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There was a fire in the 90s that destroyed the factory where the original Contender was made, and that was the end of first generation production. But they redesigned it and called it G2 and started making them again. I'm not sure if they are still in production, but I stick with the G1 anyway. They are available for about $400 from GunBroker and such.

There are ways to shoot them off hand that I think are much easier than a more standard handgun, but I've always tried to find a brace. I have also used mine with a .22 barrel and a scope for squirrel hunting with a dog. That's a lot of fun, but my dogs got old and died and I'm too old to raise new ones.

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I'm probably the odd duck here but I've never enjoyed shooting .22 pistols that much. I love shooting handguns but lean toward the .44 or .45 caliber variety. Pre 29 Smith, 1911 Colts and my favorite FA in .454 Casull. I do tend to grin a bit when ringing the steel targets in the back yard with a heavy hard cast linotype bullet running pretty hot....

Ken you are indeed odd. The only pistol that I find to be any fun is my Stevens 35.

Sheesh, since Ted was thinking .222�s I had to dig mine out. Still works decent, it looks easily minute of coyote when I ran it out to four hundred yards. Then, this thread made me dig out my old Contender. It�s got me thinking about the .44 too. It�s been a while for some of these things for me.

Wish you were my neighbor. I�d give you some ammunition for your .222. Wonder of wonders, I have a Ruger .44 magnum carbine, also.

Fired it once, about 1982.

Best,
Ted

Coosa, what caliber do you use for deer? I shot the 10" 7 MM TCU wildcat cartridge competitively and it was incredibly accurate. In developing the loads for our guns, a buddy, Russ, and I shot them with a 6x extended relief scope off sandbags. Russ could shoot 5 shot groups at 100 meters that were sub half-inch. In competition, we were limited to leaf sights. I don't think the round was suitable for deer, at least back then, because the 7 mm bullet wouldn't expand at the velocities we shot. I had a custom unlimited gun built on the action by Vern Juenke, a gunsmith in Nevada. It shot a rimmed European cartridge. It was a tack driver with his custom adjustable peep sight on a 14" barrel. Gil

Gunter:

You can pick a T/C Contender up around here for under $500 and barrels run from about $175-$250 depending on chambering and style.

I own one for which I have 5 barrels: .22 octagon with iron sights, .22 octagon with scope, .22 Hornet with scope,.256 Winchester with iron sights, and .30 Herrett. I'm thinking of trying to take a deer with the Herrett. Most of the shots where I hunt are in the 60-75 yard range and I'm pretty sure a properly placed 125 grain spitzer would do the trick at those ranges.

Rem

I shot a stock Thompson Contender chambered in .30-30 Win. in IHMSA competition, back in the '80s. Of course, it was all iron sight shooting. I hand loaded my ammo using RE7 and 150 gr. spitzers. We shot from 50 meters at the chickens, out to 200 meters at the rams.

I didn't like the rules adopted by IHMSA concerning shooting a score higher than your current class, so quit after a few months. Killed a buck with it, that I rattled up, then sold it to a friend. Good guns, but very limited in use, IMO.

SRH

Stan, tie breakers were chickens at 200 meters, then index cards. We'd shoot at Godley Road and near Charleston. Gil