etothepii, T/C has a lifetime warranty.Send your Renegade back to T/C. Chances are if the barrel is bad they will replace it at N/C.Call them they might just want the barrel and hooked breech sent back.T' C has the best warranty I have ever found.If indeed your barrel is bad 175.00 is steep.I had two stocks crack. The first one was close to 25 years old. T/C replaced the complete gun less the ramrod and barrel.New lock,stock with all the hardware.A year later going to fire it for the first time I noticed the new stock was cracked again. This time I sent the complete rifle back instead of just the cracked stock.In no time I had my newly stocked rifle back.All it costed me was the shipping to T/C' s facility in Rochester NH.

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