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Offline Camp Cook

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Contender 23" carbine 204 Ruger load data needed???
« on: February 06, 2010, 06:43:37 AM »
I just lucked into a NIB 23" Contender carbine barrel for about 1/2 price of what I would normally have to pay up here in Canada...   :)

Are there any Contender carbine 204 Ruger shooters out there that have any thoughts/comments/reload data for this combo...


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Re: Contender 23" carbine 204 Ruger load data needed???
« Reply #1 on: February 08, 2010, 03:32:14 AM »
I have three of them. Two factory barrels and one MGM. All are excellent shooters and I use them exclusively for prairie doggin. Mine like a 32 gr. Sierra over a max dose of RL-10x, lit with a BR-4.
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Re: Contender 23" carbine 204 Ruger load data needed???
« Reply #2 on: February 08, 2010, 06:51:43 AM »
27.5 or 28 grains varget with a rem 9.5 small rifle primer. 32 grain sierra.

have had two of these rifles and both shot way under 1/2" with that load.

one was .300" or so
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Re: Contender 23" carbine 204 Ruger load data needed???
« Reply #3 on: February 08, 2010, 09:17:03 AM »
What are your loading manuals telling you?
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Re: Contender 23" carbine 204 Ruger load data needed???
« Reply #4 on: February 10, 2010, 07:15:18 AM »
try 26 grains of aa2230 under a 40 gr vmax with a cci200 primer
may shoot harder if you can shoot up to max
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Re: Contender 23" carbine 204 Ruger load data needed???
« Reply #5 on: February 10, 2010, 07:38:55 AM »
Quote from: FredWT on February 08, 2010, 09:17:03 AM
What are your loading manuals telling you?

uh...you weren't supposed to ask that :)
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Re: Contender 23" carbine 204 Ruger load data needed???
« Reply #6 on: February 10, 2010, 04:40:14 PM »
Quote from: mjbgalt on February 08, 2010, 06:51:43 AM
27.5 or 28 grains varget with a rem 9.5 small rifle primer. 32 grain sierra.

have had two of these rifles and both shot way under 1/2" with that load.

one was .300" or so

I hope He means 7 1/2 rem primers. NOT "9 1/2".  I would hate to ream to fit the large rifle primers. 
This is why you check Manuals as well.  ;D 
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Re: Contender 23" carbine 204 Ruger load data needed???
« Reply #7 on: February 10, 2010, 06:43:45 PM »
Quote from: skb2706 on February 10, 2010, 07:38:55 AM
Quote from: FredWT on February 08, 2010, 09:17:03 AM
What are your loading manuals telling you?

uh...you weren't supposed to ask that :)

Sorry, sorta slipped out. ;)
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Re: Contender 23" carbine 204 Ruger load data needed???
« Reply #8 on: February 11, 2010, 12:35:19 AM »
oh now i get what you were saying. whoops. yeah, rem SR primers.
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Re: Contender 23" carbine 204 Ruger load data needed???
« Reply #9 on: February 11, 2010, 01:53:40 AM »
This is what I use in mine.
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Re: Contender 23" carbine 204 Ruger load data needed???
« Reply #10 on: February 11, 2010, 05:32:21 AM »
oops i did the same thing with primers
I ment to say cci400 instead of cci200
sorry
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Re: Contender 23" carbine 204 Ruger load data needed???
« Reply #11 on: February 12, 2010, 03:59:39 AM »
Quote from: skb2706 on February 10, 2010, 07:38:55 AM
Quote from: FredWT on February 08, 2010, 09:17:03 AM
What are your loading manuals telling you?

uh...you weren't supposed to ask that :)

Yeah... yeah... very funny guys... seeing as you are so enlightened where does one find a T/C Contender carbine specific reloading manual do you have one that you can share date from or do you have personal Contender specific data because I don't...
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Re: Contender 23" carbine 204 Ruger load data needed???
« Reply #12 on: February 12, 2010, 08:34:56 AM »
I have an old one that does not include newer rounds. But for my .204 Rugers I use chambering specific data and do just fine. There is plenty of good loading data available...check out  204Ruger.com and click on loading data. It is material taken directly from Hornady/Sierra/others right from their books.
Powders I have found that work very well include WW748, RL-15, RL10x, H322 but there are plenty of others. My .204s don't seem to be to picky about such things.

PS when you ask for specific loading data online you set yourself up for some serious potential issues. Not the least of which include typos, number transposing, misguided handloaders way overloading, errors of every imaginable component. Go to published info to confirm anything you read anywhere online.
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Re: Contender 23" carbine 204 Ruger load data needed???
« Reply #13 on: February 18, 2010, 04:49:58 PM »
Finally got to the club with 32gr V-Max & Ballistic Tips I used H335 & H322 powders it was very easy to push these bullets with either powder from 3750fps - 4030fps.

I was a very windy day so my accuracy wasn't what I should be getting averaged around 1" @ 100 yards with all the loads I tried.
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