Contents.History In the 1960s, Warren Center developed an unusual break-action, single-shot pistol in his basement workshop that later became known as the Contender. Meanwhile, the K.W. Thompson Tool Company had been searching for a product to manufacture year-round.

In 1965, Warren Center joined the K.W. Thompson Tool Company, and together, they announced Warren Center's Contender pistol in 1967. Although it sold for more than comparable hunting revolvers, the flexibility of being able to shoot multiple calibers by simply changing out the barrel and sights and its higher accuracy soon made it popular with handgun hunters. Thompson Tool began marketing Center's Contender pistol, the company name was changed to Thompson/Center Arms Company. Contender in 45 Colt/.410 with ventilated ribThe Contender, first introduced in 1967, is a break-action, single-shot pistol or rifle with a number of unique features.

The first unique feature is the way the barrel is attached to the frame. By removing the fore-end, a large hinge pin is exposed; by pushing this hinge pin out, the barrel can be removed. Since the sights and extractor remain attached to the barrel in the Contender design, the frame itself contains no cartridge-specific features. A barrel of another caliber can be installed and pinned in place, the fore-end replaced, and the pistol is ready to shoot with a different barrel and pre-aligned sights. This allowed easy changes of calibers, sights, and barrel lengths, with only a flat screwdriver being required for change-out. Install virtualbox without admin privileges vista. The Encore The Encore was released in 1983. The Encore uses a different trigger mechanism, designed to be stronger than the original Contender's and to make the break-action easier to open.

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The Encore uses a considerably larger and stronger frame than the Contender, and accordingly, is found in over 86 cartridges - ranging from to the huge. There has even been one pistol-length stainless barrel made in.600 Nitro Express. The Encore barrel list also includes shotgun barrels in 28, 20, and 12 gauge, and muzzleloading barrels in.45,.50 caliber, and 12 gauge using #209 shotgun primers. In 2007, Encore rimfire barrels became available in 22 LR and 17 HMR, featuring a unique monoblock design that required no alteration to the frame assembly.An upgraded Encore is called the Pro Hunter which generally includes stocks with rubber 'Flex Tech' inserts and are stainless or carbon steel with weather shielding.

There are other slight differences among the rifles including the breech plug on muzzleloader versions. The Contender G2 The original Contender, now known as the generation one (G1) Contender, was replaced by the G2 Contender soon after the Encore came out.

The G2 Contender is essentially dimensionally the same as the original Contender, but uses an Encore style trigger group. Due to the changes in the trigger mechanism, and to differences in the angle of the grip relative to the boreline of the gun, the buttstocks and pistol grips are different between the G1 and G2 Contenders and will not interchange. The G2, though, uses essentially the same barrels and fore-ends as the original Contender and barrels will interchange, with the only two exceptions being the G2 muzzleloading barrels, which will only fit the G2 frame, and the Herrett barrels/fore-ends, which are specific for use only on a G1 frame.Unlike the original Contender, dry-firing of the G2 Contender is possible only in the center (safe) hammer position, located on the hammer between the centerfire and rimfire positions.

Also, unlike the original Contender, the break-action does not need to be opened/closed (cycled) to practice dry-firing, provided the hammer is lowered between dry firing 'shots'. The adjustability of G2 Contender triggers is also slightly different from the original G1 Contender.General legalities The receiver on a Contender, whether G1 or G2, is the portion of the combined grip/buttstock assembly containing the trigger mechanism, and this is legally considered the serial-numbered gun. Hence, barrels with iron or telescopic sights, and even the hinge pin, are all simply gun parts, with no serial numbers, making the choice of changing cartridges from a multitude of rimfire, centerfire rifle and pistol cartridges, and even shotgun shells, very simple.It is possible to fit a shoulder stock on a pistol frame in place of a pistol grip, and, when combined with a 16' or longer barrel (see 'Thompson/Center Arms and the Supreme Court' below), a Contender may be legally converted from a pistol to a rifle or reversed. Although it is technically possible to fit a pistol grip on an original Contender rifle frame, and use a pistol barrel to convert it from being a rifle to a pistol, this is not legal in the USA, being an illegal creation of a pistol from a rifle.

In order to be able to go back and forth, the receiver must have been originally sold as a pistol, per rules.California Legalities See. Possession of a Thompson/Center Arms.45/.410 pistol barrel is illegal in California, for both dealers and individuals, and such a barrel may not legally be shipped into the state, or even taken into California for a hunting trip, by reason of it being classified as a short barreled shotgun (SBSG) when used with a Contender receiver.Muzzleloading rifles. TC Hawken percussion rifleThompson/Center manufactures a variety of rifles of both traditional and inline designs, and sells percussion and flintlock rifles in a wide variety of bore diameters. Some of the better-known models are the Renegade, the, the Big Boar, and the White Mountain.The traditional Thompson/Center muzzleloaders are largely responsible for the resurgence of black powder hunting that began in the U.S. In 1970 when Warren Center designed the firm's Hawken-styled rifle. Thompson/Center's reintroduced Hawken-styled rifle with solid brass hardware and an American walnut stock, styled in large part on 'plains rifles' made by Hawken in the 1800s, has become one of the most-copied firearms designs in history. Thompson/Center Scout Black Powder Muzzleloader Pistol chambered in.54.Patriot:Barrel: 9” octagonal,Trigger: double set,Caliber:.36 &.45,Stock: American Walnut,Status: discontinued 1997,Ignition: percussion.Scout:Barrel: 15” round,Trigger: single set,Caliber: 45, 50 & 54,Stock: American Walnut,Status: discontinued 199?,Ignition: percussion.A major factory fire at the Thompson/Center factory in 1996 destroyed all tooling and parts for the Scout and Patriot pistols and the Seneca rifle.

As a result they were discontinued for sale. Van Zwoll, Wayne (2006). Hunter's Guide to Long-Range Shooting. Stackpole Books. P. 332.

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Retrieved January 29, 2013. As used in this section, a 'short-barreled shotgun' means any of the following: (A) A firearm which is designed or redesigned to fire a fixed shotgun shell and having a barrel or barrels of less than 18 inches in length.

(B) A firearm which has an overall length of less than 26 inches and which is designed or redesigned to fire a fixed shotgun shell. Warriors orochi 3 cheats. Towsley, Bryce (2003). 'The Mighty Hawken'. Hunting Magazine. 15 (6). Mark Blazis (December 7, 2012). From the original on September 21, 2016.

Retrieved September 21, 2016. (1992). Cornell University. Retrieved October 21, 2009.External links. corporate website., specializing in Contender, G2, and Encore barrels., listing of some of T/C's muzzleloader guns with pictures and specifications.

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