Thompson Center Contender

The Weaver Top-Mount scope base for the Thompson Center Contender is machined to the tightest tolerances for a consistent zero and easy mounting of your optic of choice. Designed to align correctly with the factory scope mounting points on your firearm this lightweight aluminum base fights the effects of recoil with precision machined square cross slots that match up with the mounting lug or cross bolt in your detachable scope rings.

The most unusual characteristic of the Contender is how the barrel is attached to the body. by removing the fore-give up, a big hinge pin is uncovered; by using pushing this hinge pin out, the barrel may be eliminated. because the sights and extractor continue to be attached to the barrel in the Contender design, the body itself consists of no cartridge-unique features.

A barrel of some other caliber or length can be installed and pinned in place, the fore-end changed, and the pistol is prepared to shoot with a one-of-a-kind barrel and pre-aligned attractions. This allowed easy changes of calibers, points of interest, and barrel lengths, with most effective a flat screwdriver being required for this transformation

The Contender body has firing pins, and a selector at the uncovered hammer, to allow the shooter to select between rimfire or centerfire firing pins, or to pick out a protection position from which neither firing pin can strike a primer. The initial baseline design of the Contender had no valuable safe function on the hammer, having only centerfire and rimfire firing pin positions, every being selectable thru the usage of a screwdriver.

3 variants of the authentic Contender design have been later advanced, outstanding without difficulty with the aid of the hammer layout. the first variation has a push button selector at the hammer for selecting rimfire vs. centerfire, the second version has a left-center-right toggle transfer for choosing center hearth-secure-rimfire firing pins, and the third variation has a horizontal bolt choice for choosing center fireplace-secure-rimfire firing pin positions.

All 3 of these Contender versions have a cougar etched on the sides of the receiver, thereby without difficulty distinguishing them from the later G2 Contender which has a easy-sided receiver with out an etched cougar. a number of the very earliest Contenders, the ones requiring a screwdriver to switch the firing pin between rimfire and centerfire, had clean facets, without the cougar etched on the sides

The authentic Contender designs have an adjustable trigger, allowing the shooter to change both take-up and overtravel, allowing person choice of a range of trigger pulls starting from a reasonably heavy trigger pull suitable for wearing the pistol while searching to a “hair trigger” appropriate for lengthy range target taking pictures.

in contrast to the later G2 Contender, the unique Contender can be adequately dry-fired (provided the hammer isn’t always drawn back from the second notch) to allow a shooter to end up familiar with the cause pull. The destroy-motion best needs to be cycled, while leaving the hammer inside the 2d notch position, to exercise dry-firing. G2’s with switchable firing pins (centerfire or rimfire) may be accurately dry-fired with the hammer only inside the protection (middle) role