Sorta promted me to have a need to shoot one of my Renegades. Rondie shoots start next month in my area and i have this one Renegade that i hardly ever shoot.
I had left this Renegade on consignment all hunting season at the local sporting goods store hoping to sell it for Idaho's ML season. It never sold so i went down last week and re-claimed it, decided I might make it into a PRB back up gun for Rondy events.
This rifle was still equipped with the factory sights front and rear and I had an extra TC Tang Peep Sight so I thought I would put that on to help me possibly shoot it better. I put the sight on with just one screw through the rear mounting hole. Lined the sight base in the middle of the tang visually and tighten rear screw. I really feel it is mounted to far back on the tang but I am sure that it is the way TC would have done it. Cayugad has a picture of a gunsmith intalled sight with it located in between the tang screws. I actually think you would have better verticle range with the sight adjustment that way. Anyway it is installed as noted and bore sighted. Decided to go with it this was just to see if the barrel would shoot.
The barrel is an older Douglas built barrel for TC (it has the spade engraved in the barrel by the underlug). These barrels were noted for their accuracy but I really do not even remember shooting this one. It was an ebay barrel and in fact so was the stock. The barrel exterior and the stock are both less than pristine, but it is really not the exterior looks that matter. The bore looks and feels absolutely great.
Well at the farm the gun proved to be a shooter - so now I will have to finish the installation of the sight and switch out the front steel blade with a fiiber optic sight blade. Then I will go back to the farm and sight it in again...
Question for those of you that shoot Rondie events..... At what range would you shoot a gun in to be zeroed? I am leaning at 75 yards? But actually do not no what might be the best...
Here is todays progress... 'Point of Aim' was a 6:00 hold on the full circled orange ball. I never adjusted the sights as i knew I had to finish installation and change the fron sight. I really just wanted to know if this barrel would shoot PRB's...
Then for fun after shooting this target I put out a bunch of clay pigeons at 50 yards and started picking them off. it was a bit more difficult than usual because I never did zero the peep sight just used the bore sight setting.
All this Renegade talk...
