ORIGINAL: frontier gander
yeah outdoors can barely get an omega to group
When you shoot a 45 you have a lot less bullets to try out and takes time and money to figure the rifle out. Ive owned two 45's and they both are a PITA to find something that shoots well. Or i should say, PITA to find more than one bullet that will shoot.
Outdoorslover is using open sights, so 4" group at 50 would be OK in my mind with open sights, 6" unacceptable. I have had excellent grouping with 90 to 100g of loose 777 and a 300g XTP or 300g Gold Dot in my Omega. So Outdoorslover may need to do so more load and bullet selection, I however am using a 3-9 scope.
It is very difficult to find 45 bulletsexcept on the Internet at MidSouth Shooters Supply, Brownells or Cabelas. I don't recommend 45 for just that reason. My brother has a .45 FL that he uses with RBs, now the energy on this is a little lacking in my mind, now that I know about these things. I used the rifle4 seasons ago with PRB andthe flinting system on it was not good. I had a large doe in front of me about 25 yards and I "flinted" 10 times before she ran off.Iwent back to my brother's house called him on the Walkie Talkie and said tofix this darn thing.He showed me in a dark room exactly what was happening, the flint was loose, so instead of striking the frizzen with the flint I was driving the flint back into the holder with minimal spark.He put a new flint in, tighten it up and boom it was sparking big time. Oh he took the barrel off to test the sparking, so no chance of gun going off. That was one of my first FL learing experiences.
You can't pick up these little tid bits, without the fumble experience.So the lesson in here that I want to point out is 1) your flint has to be secure in the holder and 2) you can test the sparking/shower with a dark or dimly lit room--you should see a lot of sparks from a properly working frizzen and flint.
Chap Gleason