Well ended up only shooting two rifles and the first part of the day ented up being kinda sour. First I decided to shoot the new Omega and set about bore sighting it with the sights I have put on it from my Encore. Well the sights didn't line up well and even bore sighting I know it was going to be about 8" high and it did not dissapoint me because it was at least 8" high[:@] However that was not the start of the fun for me with the Omega I had somehow purchased a box of the old Shockwaves that came with the oversized sabots and got the first bullet I ever tried putting in the rifle stuck about an inch and a half below the QLA and I could not get it down the bore so out came the breech plug and 100g of loose FFall over the trigger mechanism in went the range rod from the back and 5 or so hits with a 16ounce hammer I got the stupid thing out.

Why the hell T/C never pulled these bullets from the shelves is beyond negligent in my opinion. Well I did have the pack of extra sabots T/C sent me over a year ago when they first discovered the problem and I used them for the rest of the shooting of the Omega yesterday.

As I knew the sights were useless I just fired for function checking out how the rifle felt and whether I liked it in General. So Even with the bad time I had shooting it, it should be a good shooter. It shoulders well The recoil pad that came with it was exellent and the trigger was outstanding. In fact the triggers short creep and light break made for some confident shooting and I am sure once I get the sights set up the way I want them it will shoot fine.

Now I will talk about the rest of the days shooting with only one other rifle, the Renegade. I had been experimenting with flints and the ones that worked best in the shop were the sawn agates. This is what I used for this range session. I had also replaced the vent hole liner with a new 5/64th one and picked up some 4F for priming.

The gun shot so good and so fast you never even noticed the pan flash I felt as confident with that rifle as I ever had with any muzzleloader and even with winds a steady 15 gusting to near 30 I was able to eeck out a couple 3" and better groups by the end of the session. This was at 72yds so I am very pleased about that.

I shot around 30 rounds through it never needed to adjust the flint and never had any hangfires. It only failed to go off once and that was after cleaning the bore I forgot to wipe the pan out a the little but of moisture that came out the barrel had turned my prime to mush. A quick wipe with a dry cloth and Boom!!

This gun is good to go time for load developement and more practice. If I new flints shot this well I would have bought one sooner. Ignition time seemed to be as fast if not faster than my percussion sidelocks.