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Offline hunter

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Contender pressures
« on: February 10, 2006, 11:34:15 AM »
HI All

Question--there's a web site that listed the max. chamber  pressures for the different contender cals.--i seem to have misplaced it. Can anyone help. Thank you.

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« Reply #1 on: February 11, 2006, 09:45:57 AM »
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« Reply #2 on: February 12, 2006, 01:52:44 AM »
Gavinator, if you have that could you please post it so all of us can see it?

Thanks.

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« Reply #3 on: February 12, 2006, 08:41:54 PM »
It's on ****** web-site on tripod.com
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« Reply #4 on: February 13, 2006, 12:57:24 AM »
Hmmm.  Thank you.

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« Reply #5 on: February 18, 2006, 08:08:54 PM »
Gavinator,
If you could be so kind...could you e-mail me the link as well?

Thanks a bunch!

vonfatman @yahoo.com
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« Reply #6 on: February 20, 2006, 07:23:42 AM »
How does one go about checking the pressure of a load even if you know what the chart says?bj
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« Reply #7 on: February 20, 2006, 11:08:19 AM »
For most people case head expansion compared to a known load.

 If you are shooting a wildcat things get tougher.
 Does the action open as normal? Or is it hard to open?
 Does the fired case extract freely?
 If you index a cartridge before firing, can you, after firing the round, remove then re-insert it and close the action to make the saftey interlock work properly? And while closing the action normaly, not snapping it shut.
 Can the case head expansion be compared to the parent case?
 I know these methods don't tell you what the pressures are, but these are the signs of high to too high pressure.
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t/c contender vs encore pressures
« Reply #8 on: February 27, 2006, 12:39:42 AM »
GUESS I AM OUT IN THE COLD . I NEVER FOUND SUCH DATA AND WOULD BE INTERESTED...HOWEVER I WOULD BE MUCH MORE INTERESTED ID SUCH DATA WAS AVAILABLE FOR THE ENCORE???
DOES IT EXCIST ???
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« Reply #9 on: February 27, 2006, 10:04:49 AM »
I have a list of SAAMI standard pressures. That is the same as what any factory firearm in any given chamber is suited to shoot - there are some exceptions - the 45 Colt in Ruger and Contender but it really doesn't matter what kind of pressures the gun will take. We have no way to measure pressures with close enough tolerances to decide if we are above or below the SAAMI standard pressures. We have to trust that the reloading specs we have in our many manuals provides us with safe loads in any firearm chambered for them.
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Hodgdon, Lyman, Speer, Sierra, Hornady = reliable resources
so and so's pages on the internet = not reliable resources
Alway check loads you find on the internet against manuals.
NEVER exceed maximum listed loads.
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