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Are Contenders a dying pastime?
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<blockquote data-quote="nksmfamjp" data-source="post: 2661084" data-attributes="member: 1951"><p>To me, theses are a great pistol that I haven't paid enough attention to since the 90's! Someone on here caught my eye with a 30 Herrett and now I've bought 3 barrels this week!</p><p></p><p>30 Herrett</p><p>17 HMR</p><p>7-30 Waters</p><p></p><p>I'm going nuts! I already have a 375 JDJ!</p><p></p><p>My concern is where will I find stuff. Barrels and frames will be floating around forever. Gunsmiths that work on them seem to be kind of limited. ….and then dies for all these crazy calibers!</p><p></p><p>To top it off, I read that the Specialty Pistol Forum is closing…..</p><p></p><p>I still remember ordering my first from JD Jones. It was a 375 JDJ. He was great to speak with on the phone. We talked about everything from gun to scope to scope mount to holster to shot distance on game. Between that and his book, I was in love. I still look at that book! I killed a couple deer with it out to 200 yards! My dad and I were just hunters. We didn't really comprehend how much recoil that was or how far we were shooting. We were amazed how it hit.</p><p></p><p>I got my first pistol buck with a Ruger SA 10.5" Super Blackhawk. I took that shot at 125 yards with total confidence because we shot it a lot at 100 yards. It was a perfect shot, but the deer went down like an archery shot which I wasn't used to then. I got close and finished the buck off. Still, I don't think I could make that shot today. I was about 17 at the time.</p><p></p><p>I forget all the gunwriters of the time, but I was a huge consumer of JD Jones and similar people influencing the gun world into long range handguning.</p><p></p><p>Thanks for reading!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="nksmfamjp, post: 2661084, member: 1951"] To me, theses are a great pistol that I haven’t paid enough attention to since the 90’s! Someone on here caught my eye with a 30 Herrett and now I’ve bought 3 barrels this week! 30 Herrett 17 HMR 7-30 Waters I’m going nuts! I already have a 375 JDJ! My concern is where will I find stuff. Barrels and frames will be floating around forever. Gunsmiths that work on them seem to be kind of limited. ….and then dies for all these crazy calibers! To top it off, I read that the Specialty Pistol Forum is closing….. I still remember ordering my first from JD Jones. It was a 375 JDJ. He was great to speak with on the phone. We talked about everything from gun to scope to scope mount to holster to shot distance on game. Between that and his book, I was in love. I still look at that book! I killed a couple deer with it out to 200 yards! My dad and I were just hunters. We didn’t really comprehend how much recoil that was or how far we were shooting. We were amazed how it hit. I got my first pistol buck with a Ruger SA 10.5” Super Blackhawk. I took that shot at 125 yards with total confidence because we shot it a lot at 100 yards. It was a perfect shot, but the deer went down like an archery shot which I wasn’t used to then. I got close and finished the buck off. Still, I don’t think I could make that shot today. I was about 17 at the time. I forget all the gunwriters of the time, but I was a huge consumer of JD Jones and similar people influencing the gun world into long range handguning. Thanks for reading! [/QUOTE]
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