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    The Thompson/Center Contender is a break-action single-shot pistol or rifle that was introduced in 1967 by Thompson/Center Arms. It can be chambered in...
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  • Thompson Tool began marketing Center's Contender pistol, the company name was changed to Thompson/Center Arms Company. Then, in 1970, Thompson/Center...
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  • series Thompson (band), a Croatian rock band Thompson Media Group Thompson (TV series), 1988 British variety television series Thompson/Center Contender, a...
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  • Minahan Thompson/Center Contender, single shot, break-action firearm made as a pistol or rifle, manufactured by Thompson Center Arms The Contender (TV series)...
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  • revolvers in this cartridge. Single shot pistols and rifles (i.e. Thompson/Center Contender) are still available in this caliber, and remain popular among...
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    Wildey and LAR Grizzly pistols. The cartridge was chambered in the Thompson-Center Contender single shot pistols. The cartridge was also chambered for the...
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  • Thompson Center Arms Contender single shot pistol, and are widely used in handgun metallic silhouette competition and handgun hunting. The Contender pistol...
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    used for metallic silhouette shooting are the Remington XP-100, Thompson/Center Contender, Savage Striker and Tanfoglio Thor. Metallic silhouette handguns...
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    1986. Other handguns chambered for this cartridge include the Thompson-Center Contender. Plainfield Machine produced M1 carbines from 1960 to 1977, when...
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    ideal for interchangeable barrel firearms, such as the popular Thompson/Center Arms Contender and Encore pistols. The simplicity of the break-open design...
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  • several barrels were made for the single shot Thompson/Center Contender Pistol. Rounds made for the Contender could utilize longer bullets seated further...
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    wadcutters must be taper crimped. Used in single-shot firearms (e.g., Thompson Center Contender or Encore), no crimping is absolutely required, but higher velocities...
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    Model" to differentiate it from the small frame "New Vaquero.") Thompson Center Contender "Magnum" .45 Colt loadings can also be safely fired from any gun...
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  • Firearms M1 carbine variant Ruger Hawkeye single-shot pistol Thompson Center Contender single-shot pistol barrel chambering The 256 Winchester Magnum...
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    a popular cartridge for single-shot hunting pistols like the Thompson/Center Contender and the Remington XP-100. For hunters looking for a medium-power...
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    p.148, ".22 Remington Jet", & p.131, ".224 Harvey Kay-Chuk". Thompson/Center Contender Barnes, Frank C., ed. by John T. Amber. ".22 Remington Jet", in...
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    such as the Savage Striker as well as the versatile Thompson Center Arms break-action Contender. XP-100 (1963–1985) XP-100 Varmint Special (1986–1992)...
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    cartridge Thompson/Center Contender – The Thompson/Center Contender is a break-action single-shot pistol or rifle that was introduced in 1967 by Thompson/Center...
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    and Firearm Identification. CRC Press. p. 274. ISBN 978-1-4665-0206-2. Thompson, Leroy (2022). Soviet Pistols: Tokarev, Makarov, Stechkin and others. Oxford:...
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    single-shot rifles, single-shot pistols (such as the break-action Thompson/Center Contender), and on some break-action single- and double-barrel shotguns...
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  • The bolt-action Remington XP-100 pistol and the break-action Thompson/Center Contender handgun were chambered for the cartridge. It provided a flat-shooting...
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  • multiple times over the course of production. Remington XP-100 Thompson/Center Contender Gun Trader's Guide, Thirty-Fourth Edition: A Comprehensive, Fully...
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  • revolvers like the Phelps Heritage revolver, Century Arms revolver, Thompson/Centre Contender break-open pistol, Magnum Research BFR, and the Pfeifer Zeliska...
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  • pistol, known as the "Door Knocker" (highly reminiscent of a Thompson/Center Contender pistol), and is later shown to use another weapon, which is a...
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    safely used with a given load, such as "Only for use in Ruger and Thompson/Center Contenders", "Use only in modern Marlin and Winchester lever-action rifles"...
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  • Kiritsugu employs different types of guns. His most known is a Thompson/Center Contender which served as one of the main ideas that led to the creation...
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  • SW1911 (US - Semi-Automatic Pistol - .38 Super Automatic, .45 ACP) Thompson-Center Contender (United States - Single-Shot Break Action Pistol - Various) Revolvers...
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  • Caine to fight in his place in a duel using enhanced 20th-century Thompson/Center Contenders in the sunrise scene at Sacré-Cœur. The Bowery King when he arrives...
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  • United States v. Thompson-Center Arms Company, 504 U.S. 505 (1992), was a case decided by the Supreme Court of the United States. The legal dispute in...
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  • eventually kills Wolmarf with his Door Knocker, which resembles a Thompson/Center Contender pistol. The next morning, Alice and Randel are relieved when the...
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