Interesting Contender frame - questions

[cabezaverde]

I have an original Contender frame - it is not a Gen 2.

Unusual part is that it is stainless and smooth sided, no Puma stamp or anything. Do any of you know anything about these frames? I have not seen another like it.

[JimB..]

I understand that they were sold “in the white” for folks that wanted to have their own engraving or finishing work done to them. Are you sure it’s stainless?

[Kraschenbirn]

Like JimB, have never encountered a stainless 1st Gen frame but do own an SSK custom job with a matte Armalloy finish that could be mistaken for bead-blasted stainless.

Bill

[cabezaverde]

I understand that they were sold “in the white” for folks that wanted to have their own engraving or finishing work done to them. Are you sure it’s stainless?

Positive

[cabezaverde]

http://www.handgunhunt.com/tech/t1/index.html

Mine falls in the 1998 range.

[Nueces]

Cool chart, thanks. Makes mine a first quarter 1994, about when I bought it, with a stainless 300 Whisper barrel. It does have the Puma on both sides. I had never been a Contender man, but the combination of a stainless frame and factory availability of the 300 Whisper piped me aboard.

The stainless tell is the S serial number prefix, as indicated in the handgunhunt.com chart.

[JimB..]

Well it’s awfully cool, and probably released for the same reason I just wasn’t aware that they’d done it with stainless.