ORIGINAL: liquidorange
i have never had better service from a company than thompson center. they are number one in my book. leupold and ruger would be a close second. i have sent in my guns to thompson center for issues through the years some of it my fault and have even got a gun back totally re- blued like i had just bought it 10 years previous. all of the work was FREE of charge including the shipping. i think your being a little harsh. your last statement was that you could still send it back so i would take it that they still want to help. dont take this the wrong way but to be honest if you knew your local hunting regs. only allowed conicals i would have looked at other gun options. not to say that the omega shouldnt shoot conicals well but i would have been happy with one of there models in a 1 in 48 twist cap lock gun. another thing is i dont think you spent enough time with your gun. half the fun is working up loads and bullet types and weights. if you only tried a couple loads then you havent done your part. i know most guns will have a certain amount of accuracy out of the box and it stinks when you cant get thing on paper but when you find a load that works well its time well spent. i bought a winchester model 70 in 338 win mag and it didnt shoot well with about 5 different types of ammo. at 40$ a box imagine how i felt. i once had a ruger in 7mm mag and threw a scope on it and was hitting dead on first couple of rounds so it can go both ways. i bet if you send it back with a note saying dont ship this back till maxi balls can shoot with some degree of accuracy they would probably figure out the problem or give you a new barrel. best of luck with that gun! .
What you say has some truth, probably the Omega is not the best gun to buy for shooting conicals. Do you really think T/C wants that on record: Don't buy an Omega if you hunt Colorado? However I did lots of research beforeI boughtwith people who used them with conicals in Colorado and had no problems. Also, my brother anda friend bought identical Omegas at the same time that do not have a problem shooting conicals.
As far as not spending enough time with the gun, you must not have caught my earlier post. I have spent over 3 years trying to find a bullet/powder combo that I have a lot of confidence in. I have tried 777, Black mag3, and APP. I have not tried pyrodex, which is my next move, because I like the ease of clean up the newer powders give me. I have used only loose powder and with each power have tried 80 gr through 110 grains in 5 grain increments with each of these bullets: Powerbelts 348, 405, and 444. No excuses 460 grain. prbullets 390gr. I primarily hunt elk so 348 grain is about the smallest grain I feel comfortable with. I did try maxiballs when I first got the gun, but don't remember them doing that well. Fixing to give them another try, possibly with a wad. My brothers gun basically shoots any bullet with 777. Just lucky I guess.
And yes, I can still send it back, but it is getting close to the season, and if this were my only gun, I would be really sweating at this point. While I didn't say "don't send it back until it shoots maxiballs" I did say I could only shoot conicals and they did nothing to help me. If they had only called before sending it back, I would not have been unhappy. In the past, I have been more than happy with their service.