T/C 15/16" barrel on a 1" stock?

[dogfood]

Hi all,
I was stoked when I found what was billed as a .50 smoothbore T/C Renegade, so I jumped on it.
Wasn't until a little while later that I noticed that the barrel was a 15/16" and the stock, being a Renegade was made for 1" barrels. It fit nice and snug enough for me to not notice anything being off when I put the barrel in.
I didn't shoot it in that configuration, though.
Fortunately, I had an extra Hawken stock and just swapped it over, but it got me to thinking about what could have been had I not noticed it fairly early.
Anyone got any thoughts/real world experience?
Cheers,
dgfd

 

[Griz44Mag]

I did see one mounted in a Renegade stock at the range. The fellow had laid a layer of bike tire tubing in the channel and trimmed to fit after the barrel was mounted.
Seemed to work OK for him and was pretty accurate too.

 

[ohio ramrod]

I "shimmed" a 7/8 barrel 45 caliber to fit my boys rifle that came with a 15/16 50 caliber barrel. It has worked well for over twenty years.

 

[Stubert]

I put a 15/16 barrel in an Investarms stock. I used a couple layers of black electrical tape to take up the space. been that way for years now.

 

[OldMaineWoodsman]

Back when I was the YoungMaineWoodsman I put a 15/16 Green Mountain Round Ball Barrel on my Thompson Center Renegade. The Barrel Wedge Key stayed tight and I never had any problems.

 

[dogfood]

Thanks for all the info, gentlemen! You brightened my day.
I had figured that I should to try to sell off the Renegade stock. But seeing as how I have a .45 Hawken, a .50 Pennsylvania hunter, and this .50 Hawken smooth rifle, I'll keep it in reserve, so should any of those stocks fail, the Renegade can be pressed into service (or just play around with configurations for the heck of it).

Cheers,
dgfd

 

[Bad Karma]

Thanks for all the info, gentlemen! You brightened my day.
I had figured that I should to try to sell off the Renegade stock. But seeing as how I have a .45 Hawken, a .50 Pennsylvania hunter, and this .50 Hawken smooth rifle, I'll keep it in reserve, so should any of those stocks fail, the Renegade can be pressed into service (or just play around with configurations for the heck of it).

Cheers,
dgfd

I’ve got a 15/16” Hoyt rifled barrel on a Renegade stock. I used a Hawken tang and glass bedded everything. It’s a .40 caliber bullet shooter and one of my favorite rifles.

 

[dogfood]

I’ve got a 15/16” Hoyt rifled barrel on a Renegade stock. I used a Hawken tang and glass bedded everything. It’s a .40 caliber bullet shooter and one of my favorite rifles.

Maybe now's the time I look up on how glass bed a stock.
Thanks for the tip, pal!

 

[Bad Karma]

Maybe now's the time I look up on how glass bed a stock.
Thanks for the tip, pal!

If I can do it, anyone can do it... well, maybe not anyone... for a long time there was a renegade posted on gunbroker. It had a Green Mountain .50 caliber Long Range Hunter glass bedded into a beautiful custom stock. It was gorgeous but according to the seller, the barrel was no longer removable by ordinary means, if at all.

Brownells Acra-glas and Acra-gel kits include excellent directions. If you take your time, and if you read everything before doing anything, (anyone remember that from the ASVAB?) you’ll be fine.

 

[dogfood]

If you take your time, and if you read everything before doing anything, (anyone remember that from the ASVAB?) you’ll be fine.

Sage advice. I remember the ASVAB fondly. The DLAB, however, not so much *grumble grumble*...

 

[Bad Karma]

Sage advice. I remember the ASVAB fondly. The DLAB, however, not so much *grumble grumble*...

Hah! Did you go to DLI?

 

[nkbj]

If you were into long range precision shooting why wouldn't you epoxy the barrel into the stock?
Tradition?

 

[Bad Karma]

If you were into long range precision shooting why wouldn't you epoxy the barrel into the stock?
Tradition?

If it happened to me I wouldn’t sweat it unduly, but I take the barrel out of the stock for cleaning. Stick the end into a bucket of warm water and plunge and scrub, plunge and scrub... it makes short work of cleaning, drying and oiling the barrel. That’s a plus in my opinion, there’s no downside to a removable barrel in a glass bedded stock.