TC Renegade Updates & Upgrades

[FrontierGander]

Started this maybe a month ago. First started off with a .50cal barrel which shoots really darn good but I already have a closet of .50cals and a couple weeks later I got a chance to buy a .54cal Renegade which I then sold the stock for $100 PLUS a custom barrel breached for a TC Renegade!

This barrel was 28" long and a .54cal. I am currently working on the custom barrel, getting the sights installed, coning the crown, have to drill one screw hole for the ram rod under rib. I have the rear sight gorilla glued on for now until I figure out what sight set up I want to go with. I am thinking fiber optics but just am not sure YET. Take care of the bigger stuff first before making up my mind.

Here it is with the factory 54 barrel installed,

Once I finish up some stuff on the custom 54 barrel I will post some pictures of that. Its actually lighter weight that the factory 54 TC barrel. Longer barrel and weight reduction really helped turn it into a point and shoot rifle. Balances out very well now.

 

[TennesseeJed]

I saw your post on ALR about the new barrel.

I have a .54 Renegade and have been wanting a .50 caliber barrel for it. That way I can sell off my New Englander and maybe my .50 Hawken as well, I prefer the 1" barrels on the Renegade model.

 

[TennesseeJed]

I finally got to shoot the .50 barrel a few times today. It was far from an ideal day to shoot with the wind gusting like it was.

I knew that I should have started off at 30 yards for a couple of shots until I got on paper with it, but shot it at 60 yards twice and was completely off the paper. I moved down to 30 and it was shooting way high, after a couple of shots at 40 and 50 and a sight adjustment, got it shooting quite well at 60 yards.

I was using 60 grains of 3F Goex, pillow ticking patching cut at the muzzle, and .495 balls. I needed .490s but didn't have any on hand, the .495s were way hard to load, I found a couple of cut patches, but accuracy was fine despite that. I have some .470 balls and will try them with thick patching in a couple of days.

Overall, I'm impressed with it so far and consider it money well spent.

 

[FrontierGander]

Wow I bet that was a tight load! Those cut patches could have been from having the pound the ball into the bore. My 54 was a hard loading SOB and was cutting patches due to that.

 

[TennesseeJed]

The balls I was using were cast by a guy that shows up at muzzleloader events and were a little rough. I tumbled several and got in a few shots with them this evening. I found 3 patches and none of them were cut. Ran out of daylight.

 

[TennesseeJed]

Shot my Renegade again today with the original .54 barrel and the .50 I got from you. For most of the past 5 or 6 years, I've mostly shot it with a GM .40 barrel that's 38" long and about 11 pounds. I forgot how much fun it is to shoot stuff with the .54. I mount my targets onto an end piece from a crosstie, the .40 never budges it, the .54 was knocking it flat pretty much every shot, it beat on my shoulder pretty good as well.

The .50 barrel shot good with the .470 balls and denim patching. It's defective though...it didn't go off when I forgot to put powder in it...

 

[FrontierGander]

LOL i hear ya, I did that the other day and could have kicked myself.

 

[Boone 58]

 

[TennesseeJed]

Today at the Sparta gun show I bought a really nice and hardly used old style T/C Renegade for $80. Whoever had it had 6 holes drilled in the barrel for scope mounts...

The stock, lock, trigger, and sights are going with the barrel I bought from you. The stock is almost flawless, and the lock is as new as it could be.

I think I'll have the undrilled half of the barrel cut off and rebreeched to make a long barreled pistol out of.

 

[Brisco Darlin]

that sounds cool.