Hey guys, remember the "Reneken" - the pristine .50 caliber Renegade barrel on the refinished 1" Hawken stock? I had pictures of it in this thread - http://huntingnet.com/forum/black-po...-confused.html

Well, earlier this afternoon I decided to put it on my sell list. Then a little while ago I got to playing around with some of the guns (something I seem to do a lot of late at night) and pulled the Renegade barrel off of the Hawken stock and put the new .58 caliber Green Mountain barrel on it. DANG, it looks good.

I've always been a Renegade fan, but I'm getting sort of attached to that Hawken stock. Now I'm thinking about changing my collection plans.

I'll certainly keep the three sinful sister Renagades (love those scoped Rennes). But instead of having the .58 virtuous cousin on a Renegade stock, I might keep it on the Hawken stock. Then I would have a pair of virtuous Hawkens - the .58 and the .50 LRH. If I do that, I can put the .50 Renegade barrel on the Renegade stock, and sell that instead of the Reneken.

Decisions, decisions. What would you do?

I think I would probably leave it on the Hawken stock. Always nice to have a pair of each. That said, I might shoot the Hawken with the .58 before making any final decisions just to make sure you're happy with that set-up. You would hate to sell the Renegade and find out later that you liked the .58 on it better.

You might try shooting the different barrels in each stock and see what combineations work best together. Differences you can not see and only show up with accurate records can be the difference between shooting good all the time and having fliers with most groups.

Good point SuperKirby & Lee. Hadn't considered the possibility that one stock might shoot better than the other. Oh darn! I'm going to have to shoot it.