SSK-50 Receiver, Flat Side - A modernized Thompson Center Contender® Frame - DEALERS ONLY - MUST PURCHASE 5 RECEIVERS
The original Thompson Center Contender® is light, thin, and the most versatile firearm ever made. Warren Center designed a masterpiece and Ken Thompson provided the manufacturing expertise to bring that masterpiece to market.
Over fifty years and 580,000 guns later, we have updated this work with modern manufacturing materials and processes making the gun stronger and more precise than the original. The SSK-50 is a continuation of the original design with complete cross compatibility with the Contender® in barrels and components.
This receiver is compatible with Thompson Center/SSK G1/G2 Contender® barrels post TC Generation 1. The SSK-50 receiver is not compatible with TC Generation 1 barrels. Due to other barrel manufacture’s variation from TC dimensional specifications, we can not assure fitment to these manufacture’s barrels.
| Additional Notes | The SSK-50 Operations and Safety Manual is located under Product Attachments. The SSK-50 is produced to the nominal geometry specifications of the last iteration of the Thompson Center Contender with extreme precision and low variation. A new benchmark for frame consistency has been established. 56 years of Contender barrel production from at least 8 manufacturers has led to an evolution in barrel geometry and variation that cannot be compensated for in a fixed design. Although customers report very high percentages of frame/barrel fit success with the SSK-50, there may be some barrels that are so far out of T/C's specifications that they may not function with the SSK-50. |
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Gun Platform
The general classification of the Frame type or Receiver that is used to build the firearm. For example, is the frame designed as a single shot handgun or rifle using an SSK-50/Contender frame which will only allow for one shot at a time. In contrast, an AR15 upper (frame) would be considered a semi-automatic.
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Single Shot |
| Gun Type
This designation is controlled by the length of the barrel. For example, a 10 inch barrel would be considered a handgun since it would attach to a handgun stock; whereas a 24 inch barrel would be attached to a rifle stock and designed accordingly. NOTE: The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) defines a short-barreled rifle as “a rifle having one or more barrels less than sixteen inches in length and any weapon made from a rifle (whether by alteration, modification, or otherwise) if such weapon, as modified, has an overall length of less than twenty-six inches.”
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Carbine, Handgun, Muzzleloader, Rifle, Shotgun |
| Gun Model
A Manufacturers Designation for Firearm. Some ‘models’ are assigned a number, or a name, others are the year they were made available for sale or adopted by a government for military service, even if they didn’t actually get fielded for a year or two after that.
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Contender, SSK50 |
| Material | Stainless Steel |