My .54 Renegade was a little bit of a puzzle to get it to shoot. Ihad it apart once and found out the stock had cracked thru the lock area, couldn't see it untill removing the lock from the stock. I did not have good groups and I was wondering why.
The solution at the time was to glass bed the recoil lug area. I did it myself and it worked really well.
After bedding I fired 3 shots at 85 yards and could cover them with a thumb as I recall.
My load was always a home cast tc maxiball and about 100 gr equivilent of pyrodex RS.
Years later after not cleaning as vigorously as I should have it didn't shoot as well.
I dropped a mini flashlight in the bore and could see the damage from rust and not cleaning.
Totally my fault.
Surprised that there are not more reports of TC Renegade stocks cracking through the lock area. The inletting leaves the wood very thin in places. I found that mine had cracked in several places. Epoxy reinforced with glass cloth was used for the fix.
