FOR SALE TC Renegade 54 cal 1-48 twist

[eekjellander]

I have taken out (steamed ) the wood walking dings /sanded down to 600 grit and 8-10 coats of rubbed in tung oil and Permalyn sealer /freshened the bluing on barrel/butt plate . As usual TC covers up some decent walnut for the sake of labor ,tung oil isn"t cheap but labor eats the profit ,turned out nice and 15 Nasa modified Lyman Plains included along with the Globe sight . I will send the original along (I can:t stand them ) as I am not keeping the gun /Excellent bore got the Lee Shavers treatment 1st thing . $400.00 + $50.00 shipping Priority /insured TYD 1st take it/ PM

 

[Matthew323]

Smokin' hot deal from a man that knows how to set up a hunting rifle. Wish I could afford it. Good luck with your sale.

 

[edmehlig]

Smokin' hot deal from a man that knows how to set up a hunting rifle. Wish I could afford it. Good luck with your sale.

That makes two of us! Now if it had a GM LRH bbl on it, I might have sold my TC Contender 22LR Match pistol with scope for it. Talk about a safe Queen! I think it has less than 100 rounds through it and I bet it's closer to 50 rounds. But man is it accurate! Someday I got to take it out squirrel hunting.

 

[rusticbob]

Sorry to sound dumb, but what is the “Lee Shaver” treatment?

 

[eekjellander]

Sorry to sound dumb, but what is the “Lee Shaver” treatment?

I dont have time to recite it now but look up Idaho lewis and all his posts on just that procedure it is mentioned quite a few times . It involves 4 oooo steel wool over an oiled patch ,burnishes not remove steel just polish's .Lee Shaver is a world class muzzle loader champion who is also a world class gunsmith . He spells out for us folks what he does to win those titles doing this procedure to new or used barrels and tells us for free what he charges outrageous money to his clients . Like I said well worth reading /Ed

 

[Russ4iam]

I keep it handy...
Lee Shaver’s Break-in Procedure

Having used the jacketed bullet/clean-between-shot process in the past and
specifically Badger’s procedure when breaking-in one of my Browning BPCRs, I
was not looking forward to repeating the very lengthy process with my other
Browning’s. Fortunately Lee Shaver came to the rescue with his much simpler and
less time consuming process. With permission from Lee I’ve included the details
of his procedure. It’s from a larger article Lee published in the May 2013 edition
of The Single Shot Exchange Magazine.

Excerpt from “Breaking In a Barrel” by Lee Shaver:
Several years ago, I developed a process for breaking-in barrels for lead bullet use
that eliminated the afternoon of shooting and cleaning with jacketed bullet. It
began because I would occasionally have to get bad leading out of a barrel for a
customer, and when you charge what a gunsmith must charge to stay in business
you don’t want to spend an afternoon scrubbing the lead out of a customer’s gun.
And I’m sure the customer would rather not pay for said services.

What I learned was that when scrubbing lead out of a barrel, I could run a tight oily
patch through a few times and then take the patch off the jag. I would then unroll a
little 0000 steel wool and cut a piece the size of the patch. Place that over the
patch and then run it all through together. (The proper fit is when you have to
bump the rod a few times with the palm of your hand to get it started in the bore.)
When you shove that steel wool over a patch through the bore of a badly leaded
barrel, it may sound like paper tearing as the lead is ripped out of the barrel in a
pass or two. I can clean the lead out of the worst barrel in about ten or fifteen
minutes that way, and an average leaded barrel will be clean in a few strokes.

After using this technique for a while, I began to notice that the rifles that I was de-
leading that way seemed to lead less afterwards, which got me to thinking. We use
fine steel wool on the outside of old guns all the time to do some cleaning or spot
rust removal, and it does not damage the surface of the steel. It just scrubs it.
Which lead me to consider the fact that we are trying to break in a barrel by
smoothing the surface without cutting, and it seems to me that process would go
much quicker if we used something on the inside of the bore that was closer to the
hardness of the barrel instead of lead or copper. So I started trying the steel wool
and oiled patch technique on new barrels before shooting them. I use it about as
tight as I can get in the bore and wear out a steel wool pad or two in about 15
minutes, then I go and shoot the rifle.

How well does it work you might ask? On a few occasions, I have built a new rifle
and taken it to a match without ever having fired the rifle. All have performed
flawlessly in their first match and several times I won the match or set a record
with them. On one occasion, I set a new 300 yard range record with the first 13
shots out of a barrel. This method has become a service we offer to our customers
here in the shop and I have shared the technique many times with others.

