Does any know if TC ever made a barrel in 6mm Remington for the G1 Contender?
What are the pressure limits on the TC Contender Frame?
I'm asking because a local guy is selling one in 6mm Remington.
Thanks for your Help
MGM lists 6mm Rem as Encore only, so I'd say TC never chambered a barrel in it and it's not a chambering that is suitable for the Contender platform, it's comparable to the 243 Win.
I'm sure the pressures are too high even for the G2 frame. As quickdloo said its it around the 243 win pressures so Encore only chambering for this round.
The 6mm TCU is a fine round in a 14" barrel. Not sure about the twist rate in a T/C barrel but I have a 1-12 twist MGM barrel that is my best shooter of a the barrels I have. It shoots the 65 grain V-maxs at 1/2" 100yards all day long. With dies available and brass that's cheap it would be a nice barrel to add to a collection if you reload.
6MM TCU rifle or pistol factory barrels are 1:10. I tried 100 grn. Hornady bullets (not sure which ones) and they key holed @ 25 yards. 65 grn vmax shot lights out of a super 14" bbl.
Wow, I would think 1-10 would be fine for 100gr. I think Most .243 WCF are 1-10. My 6mm Ruger M77 is an older 1-9 and it likes 80-100 grain pills. Perhaps the shorter barrel of the contender is the problem for the 100 grainers.
Thanks for the input.
On the contender platform, with a .243" bullet the 6 TCU will be hard to beat... maybe by the 6x47 Remington because it's based on the 222 Rem Mag.
Here's my 6TCU with 16" Bbl w/tamer
I have both a 6x47 (6x222 Rem Mag) and a 6 TCU in Contender carbine barrels. Both are aftermarket barrels. The 6 TCU is scary accurate with the now obsolete Hornady 80gr single shot pistol bullet.
We'd all like to think some "gun plumber", who fancies himself a "gunsmith" just because he's got a 6 Rem reamer he hasn't destroyed yet, and a cordless drill wouldn't do the unthinkable... And actually rechamber something safe into something stupid, but... ?
It's the 6x47 Lapua that is based on the 308 case, not the Remington.
The latter would operate at safe levels in the contender just as the 204 Ruger does.
If it is actually a 6X47 Lapua then NO it is not safe in the contender but if it is the plain old 6X47 based off the 222 Mag. case then yes it will be fine.
There is the "original" 6x47, which is a 222 Rem Mag case, necked up to 6mm.
Then there is the "new" 6x47 Lapua, which some folks get lazy when they write or say it just as "6x47", without the "L".
But the OP was originally asking about a 6mm Remington. Which is neither of those. It was based on the 257 Roberts case (which came from the 7x57 Mauser).
Where as the "243 Win" came from a necked down 308 case.
But the point I was trying to make earlier was, that even though no company would have chambered an original barrel in "6mm Remington" for a Contender, it doesn't mean some backyard garage "gunsmith" couldn't have taken a 6 TCU, 6x47 (6x222 Rem Mag), 6 JDJ barrel and done the "unthinkable"... Ran a 6mm Remington chamber reamer down that original chamber and "made one".
So the guy that told the OP that he "had one" (6mm Remington chambered Contender barrel), is hopefully mistaken. But it is *possible*. And also scary.
But the point I was trying to make earlier was, that even though no company would have chambered an original barrel in "6mm Remington" for a Contender, it doesn't mean some backyard garage "gunsmith" couldn't have taken a 6 TCU, 6x47 (6x222 Rem Mag), 6 JDJ barrel and done the "unthinkable"... Ran a 6mm Remington chamber reamer down that original chamber and "made one".
So the guy that told the OP that he "had one" (6mm Remington chambered Contender barrel), is hopefully mistaken. But it is *possible*. And also scary.
When I questioned the add guy about what 6mm was in this add, he was adamant that it was 6mm REM to the point he told me he used factory 100 grain corelokt ammo which he would include in the deal. I reload for 6mm Remington as I have had a Ruger M77 chambered in 6mm Rem for many years. To think someone would have a barrel re-chambered to a 6mm Remington I'm not sure how the extractor would survive such a modification unless the case base is the same size on the cartridges. Here is a picture from the Valley trader of the add.
My thinking as well. I'm thinking it's an Encore, which is perfectly doable and fine to shoot.
If it is indeed a Contender however, run. Run from the room waving your hands over your head and yelling, "Danger Will Robinson, Danger!"
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