ORIGINAL: AQUATECH
Well I took the plunge today. I bought the TC Omega
Stainless/with Synthetic thumbhole stock. Shoulders
great hope to get out & shoot it Monday. Well monday
turned into Saturday. I gotthe Omega at the range
today. With open sights I was consistently in a8"
circle at 70yds. I had a few flyers is this normal or
should I chaulk it up tooperator error? I was using
2-50gr. 777 pellets and some 250 shockwaves, primed
with a kleenbore 209 primer; Omega with 28" ss
barell. I also tried some powerbelt hollow-points it
shot them fairly well but not great. The shockwaves
loaded with some difficulty but as the day wore-on
seemed to load easier. I was running a patch with
50/50 washer & alcohol solution then 2 dry between
shots. Hope to get out again and try and improve
the groups. Also on the CD that came with the
Omega they are really firm believers in bore butter,
that it helps season the barrel. Any coments?
I really want to thank all who tried and help this old
man enjoy his new toy.
You mean the flyers opened your group up to 8", or that you averaged an 8" group, but there were some fliers that went outside of 8"?? In either case, your rifle should shoot a lot better than that a 70 yards!
TC makes Bore Butter! So they try to sell it using this seasoning scam.
Seasoning is for frying pans-not gun barrels!! (Check this out.
http://www.americanlongrifles.com/american-longrifles-BBS-frame.htm
Black Powder Shooting, "'Seasoning' and cleaning questions")
Bore Butteris bad stuff for guns! Keep it out of your barrel. The only use I see for the stuff is for lubing patches for round-ball shooting, plus,if you take the plastic wads off of your Power Belts and put a dab of this grease on the post and reassemble them, ithelps ensure that the wad comes off after the bullet exits the muzzle. The only accuracy problems I've had with Power Belts was due to the wadstaying on too long. The bullets themselves are precision-swaged and very concentric. With the right charge, they are quite accurate, provided they shuck that plastic wad on schedule!
I've actually found some of these wads sticking in the 100-yard target, and this makes them shoot erratically.
Get some loose 777 in FFg size, and try to develop an accurate load. You may find that you'll have to use loose powder in order to be able to use the right amount to get accuracy. I use loose powder. Not as convenient as pellets, but muzzleloading is not supposed to be as easy as using a breech-loader!
Both the .45 and .50 cal. groups shown here were shot with loose powder, measured in avolume measure.
Good luck!
