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Re: factory 23" tc contender bbl 204 ruger flop [message #16193 is a reply to message #16191] Wed, 21 November 2012 22:04 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Firedog23 is currently offline  Firedog23
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What do you guys think about a 204 pro hunter barrel that has been cut down to 22in? I know the velocity will go down due to a shorter barrel but do groups usually tighten up due to a stiffer barrel? Just wondering

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Re: factory 23" tc contender bbl 204 ruger flop [message #16195 is a reply to message #16193] Wed, 21 November 2012 23:03 Go to previous messageGo to next message
fishcoho is currently offline  fishcoho
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whats up firedog23, i myself was in alaska's 297'th sct bn ak gaurd/reserve in my younger years. hows thing's going for you in the middle of alaska? i'm located way down river from you, the lower yukon river. don't know much about why thing's work the way they do, just that they work, or not. dave 22250, peanut or crubear may know the answers to your questions...fish

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Re: factory 23" tc contender bbl 204 ruger flop [message #16196 is a reply to message #16195] Thu, 22 November 2012 00:10 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Firedog23 is currently offline  Firedog23
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Fiiiish yeah I'm a firefighter in the Air Force and have been stationed here for about 3 years. Things are good here just a little chilly (-20) my wife and I took some nice black bears with our bows off the Yukon river this year. Good to meet ya

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Re: factory 23" tc contender bbl 204 ruger flop [message #16197 is a reply to message #16196] Thu, 22 November 2012 00:45 Go to previous messageGo to next message
fishcoho is currently offline  fishcoho
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haha, -20 is a heatwave compaired to whats comming in a few months up river, but you know that. my bbl is 23" long factory 204. think it was a little ruff when i first took it out. bullets flying everywhere. it seems to be smoothing out now. did you get your firearm secondhand or you just wanting to cut it down? post some re-load data so we can trade info...fish

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Re: factory 23" tc contender bbl 204 ruger flop [message #16198 is a reply to message #16197] Thu, 22 November 2012 00:57 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Firedog23 is currently offline  Firedog23
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Yeah it's secondhand. Guy from Kodiak is sending it up it was cut down and hasn't had many rounds put through it. That would be great to get some info

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Re: factory 23" tc contender bbl 204 ruger flop [message #16290 is a reply to message #16198] Sun, 25 November 2012 15:15 Go to previous messageGo to next message
fishcoho is currently offline  fishcoho
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just when i started thinking the bbl was plaining out, it's starts swinging bullets around. i went to sight in scope with the less than 1/2" grouping rounds. then, pushing a copper solvent soaked patch on a jag thru the bbl stops 2 thirds of the way to the muzzle. from there on, it's like pushing coarse sand paper. i'm starting to have doubts with this bbl.

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Re: factory 23" tc contender bbl 204 ruger flop [message #16627 is a reply to message #16290] Tue, 04 December 2012 13:14 Go to previous messageGo to next message
fishcoho is currently offline  fishcoho
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Update. Tc wants me to send 204 barrel back and get it exchanged. I can visably see chamber not center with bore. That's why bullets are walking around. I held both barrels together, the 204 and the 22 hornet. Pointed them up into the skylight. I can see the hornets chamber which has been shooting good for over twenty years, its rifling is uniform in height and its base starts evenly. Then I look into the 204's the rifling is thicker towards one side of the barrel and thinner on the other. Clearly the chamber doesn't line up with the bore. It's cut off to one side.

This barrel is a flop. Ladies and gentelman, if your barrel can't hold it's groups together, and when you take it out for the first time , your impacts are walking all over the target. Stop shooting, pull on the trigger guard, break open the Barrel, hold firmly into the skylight and inspect you chamber. If you can visably see its not lined up like mine is, your barrel is a flop.

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Re: factory 23" tc contender bbl 204 ruger flop [message #16628 is a reply to message #16627] Tue, 04 December 2012 13:20 Go to previous message
dave22250 is currently offline  dave22250
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Oh Man,you'll be in heaven shooting lights out now

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