Is Ed's Contender the only one that sells used Cntender barrels online? and has a list of what they have??

http://www.bellmtcs.com/ has used barrels on occasion. Get on the mailing list. People on the list get first offer.

I don't know if Ed now updates his list online (I doubt it as he is EXTREMELY busy), but he generally has HUNDREDS of TC barrels. Call him for a list and he'll send it to you. It will be several pages long.

There is Specialty Pistols-forum. Make it via google.

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There is no place like Paytonplace

what kw said they wheel&deal barrels on there every day in just about any flavor you can think of.plus lots of good info.i go over there everyday.

Looking for 22RF, amd 22MAG barrels.14 or 15 Inch bull barrels. Eds contenders website is off line, anyone have a phone number.
Lyle
lylensuzi@yahoo.com

Anyone have a phone number for Eds, his website is down.
Lyle

Between 8:00AM and 6:00PM M-S
(405)-879-0879


Faxes may be sent to
(405)-843-9879

E-mail
edstc@cox.net

THANK YOU BOBBY

You are welcome.

I saw on another site that Ed's site had been down a while (server problems in his area) but is back up and running.

I sure wish he'd put his current incventory on his site -- or at least a link to it. On second thought, that would probably be a bad idea for my bank account...

There is an Encore and a Contender classifieds on Grey Beard (http://www.go2gbo.com/). You have to sign up to view them.

Whole bunch of barrels at this site:

http://www.ktpguns.com/interior.php/pid/28

Have ordered previously, believe list is up to date...........r in s.

I've bought and sold a number of barrels on Gun Broker.

Bob

http://www.gunbroker.com/

After about 25yrs shooting factory T/C barrels or trying to get them to shoot, I would never buy a factory made barrel unless I was going to rechamber or rebore or both to it. I have seen hand made 303's from Packistan that had better cut chambers than some T/C barrels.

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Originally posted by Fat_Albert:
After about 25yrs shooting factory T/C barrels or trying to get them to shoot, I would never buy a factory made barrel unless I was going to rechamber or rebore or both to it. I have seen hand made 303's from Packistan that had better cut chambers than some T/C barrels.

You must be very unlucky.If you float the barrels,use some type of oversize hinge pin and do a trigger job I have yet to have one that does not shoot under 1"MOA.I have 7MM08,6.5X55 ,223 for my Encore plus Muzzle loading barrels.For my TC 7TCU ,7-30 Waters ,221 Fireball The Muzzle loading barrels give me honest 2 MOA at a hundred yds.I have 35 Rem and 7-30 Waters in 14" in my Contender that shoot 1/2" at 100 yds.The only barrel that I bought from Bergara a 24" 243 was a piece of crap.It shot patterns,not groups.

I guess I've been lucky too...my 14" 7-30 Waters barrel will shoot dime groups at 100 yards every time I take it out to the range. This is with factory Federal Premium Ammo too! I've always preferred to be lucky!

Bob

I would not shy back from buying another t/c barrel. bad experiance with bergara as well.

Of course, I've found a sizable number of used contender and encore barrels right here in the classifieds

Probably bought about a third of my 20-odd T/C barrels from fellow AR members. Never hurts to search "contender" and encore" in the classifieds when you're poking around AR anyway...Pretty darn fair prices, too.

As for chambers, I tend to buy T/C barrels chambered in something slightly shorter than I intend for it to be and then properly cut a chamber. hence, my .375 H&H Encore started life as a .375 JDJ, etc. T/C often cuts chambers that aren't much concentric with the bores and the throats are all over the map at times. Worst barrel I ever got from them (purchased second hand from the fellow who ordered it from the cussed em shop, put a box through it, and decided he didn't like the recoil) was actually a custom shop .375 H&H, which is why I sold that one and made a JDJ into H&H with a proper chamber. Wasn't anything wrong with the rifling of the custom shop barrel, but the chamber and throat were really off.