what a great caliber). Within I have a 22 match 9 3/4 with a m8-2 Leupold on it, tac driver! Just picked up the SSK/50 receiver designed for nearly all g1 and g2 barrels, excellent!
Good evening buddy. Just finshed this Friday at 830pm try to watch at work on down time. Cool looking barrel. I been temp few those. One 14inch was 357max . Guy used hunt deer in ohio with let go bc pick up few different big boar wheel guns. Also one 7mm tmu /22mag and 357 mag barrel. Passed on it also. Busy day tomorrow got work early 😴 and run over vw look at a used suv .replace my car blown electrical that I got rid bankruptcy. I got beater of my wifes mom's need give back
The Contender is such a nice system. All my barrels and grips are for the pistol configuration. The 14" 45-70 barrel can be quite a handful. On the opposite end the 256 Win Mag provides a lot of power with very little recoil.
What a nice looking rifle! I'm grateful you took all the dangerous risk for us today. Makes me feel so much safer. I'll be looking for a video of trying ammo out with that barrel.
Thirty some odd years ago I traded a .32 Walther ppk to my dad for a Contender with a. 14" .45-70 barrel and I've been hooked on them ever since. With barrels ranging from 10 - 24 inches in calibers from .22 lr to 45-70 it's been a blast. My newest barrel is a 22" MGM barrel chambered in .25-20 wcf. It has been a daunting task trying to locate brass for it though. The .256 win. sure looks nice right about now LOL.
That is going to make one accurate set up for you I hope. Will be interesting to see how much of a difference the die makes with it. Take care my friend
I'm not sure what happens on rumble sometimes. It seems like I can't find people I search for and then they just show up. The actual channel name there is Cwlongshot. I don't know if the capitalization mashed any difference, but that's how it is on his page there.
@@davem4193 Yes sir Dave!! I don't know that we will see actual Contenders. As there rights may have been sold to SSK. But Encores for sure! Hopefully the barrels for G1 & 2 guns!
@cw2a good to know, I knew someone was producing Contender frames but I wasn't sure who. Hopefully TC reopens the Fox Ridge custom shop they used to have.
@cw2a yes, I live in NH so I used to go there to buy barrels. I never got a custom barrel there, just factory offerings but I remember it was reasonable to get custom barrels back then. Yes, I have been following the new owner here on YT. I'm so glad he brought it back to NH. I know someone who used to work there. You got me curious about the SSK Contender. I did some reading and found an article about it. From the best I can tell SSK didn’t actually buy the rights to the Contender. Apparently the patents ran out on the G1 so SSK makes a stainless version of the easy open G1. They named it the SSK-50 because they can't legally name it the Contender, the name is still owned by TC.
