I have a TC "Custom Shop" Renegade .58.
I've exhausted the options for getting conical bullets to shoot adequately. Yardstick: I would not bet on it keeping 8 of 10 shots on a dinner plate at 50 yards. I've tried enough options for different bullets, different powders, and different caps to reasonably believe there just is no hope.
It does somewhat better, but still short of "respectable", with patched round balls.
I'm down to "modify or punt." It is a fairly late, QLA gun. I suspect the QLA is the problem. I have it narrowed down to two choices ... shorten the barrel to remove the QLA and redo the dovetail for the front sight or just punt it down the road.
Which of those two would you choose?
If trading, what would you replace it with? I want to stick with a percussion sidelock, I have no interest in inlines. I wish to shoot both PRB and conical. I could do that with either a compromise twist or two barrels.
Thoughts?
