SSK reboots the Contender

[Wheeler]

So I found this thread after scoring this G1 with a 10” .223 Rem barrel. It’s a little rough but the price was very right. I’ll eventually go the carbine route but want to score a .22 LR barrel first.

[OlongJohnson]

^That's not an easy-open frame. Not sure what the process would be in 2020 for converting it, but my understanding is it's preferred.

[Wise_A]

My club's elderly Board of Directors has yet again voted No Pistol Caliber Carbines on the open-air 75-yard pistol range with its enormous dirt backstops and berms. Handguns only. Because those PCCs accelerate ordinary 9mm to ear-splitting volumes!

Would .223 in a Contender pistol barrel be sufficiently obnoxious to make my point? I already have N-frames in .357 and .44 Magnum, but the irony isn't getting through to these deaf bastards.

[Wheeler]

^That's not an easy-open frame. Not sure what the process would be in 2020 for converting it, but my understanding is it's preferred.

You are correct. The frame is quite stiff when opening. It's so first gen that it requires a screwdriver to swap between rimfire and centerfire ad has a cross bolt safety with a protruding pin in the hammer.

[awp_101]

My club's elderly Board of Directors has yet again voted No Pistol Caliber Carbines on the open-air 75-yard pistol range with its enormous dirt backstops and berms. Handguns only. Because those PCCs accelerate ordinary 9mm to ear-splitting volumes!

Would .223 in a Contender pistol barrel be sufficiently obnoxious to make my point? I already have N-frames in .357 and .44 Magnum, but the irony isn't getting through to these deaf bastards.

Your BoDs sounds like a bunch of BoCs...

[Wheeler]

Your BoDs sounds like a bunch of BoCs...

I shot mine today. It is quite obnoxious. Recoil is roughly equivalent to running hot .158 grain 357s through a K frame. Noise is just loud. One of the guys on the rifle range said he heard me shooting when he came in the gate of our club with the windows up.

[olstyn]

I shot mine today. It is quite obnoxious. Recoil is roughly equivalent to running hot .158 grain 357s through a K frame. Noise is just loud. One of the guys on the rifle range said he heard me shooting when he came in the gate of our club with the windows up.

Yeah, having shot a .223 contender owned by my father in law, I concur with this. It's quite loud. The BoD in question seems not to be operating from a position of logic - IME with PCCs in USPSA, they're often quite a bit quieter than pistols, so...?

[Wheeler]

Yeah, having shot a .223 contender owned by my father in law, I concur with this. It's quite loud. The BoD in question seems not to be operating from a position of logic - IME with PCCs in USPSA, they're often quite a bit quieter than pistols, so...?

Yeah, I'se shot USPSA, SCSA, and Rimfire Challenge and I double up on ear pro when the consumers show up with their Open Guns with Loudeners on them. At a guess I'd suspect your BoD has another reason they don't want the PCCs on the range but don't want to come right out and say so.

[olstyn]

Yeah, I'se shot USPSA, SCSA, and Rimfire Challenge and I double up on ear pro when the consumers show up with their Open Guns with Loudeners on them. At a guess I'd suspect your BoD has another reason they don't want the PCCs on the range but don't want to come right out and say so.

Not my BoD, but you bring up a good point. @Wise_A should clearly borrow someone's 9mm major or .38 super Open gun to demonstrate to the BoD what loud truly is.

[JAD]

I swear 9x25 Dillon changes the density of the atmosphere.