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Yeah, I'm a revolver kind of gal, even though we shoot just about every other type of gun. Here's a few highlights from this week's shooting.

S&W 617
This is our basic workhorse 22 revolver. Bill and I each have our own. He prefers shooting with iron sights. Me, I prefer a red dot most days. 10 shot revolver, here, by the way.


Pretty average group with the 617. Can keep most in the black 3" bull.


Dan Wesson 715
The 715 is the stainless version of the better known blued Model 15, which I also have. I shoot the 15-2 with iron sights and this new production 715 with a Burris red dot.


These DW 357 revolvers have pretty much put a stop to my quest to find the perfect 357 revolver. Here's why.


Don't forget the Contenders
As some of you know, I'm also a Contender nut. Here's one of my favorites. It's a Contender with a ss 10" Match 22 LR barrel with a Leupold-Gilmore red dot with a 2 MOA dot.


And as some of you know, I've also said that I reserve a different standard of accuracy for my Contenders. Not really fair to compare conventional guns to a Contender. Here's why.


Need to get out and shoot some rifles, next, but never go too long without shooting revolvers.

All very nice wheel guns, NCG. Especially think that the Contender has really beautiful furniture. Maybe some day I'll be able to reach out to 25 yards and produce a few well-marked revolver targets. Some great shooting there for your week's highlights.

PT7

VERY impressive NCG! love them all and their work. You do the justice for these fine guns as proven above!

It's always hard to pick which is the more impressive, the pics of the targets or the pics of the hardware that helped punch the holes in the targets.

And, as usual, I don't have to pick, so I won't. They're all great.

Thanks for sharing.

Nice shooting, high quality pics. Thanks

I dont pick anymore either. Hands down revolvers. Autos just dont get much play time at my house.

Great shooting with those nice revolvers. Always enjoy your reports.

Couple of really nice wheel guns for sure but the T/C has always been a favorite of mine, especially in the Herretts, TCUs and some other specialty calibers. There's a reason you hold the T/C to a different level and anyone who has spent any time with one knows what that reason is. BTW gotta tell ya, I agree with Bill on the irons. Kinda like the difference between driving a stick or automatic. But I'm not a fanatic about it. Good shootin.

Great shooting and as usual leave it to NCG to introduce yet another firearm I had yet to be aware of. That Contender looks real cool. Had to spend sometime checking that one out.

Thanks, guys. Glad you enjoyed the post.

Yes, Contenders are a different breed of gun in every way. Not only can you change barrels and be shooting a different cartridge in a minute, you also shoot them differently than conventional handguns. Takes experience with them to get all that accuracy out of them, but well worth it to me. Been shooting Contenders since the mid 80s and still learning what these amazing guns can do, though.

BigAl, yes, we also have some semi-autos and nice ones, too, but we just always seem to fall back on revolvers when it comes time to head to the range. Some trips, that's all we shoot, in fact. They suit us.

Oh, I still shoot a lot of irons on my handguns, including the Contenders, but the red dots have kept me shooting up to my potential, now that my eyes are getting old. That, and I have allergies, this time of year, and that also complicates using iron sights at times. Yesterday was such a day, though I did shoot some irons, too.

Here's another Contender, this one in blue, also wearing another 22 LR Match barrel, but set up with a micro adjustable, excellent silhouette style sight.


Wasn't able to hold group size down to the red dot equipped version, but still matches what I could do with the red dot equipped Smith revolver. Pretty mediocre target for this rig, compared to what I've done in the past, but yesterday was one of those red dot days for me, as I said.

I found the part of being able to use different barrels and calibers extremely interesting and of course the fact that they are supposedly very accurate.

Before this the one shot I had always been looking at and considering was the Anschutz Exemplar. Unfortunately this isn't being made any longer.

The Exemplar lives on in that Anschutz still makes bolt action target pistols, but they don't have the features that made the Examplar the dominating gun in rimfire silhouette for the four years or so it was made, late in the silhouette game before silhouette declined in popularity with the onset of the action shooting sports in the early 90s or so. Hard gun to find, now, but not that many were made in the first place. Definitely a specialty pistol.

Here's mine and, no, it is NOT for sale. Two stage factory adjustable trigger set at 8 ounces at the factory, but you can safely go lower. Have shot it with a rifle scope, taco style, also with a red dot, but now I shoot it with the superb factory sights. This gun will shoot under half inch at 50 yards, same as our best 22 rifles.

VERY nice NCG!!

Here's just one of the family but it was my first action. Bought it in April of '82 and I've no idea how many different barrels have been on it. This is a 14" 7TCU that sees regular use. Specialty pistols have always been intriguing to me and I have a few but I just never got into shooting rimfire in them and don't know why. Guess I really shouldn't say that since I do have a Chipmunk Hunter in 22 WMR that the granddaughter tries to wear out and it is a shooter also.

Nice...looks like Pachmyers on there!

markiver54 wrote: ↑

Wed Jun 19, 2019 1:14 pm

Nice...looks like Pachmyers on there!

Yessir and a Redfield mount. This barrel has spent a lot of time in the woods and they don't get torn up easily. I have assorted wood furniture I actually prefer but I'm too anal about taking care of things.

Just for giggles, heres the 22WMR Chipmonk Hunter I mentioned earlier. If you want something that's inexpensive and shoots like a high dollar gun these fill the bill. The way they're set up they're rather tedious to do any trigger work to but beyond that they work well for cheap.

Never seen one quite like that OS. I know some don't like the laminate furniture appearance, however, looks pretty cool on that one!

markiver54 wrote: ↑

Wed Jun 19, 2019 1:36 pm

Never seen one quite like that OS. I know some don't like the laminate furniture appearance, however, looks pretty cool on that one!

They've been around a long time and in varying configurations. I've had this one a dozen years or so. Got it from Buds. Believe it or not it handles extremely well shooting it offhand also due to the stock design even though it's actually made to shoot from a rest. https://www.budsgunshop.com/catalog/sea ... nter&type=

I've always been tempted by those Chipmunks, given my love for specialty pistols. Good info in case I run into one.

Yeah, the 7 TCU is one of the all time great Contender cartridges. For those of you who don't know, it's a 223 necked up to 7mm. Cheap to shoot, mild to shoot, cheap to make and very effective for knocking down steel or hunting within its range. Always surprised me that the big ammo makers haven't loaded it, commercially.