SSK reboots the Contender

[Wheeler]

I finally came across a 30-30 barrel locally. It’s a 23” bull that I think will work quite handily with a carbine setup. I have an unused Vortex Venom that’s languishing in a pocket of my range bag that will get tried out first although I’ll probably go the route of a 1-4 LPVO.


The picture was just for fun but I suspect if I had a good shooting stick I could make it work.

[Zeke38]

I would love to have a 10" Bull Barrel 357 Maximum.

[awp_101]

[oregon45]

I would love to have a 10" Bull Barrel 357 Maximum.

SSK has one on their website.

[awp_101]

Is anyone still making ~16” .357 Encore barrels? Preferably Mag but a Max would suffice I suppose.

Part of me wants a .357 Mag Contender/Encore carbine as a replacement for my ugly but functional .357 Cadet. Of course another part of me says to keep the Cadet because I don’t shoot the rifles I currently have anyway.🙄

[mtnbkr]

Is anyone still making ~16” .357 Encore barrels? Preferably Mag but a Max would suffice I suppose.

Last time I looked, a year or two ago, MGM and other semi-custom barrel makers would. They're not terribly expensive either. I'd go with Max so you could shoot 3 cartridges from it.

Chris

[oregon45]

Is anyone still making ~16” .357 Encore barrels? Preferably Mag but a Max would suffice I suppose.

Part of me wants a .357 Mag Contender/Encore carbine as a replacement for my ugly but functional .357 Cadet. Of course another part of me says to keep the Cadet because I don’t shoot the rifles I currently have anyway.🙄

Here's one on SSK's website, 16.25" and threaded.

https://www.sskfirearms.com/357-rem-max-cbl16-25.html

[jandbj]

Here's one on SSK's website, 16.25" and threaded.

https://www.sskfirearms.com/357-rem-max-cbl16-25.html

SBR’d my Contender years ago… but THAT is tempting.

[Hambo]

Is anyone still making ~16” .357 Encore barrels? Preferably Mag but a Max would suffice I suppose.

Part of me wants a .357 Mag Contender/Encore carbine as a replacement for my ugly but functional .357 Cadet. Of course another part of me says to keep the Cadet because I don’t shoot the rifles I currently have anyway.🙄

If you reload, Mike Bellm says he can cut a .357 chamber deeper so you can seat bullets farther out and get very near to Max performance.

[OlongJohnson]

Got a phone call from Marty at Haus of Arms today. He finally has SSK-50 frames inbound and I'm on the list from when I put my name in however many years ago that was. So of course I said yes to a flatside. Price has gone up quite a bit, so I only bit on one. Hope I don't kick myself later for not getting two.