Since the subject is Contender accuracy, I won't really be hijacking the thread to relate a story from one of my shooting buddies. She bought a Contender with a 357 Magnum barrel to use for deer hunting here in Iowa. Unfortunately, she couldn't get it to group inside a dinner plate at 50 yards, and sent the barrel back to TC. They looked at it and returned it, saying that it met their accuracy standards. She shot it again, found the same results on target and brought it to me to see if rechambering it for Maximum would help the situation. Before cutting any metal, I took a very close look at it, and then did a chamber cast. The chamber was offset to the bore by about 5 or 6 degrees, with the throat shorter on one side than the other. She sent it back to TC and called the repair dept. head and reamed him a new one on the phone. He got the barrel, looked at it and agreed that it was not right, and sent back a new one. She shot this one, and same situation on target, but not quite as bad. I looked it over, and the chamber was off by less, but it was still off. Back to TC this one went, and man, she was p.o.'d! Yes, she got a new barrel , this time from the custom shop and took it to me before wasting any ammo on it...it was off, too. At this point she was ready to throw the whole thing in the lake, but I talked her into letting me reline her barrel with a piece of Douglas 14" twist barrel I had that was long enough for the job. Long story shortened, the new barrel liner, loctited into place, regularly puts five shots into an inch at 50 yards with her handloads.