This Poor Renegade had to come home with me

[Frontstuffer070]

I had just found out about a new Pawn Shop in my hometown so I had to stop by. I walked in the door and low and behold there was a Renegade sitting on the rack. The poor thing is in a sad state of affairs. It is a kit gun that looks like someone literally screwed it together and put some finish on it. Too much wood EVERYWHERE, front sight on backwards, and no sanding or shaping whatsoever. LOL SMH! Even a NEWB to kit building like me knows this IS NOT what you're supposed to do. The bore looks great and the lock works like it should. So we agreed on a price and I walked out with it. I have it torn completely down now. The nipple is stuck and of course I don't have a nipple wrench to fit this nipple. I have it soaking in some Kroiil now. I hope I can budge the thing at some point. So basically I bought an assembled kit. Would one of you fine folks, post some detailed pics of your Renegade so I can get an idea of what the stock should look like?

 

[Gtrubicon]

Man that’s perfect! A good place to start since nobody boogered it up. I would love to have a 56 renegade someday. It appears that there is some really nice wood hiding under that finish. Keep us up to date on what your progress is with this rifle please.

 

[azmntman]

What caliber?

 

[OldMaineWoodsman]

The stocks on those were Walnut so any oil type finish will bring it back to life.

 

[Hermit Tim]

Looks like a great project. Ya gotta love that front sight.

 

[TDM]

You got a nice blank slate to start with. It will be a fun project.

 

[waarp8nt]

My wife calls those rescues, I've brought a few home over the years!

 

[Frontstuffer070]

SUCCESS!! I got the nipple out! WHEW! That bolster is interesting the way it almost wraps around the dang nipple. I mean what were the engineers at T/C doing, passing the bong around, (insert talking while holding breath) " HEY MAAAN, you know we should make that bolster kinda like a pocket maaaan, so only our special T/C licensed nipple wrench can get in there maaaan"

Man that’s perfect! A good place to start since nobody boogered it up. I would love to have a 56 renegade someday. It appears that there is some really nice wood hiding under that finish. Keep us up to date on what your progress is with this rifle please.

Of course, I would appreciated ya'lll being here for the whole ride.

What caliber?

54

 

[TSnave]

That's gonna be a sweet rifle when you get it done. Watching for sure.

 

[Johnny Too-Tall]

Here’s a Renegade I rescued from yard sale.

 

[Frontstuffer070]

Beautiful, Thank you for posting those pics. Looks like I have A LOT of wood to remove.

 

[Jaeger]

Here’s a Renegade I rescued from yard sale.

That paint job......lol

 

[Frontstuffer070]

Here’s a Renegade I rescued from yard sale.

What did you finish that stock with?

 

[Johnny Too-Tall]

What did you finish that stock with?

Its a stain and sealer in one color is antique walnut. I don't want to lie about the maker I can look when I get home tonight.

 

[Frontstuffer070]

Thanks Johnny!! It looks much better now! But I digress, the camo paint job wasn't bad, just in the wrong place.

 

[Johnny Too-Tall]

Thanks Johnny!! It looks much better now! But I digress, the camo paint job wasn't bad, just in the wrong place.

I gave $125 for it, also came with a horn and bag stuffed with goodies to include a touch over 700 CCI Number 11's I bought it just for the caps. Fixed the rifle up and gave it away to a fellow veteran.

 

[Eric Krewson]

A good project gun, the stock needs a lot of sanding, followed by a sanding sealer to fil the pores.

After you sand to 400 grit, apply the sealer. let it dry and sand it back to bare wood, do this over and over until you can't see any open pores in the wood. I like Tru-oil for a finish, apply it heavily with a 1" square of a scotch bright pad, scrub it in, quickly wipe off the excess tru oil with a rag and let it dry, I put on 5 coats this way and have a nice satin finish.

The walnut sealer I use;

The result after all the sealer and finish is applied;

Now for shaping; The lock panel was never shaped correctly, when it is cut off square at the front of the lock it should follow the curve of the lock to the top of the stock. The molding is a bit too wide as well.

To look the best, it should look like this, this is a Hawken but the Renegade should be shaped the same.

The only other thing I see is a slab-sided forearm, way too flat on the sides. If you haven't built a gun correcting this may be a mystery to you. In the picture above you can see where I rounded the wood on the belly almost to the mid-point of the forearm, at the mid point I slightly rounded the wood in a transition to the barrel to leave only 1/16" of wood alongside the barrel. This gets rid it the slab sides of a kit gun.

Here is the Renegade I put together with random parts and a new L&R lock. I did all of the above-mentioned things to the stock for the finished gun.

 

[Eric Krewson]

I use this contour gage to check the consistency side to side on the forearm wood removal. These are cheap and sold at Lowes.

 

[Eric Krewson]

As for the rust on the barrel, I would give it a soak in evaporust, this will remove the rust but also the bluing and you would need to sand the barrel smooth with 220 grit sandpaper wrapped around a block of wood and re-blue with cold blue. If you don't want to go that far you can put some oil on some 000 steel wool and give the barrel a scrub to get rid of the rust freckles.

My Renegade barrel was in the white, bluing it was no problem, I went over it with several coats of cold blue after I sanded it.

 

[Rebel bull]

bought this gun to compete in the territorial matches and found out that it needed to be a flint, single trigger, no rear sight so i made a second one. I have multiple TC's and all wear this factory fancy wood