Look What I Found At The PO

[tred1956]

Went to the PO and lo and behold. A grin came across my face. Couldn't wait to get home and put it together. The gun is a Factory Unaltered AA easy open frame with a factory unaltered AA 357 Max 10 " barrel. It wears a Wanre 4 hole, weaver style base, with Burris Signature rings and a Brand New Bushnell Elite 2-6X 32mm matte black Handgun Scope. The furniture is from High Plains and features a Pegasus Grip (been wanting to try one of these for years) and 2" wide flat bottom target forearm in Saphire Laminate. I think the purple pops with the AA frame. Have 200 rounds of Remington 357 Max brass and will start load development shortly. Have some AA1680 I am going to play with.
Thanks for reading and feel free to offer any "Pert Load" you might have. I have some 125,140,158, and 180 grain JHP to experiment with.
Thanks for reading and any and all input is welcome
Doug

 

[Jefferson]

very very,nice

far better than you deserve.

 

[Cryhavoc]

wow!...that sure is one nice looking TC pistola!....thanks for sharing!

 

[Whit holman]

Be sure and where good ear protection
For that one recoil is not that bad

 

[JayHHI6818]

Very nice Contender!

 

[Dusty Stevens]

Ive never even heard of an AA- who makes that?

 

[tred1956]

AA Stands for Armour Alloy. Thompson Center offered frames & barrels with this finish for a few years. I have found it to be a very durable finish over the years. Their fatal marketing strategy was not to adjust the size of the frame & barrel pivot hole so it would interchange with all the other Contenders. Due to the thickness of the finish you had to have a smaller pivot pin. A lot of people ream AA frames and barrels so they easily interchange. The one pictured above has never been reamed so will not interchange (Only works with AA ) Hope this answers your question
Thanks
Doug

 

[sdean]

I want one now.

 

[Riesel]

Is it Christmas already?? Almost too dern purty to shoot.

 

[Bojo]

I thought AA was for people with "problems" ?

 

[tred1956]

Believe me My Brother I have a Problem LOL

 

[Bojo]

I looked at a used one in standard blue before that was in 17rem or something like that .
Gun had an oval shaped stock on it. Felt pretty awsome in the hand and you could even tuck to your shoulder.