Originally Posted by
chetmarks
I was thinking that a Knight sidelock would sure be cool, but I know it will never be a possibilty , seeing Knight has always been an inline company and pioneer of inlines.Then i thought about the fact that all Knights have Green Mountain barrels. well I have sidelocks with Green Mountain barrels, so my T/C hawken with the sharpshooter barrel 1:24 twist is a Knight equivelant. Right??? Just a thought. Do you think the barrel makes the biggest difference or a combination of all components and how they work together. Just curious as to your thoughts. With so much talk about putting the CVA Bergara barrels on a T/C then what about a Green Mountain barrel on a T/C . Are we basically turning our guns into a CVA or Knight gun??
now you you know you might have a point... I call my conversions RenGiM's - but they are still a TC in my mind...
I have a bunch of TC Renegades which I THINK are one of the best sidelocks ever made... especially early when they came with barrels made by other manufactures, but even when TC started making their own barrels they were really good.
At some point TC changed methods of barrel production and added the QLA's... I do not have any sidelocks with a QLA.
Like you though i did reach out and get some GM-LRH barrels for the Renegades. I ended up with 3 of these barrels on various TC products. These fast twist barrels allowed me to shoot the conicals that Idaho required for ML hunting... not just any conical but the big long Bull Shop conicals...
This is my favorite one - but it is in a Hawken stock in this picture and labeled as my "Idaho White" for good reasons...
This the same barrel in a Renegade stock... this is what I would use today if I was still required to use a non-inline (we were for awhile)
