Good day with my .54 Renegade.

[Muddly]

I deepened the lock inletting to eliminate the pan/ barrel gap, installed a RMC touch hole liner and JB the snockers out of the bore.
Was previously using .530 ball and a .015 patch. Yesterday, the first ball rammed WAY to easily. The patch was pretty blown, no surprise there. I switched to some .018s. Very nice in terms of force needed to ram and recovered patches were almost reusable!
The set trigger needs a bit of work, so these were shot unset. For me, these are excellent results.
Now I need a TC factory aperture sight and I'll be able to tighten things up a bit!

 

[LawrenceA]

May I inquire as to what distance these were shot?

 

[Muddly]

50 yards

 

[Eric Krewson]

I have posted this before; look at your trigger bar, it may be as rough as a washboard, I had a terrible trigger on a Renegade, upon inspection was a trigger bar that was beyond rough.

I polished it with successive grades of sandpaper and removed the ridges. My trigger became as smooth as silk and the front trigger poundage dropped by several pounds.

A little out of focus but you can see how rough the trigger bar was by looking at the section I didn't polish. Yu can't tell it from the picture but my final step was with a Dremel buffing wheel and polishing compound until the surface looked like a mirror.