Quote........."When I got home I tried swapping barrels with my 223 contender. When I put the 30 30 barrel on the 223 frame it would not lock up. It just falls open if you just move the gun hand."

This told me locking bolts. It should not just fall open!

The fact you are using factory ammo kinnda hints it is not a headspace adjustment UNLESS the rim counter bore is way to shallow.....or deep in other instances. I guess it could happen but doubtful here imo.

Ive been around the horn on headspace adjustments. I finally got it down....and into my hard head as well. 😉

Be patient. You will work it out. It would be tempting to send that frame/barrel to someone for fitting if you cant figure it out.

Friday I sent my 30 30 contender back to TC to be repaired. I called them and they sent a prepaid address lable for Fed EX to send it back with. They told me it would take 6-8 weeks to complete any work that had to be done.

I got my 30 30 contender pistol back from TC last week. The list of repairs only listed a new hammer spring. I had put a new hammer spring in before sending it off. When I sent it to them I sent a note explaining about getting light strikes on one out of 10 or 13 shots. I mounted my scope back on and went to the range. I fired 20 Remington 150 gr coRe lock rounds without a misfire and they were grouping very well at 50 yards but when I switched to Winchester power points I started getting misfires again and it got worse when I went to the Winchester 250 gr hollow points. Why would Remington fire and Winchesters start misfiring again.

Might be the type/brand of primers playing a role. Some use softer metal that takes less energy to deform and ignight. From my 223 reloading experience, cci primers "always" cratered while Remington didn't with the exact same load. Could also be brass differences from different manufacturers. Frustrating that it happens with factory loads.

Yes it is. I told TC that I had replaced the hammer spring and that made no difference and they sent it back and only did what I had already done.

This gun groups really well when it fires.

I know that's got to be frustrating.

Well I finally gave up on me being able to stop the misfires on this gun. I had tried everything people had told me to try and even sent it back to TC which was a waste of time. All they did was to put a new hammer spring on it after I told them that I had already done that. I called Mike Bellm and am sending it to him next

Well good. I really think that will most likely help you find out n get it fixed and going this time. I sure hope so. Please report bellms findings.

I congratulate you on your not give up attitude. Impressive....as a lot would give up.

Hope you can get that barrel behaving properly, REDHAWK. What a frustrating ordeal.

If anyone can fix the issue, Mike Bellm will.

I sent my 30 30 contender to Mike Bellm today. It will be a few weeks before I get it back. I will be shooting my 223 and muzzle loading pistol till it gets back.

I got a notice yesterday that Mike will be shipping my 30 30 contender back today. I can not wait to get it back and check it out on the range. Christmas in April!

Any mention of work done?

Not yet.

Nice to hear!!

Can't wait for you to get it back. Hopefully it won't give you any more headaches.

Looking forward to hearing what had to be done to resolve the problem :-)

I got my 30 30 contender back yesterday. Mike did a trigger job, cleaned the frame, replaced all the springs, checked the head space, replaced the hinge pin and replaced the firing pin which was bent. He did a great job on it.

I took it to the range this afternoon. It shot great using three different factory loads. I pulled the trigger 28 times and for the first time it went bang 28 times. Thanks Mike Bellm.

WOOOHOOO!!!! LET THE FUN BEGIN!!!!

Great to hear!

Great!

So....the bent firing pin being the main culprit ya reckon?

Glad it is back in fine condition 👍

I guess so but not sure.

I took my 30 30 back to the range during my lunch Monday and fired 12 more shoots of three different factory loads and it fired each and every time. I have now tried six different factory loads and shot the gun forty times and it went bang each and every time. I am a happy camper.

That's great to hear after all the trouble you had with it.

Glad it's going bang as expected. Good job sticking it through to a solution.

Happy for you ... glad to know it goes bang now.

Now it's a gun. Not a bullet holder.

This is a four shot group at 50 yards using Winchester 150 gr hp load. After my first shot I settled down and fired three shots that are less than 1/4 inches center to center.

I am loving this gun more every day. Thanks Mr Bellm.

This how my 30 30 looks since I took the wooden grips off and added these. If fits my hand much better and I shoot it better now.

That's some good shootin', Michael. Looks like you are ready to rock.

Looking good! That should do the job quite nicely.

Good to hear its functioning properly now. Not a bad group!