50-70 - Ive had a ton of questions about this build...

Huey
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Saturday, September 15, 2018, 16:15 (2913 days ago)

Mostly about velocity and recoil.

The cartridge pushes a 450 grin 12-1400 fps from a 14" G2 Barrel. Lighter bullets not much faster.

I'd expect +200 fps from the Carbine length. The light bullets really gain with barrel length. No surprise to handgunners.

Hope this answers the velocity/power questions. Recoil isn't as bad as you'd think.

we have built a ton of them in the Contender. When our shop

Gary Reeder
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Saturday, September 15, 2018, 19:01 (2913 days ago) @ Huey

was in Florida every old fart wanted either a 50-70, 225 Winchester, 30-40, 303 British 22 Hornet, 44-40, 32 Win. Spl, 30 Carbine,250 Savage, 257 Roberts,300 Savage,9.3 X 72 and probably a lot of others that I can't think of right now. We bought out a lot of estates down there and there were some really amazing and unusual rifles and handguns in those estates. And like a dummy, I didn't hang on to them. Lots of drillings and I did hang on to quite a few of them, some Cape Guns also. When the double rifle and drilling craze hit a few years back I was offered way more than I had in them and sold them. The only one I miss was an old pre war German drilling with the bottom barrel 9.3 X 74, the right side 16 gauge barrel I put a Kreighoff 22 Magnum insert in it and the left side shotgun barrel I left as 16 gauge. .

I had a Caribou hunt up in Quebec/Labrador in '90 or '91 and no handguns allowed there so I brought my drilling. I took my 2 Caribou with the 9.3 X 74, an Arctic Fox with the 22 mag barrel and several Ptarmigan with the 16 gauge barrel. Drillings can be great guns if you get one of the good ones and in a caliber/gauge that are available.

So many of those are great Contender Cartridges...

Huey
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Sunday, September 16, 2018, 04:45 (2913 days ago) @ Gary Reeder

Have a few on my hit list. Want to catch up on a few auxiliary cylinder and barrels. Then do a 500 S&W Single Action.

I would suppose it is the volumous case

WB
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Sunday, September 16, 2018, 05:56 (2913 days ago) @ Gary Reeder

that keeps pressures down despite the huge surface area of the case head pushing on the little frame? One would think a frame would be sprung in short order. Lots of "i" in the psi acting on the breach face. Then again what limited "factory" ammo might be encountered would be BP pressure levels too. As long as no one does anything stupid.

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