
While 40- and 45-grain bullets exit the muzzle at higher velocities, I find that any good 50-grain bullet at 3,000 fps bucks wind a bit better and is more effective on coyotes. 223 Remington is the one I choose most often. 204 shoot a bit flatter, but barrels chambered for them have to be cleaned more often during hot-barrel critter shoots.

When it comes to picking off varmints at long range with a Contender, my favorite cartridges are the. Caliber options in handgun, carbine, and rifle barrels range from. A single Contender has the capability of serving as an entire battery of firearms at far less cost than for a battery made up of other types of guns. The Contender has to be considered one of the all-time great firearms designs simply because it is capable of being so many different things to so many different people with so many different interests. In other words, the Contender was the right idea in the right place at the right time.

On top of all that, it was affordable, and it proved to be extremely accurate. With its interchangeable-barrel capability and a hammer design that allowed both rimfire and centerfire cartridges to be used, the Contender was like nothing anyone had previously seen. It went on to enjoy great success primarily because each new option increased its versatility far beyond other handgun designs.

Contender sales started slowly, but its popularity among hunters and shooters grew as each new option was introduced by T/C.
