Is this a Renegade?

[longcruise]

Is this a problem we can help you out with? Surely in the next 7 to 10 pages we can come up with something close to the right solution. Or at least we can disappear down some intriguing rabbit holes.

Nope, problem is solved. He is away at college orientation and left this rifle at home with a problem. He has had it for about four years now but never shot it. He and his dad went out to shoot it the other day and he accidently dry balled it. They could not get it out by putting powder under the nipple so they pulled with a screw puller. Then they found several old patches left in the breech and considerable corrosion in the barrel.

He wanted to know what he could do about it but while I knew it was a TC 54 and almost certainly a renegade I wanted to be sure. Given that it is, it is a candidate for a rebore to a 58 by Hoyt since it is a 1" ATF.

He could purchase another barrel of course but the rebore would be more economical and would be a superior barrel as well. In fact, I have a renegade 50 cal barrel that I'll give him or swap him if he doesn't want to go to the 58. I'd have Hoyt bore it to a smoothy for my own use.

 

[ETipp]

I agree with @mushka , if you can buy it AND it is in good condition with at least a 'good' bore AND the price is fair, BUY IT! Renegade's and New Englander's are excellent. Better in my opinion than the Hawken models.

I used to own a .54 and a .50 Renegades years ago. Wish the heck I hadn't sold either one.

 

[NorthFork]

Nope, problem is solved. He is away at college orientation and left this rifle at home with a problem. He has had it for about four years now but never shot it. He and his dad went out to shoot it the other day and he accidently dry balled it. They could not get it out by putting powder under the nipple so they pulled with a screw puller. Then they found several old patches left in the breech and considerable corrosion in the barrel.

He wanted to know what he could do about it but while I knew it was a TC 54 and almost certainly a renegade I wanted to be sure. Given that it is, it is a candidate for a rebore to a 58 by Hoyt since it is a 1" ATF.

He could purchase another barrel of course but the rebore would be more economical and would be a superior barrel as well. In fact, I have a renegade 50 cal barrel that I'll give him or swap him if he doesn't want to go to the 58. I'd have Hoyt bore it to a smoothy for my own use.

Then rebore it. Easy discission.

 

[Grenadier1758]

Nope, problem is solved. He is away at college orientation and left this rifle at home with a problem. He has had it for about four years now but never shot it. He and his dad went out to shoot it the other day and he accidently dry balled it. They could not get it out by putting powder under the nipple so they pulled with a screw puller. Then they found several old patches left in the breech and considerable corrosion in the barrel.

He wanted to know what he could do about it but while I knew it was a TC 54 and almost certainly a renegade I wanted to be sure. Given that it is, it is a candidate for a rebore to a 58 by Hoyt since it is a 1" ATF.

He could purchase another barrel of course but the rebore would be more economical and would be a superior barrel as well. In fact, I have a renegade 50 cal barrel that I'll give him or swap him if he doesn't want to go to the 58. I'd have Hoyt bore it to a smoothy for my own use.

It wouldn't take much effort run some Scotch-Brite or JB Bore paste down the barrel. It may clean up well enough for acceptable accuracy. Nothing wrong about your plan to have the barrel rebored.

 

[ETipp]

Then rebore it. Easy discission.

Indeed. I'm kicking the idea of having my .50 New Englander re-bored to a fast twist .54 if at all possible.

 

[longcruise]

Indeed. I'm kicking the idea of having my .50 New Englander re-bored to a fast twist .54 if at all possible.

Should be doable if it's at least 15/16".

 

[chorizo]

Rebore to 58 cal or reline and bored to 54 cal...I was only charged $50 more for a reline of a trashed 54 cal renegade barrel to 54 cal fast twist 1:38

 

[Rawhide67]

May shoot just fine if the corrosion is at the breach end . Probably a pain in the a** to clean though.

 

[The Appalachian]

I do the same, but in my case I'm trudging through snow here in the snow belt off Lake Erie!

Phew, I know a little about that. Drove 86 between Erie and Frewsburg every day one winter, second shift. Can't say I liked that at all. That stretch through Sherman was a veritable schooling in winter driving.

 

[SDSmlf]

Phew, I know a little about that. Drove 86 between Erie and Frewsburg every day one winter, second shift. Can't say I liked that at all. That stretch through Sherman was a veritable schooling in winter driving.

Hunted in and around the Randolph and Steamburg areas, a few miles east of Frewsburg, for years in my misguided youth. Lake effect snow can be ‘spectacular’.