Ageing Renegades
 

Not sure on the age of it. The serial # consists of a Letter 4 #'s and another Letter.

L 31## K

I bought it around '87

Thanks,

HA

Sounds like a kit gun because of the letter K. And as for age, well I purchased a Renegade in 79 and it too was a kit. The serial number is K 5***. But the first number is 5 so your serial would indicate its smaller then mine. I am not sure what the L is for. The K in my number is the first number and there is no L.

Thanks Dave and yes mine was a kit gun as well.

I wonder when the first year of production was for the Renegades?

HA

First one was in the 70's I think.

Looks like 77 for the Renegade and 70 for the Hawken.

In 1977, T/C came out with the Renegade as a lower-cost alternative to the Hawken. Instead of the Hawken's brass furniture, it had blued steel. It also lacked a nosecap on the stock and instead of a crescent buttplate, had a shotgun butt. This makes it more comfortable to shoot with heavy loads.


http://blogostuff.blogspot.ca/2012/0...ck-powder.html

HA

They were under $200 too. Wouldn't that price be nice now?

For some reason I think it cost me more than that when I bought mine. Being Canadian our dollar sucked in the 80's. Nobody shot BP up here and I had to order the rifle through a brokerage company who nearly broke me in my crappy Army pay back then.

But damm! It was mine! Genuine Thompson Center!!!:happy0157:

HA

I found an old catalog page for the Renegade. It was $185.

Yeah, you guys get screwed in Canada for prices, but it's nice there.

My best friend owned a Sporting Goods Store and had a FFL. He came to me one afternoon and said his supplier had a deal on Thompson Center Renegade Kits in .54 caliber for $149.99.

How many did you buy?