any 7 tcu people here?

[JohnVH]

Kind of an oddball, got a contender barrel Im working up a load in for some close range deer/antelope

[Ridgeratt]

6.5 TCU now and then.

[mountainman]

Had a custom Remington XP100 with with a  rear grip Herret, 15" barrel, sillhouette sightsand added a Leupold 4X instead. Was a shooter but sold it about 25 years ago :-(

[HighlandLofts]

My son has the 7mmTCU on his Contender and uses it for shooting Whitetails back in New York State. I'm going to buy one for my Contender here shortly. He does his own reloading and has that caliber down.

[JohnVH]

My son has the 7mmTCU on his Contender and uses it for shooting Whitetails back in New York State. I'm going to buy one for my Contender here shortly. He does his own reloading and has that caliber down.

Perfect, do you know his load? I have some 120gr bullets and some 4227 powder ready to test out of a  super14 setup.

[yorketransport]

I run 20 gr of IMR 4198 with a 120 Ballistic tip from my 10" barrel. Shoots great and makes a great critter killer.
Andrew

[JohnVH]

I run 20 gr of IMR 4198 with a 120 Ballistic tip from my 10" barrel. Shoots great and makes a great critter killer.
Andrew

Have you ever chronyd it?

[yorketransport]

Not recently. I believe they were sitting right around 2000 fps. I'll see if I can dig up my info.

Andrew

[JohnVH]

cool, thanks, I loaded some 120gr noslers in front of 18, 19 and 20gr of IMR 4227

whenever I can get to a shooting spot Ill be testing them

[HighlandLofts]

I talked with my son earlier today, He's going to look up what he has and send it to me in a e mail. I'll forward it to you here. He's shot about eight or nine whitetails with his 7 tcu back in New York.
He bought a T/C Encore and bought the 270 barrel for deer hunting, He's got atleast a dozen deer with that combo.
 He only uses handguns for deer hunting. I gave him the Contender about ten years ago with two barrels and he has bought several others. My other son didn't want to other Contender I bought so I still have it, I'm going to buy several barrels for the one I have. I'm going to buy mostly fourteen inch barrels.

[headshot5]

I've have/had a few of them.  W748 does pretty nice, and meters really well.  I used to shoot 130's in all the pistol barrels. I used to use the old Sierra (single shot pistol) SSP's.  When those were discontinued I started using speer 130's.  Awesome on coyotes and deer.

I have shot 120's through 154's in my barrels.  They all shoot well. 

What length barrel is it?  I really enjoy the 10" over the Super 14's.   


Edit:  Also makes a heck of a cast bullet shooter.      

Post a picture if you get time.

[JohnVH]

its a super 14" The barrel is blued, my frame is stainless, I just couldnt find the 7tcu in a 14 stainless for the price I wanted to spend, all my other barrels are stainless 45-70 and .223, all in super14

[HighlandLofts]

John
 How's the recoil on the 45-70? I had a chance to get that in a 14" barrel and passed it up.

[yorketransport]

The 45-70 really isn't bad at all in a 14" Contender. If you can handle a 44 Mag, you can shoot a 45-70.

It was one of my favorite calibers until I reached a point where I wanted more power than I could safely get out of Contender. With heavy bullets it can keep up with the 454.

Andrew

[JohnVH]

4570 is fun. I shoot it one handed no problem, even my wife has shot it and likes it. That said, at 50yds it shoots great, at 100yds I'm still dialing it in.