I know I said I was going to wait until the weather got better but I colden't stand it any longer, soIWent outyesturday and shot my new T.C. Omega.
This is a very pretty gun sith a S/S barrel and a Camo composit thumbhole stock. I also put on a Nikon 3-9X40 Buckmaster scope. The problem with this set up is because of the design of the thumbhole stock shooting left handed is difficult and okward so if that deer comes in the wrong way its going to be tough.
I used 100 gr.A.P. shockeys gold and I used a wet patch with T/C #13 cleaner and 2 dry patches between each shot. I must say I was impressed with how clean this powder was. The cleaning patch was brown not black as with pydrox. However the 2f powder would not work in my brass flask or powder measurer as the granuals were too large to fit through the neck of them.
The bullet I used was a 250 gr. shockwave (bleu tip) and man they were extreamly hard to get started down the barrel but they seemed to preform well.
I also used Winchester 209 primers and out of 30 I had one dud.
The Omega was a joy to shoot it had no recoil as compared to the Black Dimond. The trigger pull was very light and sharp. But with a scope on it I had a hard time getting a primer on it. (I hope this gets easier with practice) And when I got home man! Was it easy to clean.
OK now after I got the scope sighted in at 25 yards I went to the 50 yard line. And oh my god I got a group of 8 shots of less then 1 inch. But when I went to 100 yards the first shot hit almost dead bull. But the next 7 rounds were 5 in low and 5 in to the left. I don't know what happened if I blew the first shot or somthing happened to the scope. I should had shot one back at 50 but by the time I thought of it I was out of bullets. Any way thats what I found. I am going to try to powder up to 120 gr next outing to see if I can get the 50 and 100 groups to get closer. Any suggestions would be appreciated as I want to have the perfect load by the time muzzle loader season opens in Dec. (be here before ya know it). Mike