So the next time you get ready to shoot that new rifle, just remember it is important
to break in a barrel properly, but if the operation you are doing to the barrel cuts –
it is not breaking it in. It may be making the barrel smoother, but to break the
barrel in you need to polish the bore by burnishing not cutting either by shooting it
or scrubbing it.
Lee Shaver

 

[Matthew323]

There are good/great/world class shooter's that SWEAR that you should NEVER touch the inside of a new barrel with anything but a bullet, or a patched ball. UNLESS, it's the traditional cast lead slug used with lapping compound to properly lap a barrel the old fashioned way.

Then, there are good/great/world class shooter's like Lee Shavers, and Idaholewis who SWEAR by the Lee Shavers method of breaking in a barrel, brand new, or used.

The argument against the Lee Shavers method of breaking in a barrel is that one is actually, in a microscopically measurably way, rounding off the very sharp edges of the lands that are left from the process of rifling the barrel. The naysayers claim that this DESTROYS forever any new barrel's potential for ultimate accuracy.

 

[eekjellander]

There are good/great/world class shooter's that SWEAR that you should NEVER touch the inside of a new barrel with anything but a bullet, or a patched ball. UNLESS, it's the traditional cast lead slug used with lapping compound to properly lap a barrel the old fashioned way.

Then, there are good/great/world class shooter's like Lee Shavers, and Idaholewis who SWEAR by the Lee Shavers method of breaking in a barrel, brand new, or used.

The argument against the Lee Shavers method of breaking in a barrel is that one is actually, in a microscopically measurably way, rounding off the very sharp edges of the lands that are left from the process of rifling the barrel. The naysayers claim that this DESTROYS forever any new barrel's potential for ultimate accuracy.

Naysayers matter squat ,what Lee OR Idaho lewis says take it to the bank ! Put their (RECORDS UP) against any anonymous claims , I go with the gold standard everytime !/Ed

 

[eekjellander]

I have taken out (steamed ) the wood walking dings /sanded down to 600 grit and 8-10 coats of rubbed in tung oil and Permalyn sealer /freshened the bluing on barrel/butt plate . As usual TC covers up some decent walnut for the sake of labor ,tung oil isn"t cheap but labor eats the profit ,turned out nice and 15 Nasa modified Lyman Plains included along with the Globe sight . I will send the original along (I can:t stand them ) as I am not keeping the gun /Excellent bore got the Lee Shavers treatment 1st thing . $400.00 + $50.00 shipping Priority /insured TYD 1st take it/ PM View attachment 15791View attachment 15792View attachment 15793View attachment 15794View attachment 15795View attachment 15796View attachment 15797View attachment 15798View attachment 15799

Up for the weekend /no interest /offers it"s gone

 

[eekjellander]

Up for the weekend /no interest /offers it"s gone

Weekends gone so is this better than new TC Renegade 54 ,I guess there's plenty still being made ! Mods please close /Thanks Ed

 

[snapbang]

Ed, you in a hurry to sell this gun??? Give the guys a chance to think about it and maybe see if they can get the funds together. Some folks only visit the forum periodically and may not know one is for sale yet. Let it ride a few weeks and see what happens.

 

[eekjellander]

Ed, you in a hurry to sell this gun??? Give the guys a chance to think about it and maybe see if they can get the funds together. Some folks only visit the forum periodically and may not know one is for sale yet. Let it ride a few weeks and see what happens.

I moved it, wife said I"m impatient too/It"s gone

 

[gemihur]

She's right!
a deal on another site (GBO)
not mine but figured you might wanna know
https://www.go2gbo.com/threads/tc-remington.421524/Good luck,
Jimmy

 

[eekjellander]

She's right!
a deal on another site (GBO)
not mine but figured you might wanna know
https://www.go2gbo.com/threads/tc-remington.421524/Good luck,
Jimmy

Nope ,I didn"t do restoration on it so no comparison buy it and spend the time making it better than new ,Comparing that with mine is apple to lemons /just sayin /Ed

 

[gemihur]

not intended as a comparison
just an opportunity
no ill intent intended

 

[gemihur]

eekjellander,
You do fine work indeed.
We should all give some of your attention to our neglected smokepoles.
I spend most of my time shaping contender furniture

 

[eekjellander]

I have taken out (steamed ) the wood walking dings /sanded down to 600 grit and 8-10 coats of rubbed in tung oil and Permalyn sealer /freshened the bluing on barrel/butt plate . As usual TC covers up some decent walnut for the sake of labor ,tung oil isn"t cheap but labor eats the profit ,turned out nice and 15 Nasa modified Lyman Plains included along with the Globe sight . I will send the original along (I can:t stand them ) as I am not keeping the gun /Excellent bore got the Lee Shavers treatment 1st thing . $400.00 + $50.00 shipping Priority /insured TYD 1st take it/ PM View attachment 15791View attachment 15792View attachment 15793View attachment 15794View attachment 15795View attachment 15796View attachment 15797View attachment 15798View attachment 15799

SOLD!/thanks for looking/Ed