Remembering back in the mid 80's I was advised to head space the Win 30-30 on the shoulder, not the rim. That supposedly compensated for a loose lockup on the early Contenders.

You had to hand load your cartridges, of course, and back off the loading die a few twist until it worked. Too much work for a new hand loader (me) so I traded the 30-30 barrel for something else.

Somewhere in my collection of T/C stuff I have the first four or five years of the Thompson/Center association magazines. That's where we got all of our Contender scoop. This was before Al Gore invented the internet.

Now it's all on the web. Thanks Al.

Yeah, thanks AL.

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