Free muzzle loader

[Tomme boy]

I was at my dealer yesterday to pick up my new revolver. He tells me he has a gun for me if I want it. At first he tells me it is a Traditions. It was having problems where it was firing by it self. It almost killed its owner he tells me. The owner was a friend to both of us. It was part the fellows fault as he had it strapped across his back and capped while they were riding their electric cat bikes across a chisel plowed fiend. Well it went off and grazed the back of his head.

I got it home last night and sure enough if you bumped it it would fire. I looked it over and the gun is a TC Redemption LRH. Not a cheap gun at all. This was a very high end gun when new. You have to take apart the butt stock to get to the trigger to see the trigger group. I ended up finding 2 things. One dirty and no oil on anything. Two the sear on the trigger was loosened up and was not engaging hardly at all.

So after looking for and hour to find a allen wrench to fit the trigger adjustment screw I found one. It is the smallest allen wrench I have ever used on anything. I had to take a torch and heat up the trigger to melt off some epoxy that was over the screw. Once that was gone it adjusted fine. I put it back together to test. I was slamming the buttstock on the concrete floor and smacking it sideways against my bench. It held just fine. The pull was the same amount as before. The adjustment was just to adjust the amount of engagement the sear had to limit travel. This was self inflected. Someone adjusted this out too far.

So, I now have another new gun to play with.

 

[Ben]

Good detective work !!!!

 

[CWLONGSHOT]

Good work TB!!

 

[glassparman]

Pictures . . .

 

[Tomme boy]

I will tomorrow. I dont have anything with the trigger inner works. I have been looking at scopes tonite as I don't have any loose ones at the moment. Thinking about a 2-7 in some flavor

 

[Spindrift]

Congratulations, good catch!

 

[L Ross]

Free muzzle loaders are nice. Maybe Free Loader Muzzles would be nicer?

 

[CWLONGSHOT]

I got my first Muzzle Loader free for fixing one for a friend of a friend who has become a very good friend today 41 years later!! I still have it too!!

It was night before BP opener and his bore was plugged. I was called and went over to see. I found a broken off ball extractor screwed into breech block!!!!! Only "obstruction" was corroded passage was for the flame!!
I got it working. We fired & sited it about 21:00 with flash lights behind the garage!!! After a couple
Beers I was handed a box that contained a T/C Renegade Kit to build my own 50cal!!

That rifle has taken 3-4 deer and resides above my front entrance for the last 23 years!

CW

 

[Tomme boy]

Going to take the 3x9 off my 12ga rifled barrel for now. If it warms up I have a bunch of new guns and other stuff that needs to be shot. But for now we will just keep getting things in order.

 

[CWLONGSHOT]

Going to take the 3x9 off my 12ga rifled barrel for now. If it warms up I have a bunch of new guns and other stuff that needs to be shot. But for now we will just keep getting things in order.

I know the feeling. Next spring is gonna be a BLAST!!

 

[richhodg66]

I was not familiar with the rifle in question so I took a little search and I think you have a good one.

Is that the same single shot action Thompson Center made for a while that the called the TCR or something similar in centerfire? Thse seem rare, but always looked good to me. Not sure why they didn't catch on.

 

[Tomme boy]

TC made the Strike. This is a collaboration with LHR and TC. Later TC made them as a Strike. I will tell you the trigger on this thing is better than any of my regular rifles. Centerfire and black powder. I know have it at about 3.5lbs by feel from my other rifles that had been measured. There is no creep or over travel.

I am ordering a 1-4x32 scope for it tomorrow. Have to wait till the bank opens to put some cash back in. We went a little overboard this month. Well a little more than a little. lol