I had no plan or objective for my Saturday shoot with the Omega X7. Just wanted to shoot the neat little gun.
So I checked the bullet bag and the powder bag to see what was handy. There weresome powder tubes withweighed 85 grain charges of GOEX FFFgleft over infrom Friday's shoot with the Great Plains flintlock, so I decided to shoot them up first. The bullet bag yielded a bunch of .458 Remington 300 grain JHPs in MMP orange sabots, so I matched them up with the GOEX and gave them a try at 100 yards.
With the 4x Simmons scope I couldn't see where the first shot hit, so I walked out to the target and found the holeat the very bottom of the target paper. So I adjusted the scope up 17 clicks and took five more shots. This bullet/sabot combination loaded fairly easily in theX7. I forgot to noteit on the target, but I wiped with both sides of one alcohol patch between shots.Here's the target.
I kinda like those three together, but the overall group isn't so great. I've heard of guys using regular 50/45 crush rib sabots for .458 bullets. I ought to give that a try, but didn't think of it at the time.
Still had some GOEX tubes left, so I dug into the bullet bag and came up with some 300 grain SSTs. So I shot them next.
Once again, I could notsee where the first shot hit. Walked to the target and found a holeat the very top of the target. Adjusted the scope back down 20 clicks, and took five more shots. These loaded a little tighter than the Remingtons. Here's the target.
Nothing to get excited about there.
Well, I've used up the tubes of GOEX, so I broke out a canister of T7 FFG and the U-View powder measure. The bullet bag gave up some 422 grain cast Lee bullets in Harvester short black sabots. I loaded them over 85 grains of the T7 and took a shot. They loaded firm, but not really tight. I was able to spot the first shot which hit just above the bull, so didn't have to walk to the target or adjust the scope, which surprised me. Took four more shots. Here's the target.
I have no idea why one of those shots went so far astray. I sure didn't notice any40 mph wind gust from the left.
The other four shots made a fairly decent group. Maybe I should play around with different loads with this bullet and see if I can get it down to an inch and a half group.
One more search of the bullet bag produced some 340 grain cast Lees in the H5045B sabots. So I shot five of those over the same load of 85 grains T7 FFG. For some reason, even though they were sized the same as the 422 grain Lees, they loaded a LOT easier - I guess due to the shorter length. They didn't do well at all - one shot even dropped off the bottom of the target. Here it is.
Well, that was my Saturday shoot. No particular objectiveand nothing serious, but a lot of fun. After the fourth target I gave up the shooting bench and my rifle reststoone of theother club members and his 7year old son, so I didn't shoot as much as I usually do. But it was fun watching that little guy busting charcoal briquettes at 25 yards with a scoped .22 rimfire. He would yell "I HIT IT" every time he smoked one.
Miscellaneous Loads in The X7
