Greetings guys.

As I said, here is the report from my first time out with my new .50 cal omega from this weekend. I went to a local sporting goods store determined to buy everything I needed in terms of maintenance and cleaning to "break it in" and keep it shooting correctly. I bought:

pre-soaked cleaning patches
bore butter
dry patches
breech plug lubricant
250 grain T/C shock waves

I had most everything else.

First Off, I want to say that I could not be more impressed with the ease of operation AND THE ACCURACY of this weapon. I basically just took this gun out of the box on Saturday and two hours later absolutely had it shooting perfect at 100 yds.

I mounted the 2-7xPine ridge scope it came with (with which I was also very impressed with as far as clarity AND usability)

Shooting sequence went like this:

-first fired just a cap
-then fired cap with powder added (no bullet)
-then cleaned with one wet patch, one dry patch (using both sides of both, then one patch greased with bore butter.

-tried to "bore sight" it using the "iron sights" compared to what I saw thru the scope (in retrospect, I think the iron sight were probably considerably off and I think I would have been better off just shooting...see below)

-loaded and fired first shot at 50 yds--DID NOT HIT THE PAPER--No idea where it went
-cleaned and lubed and loaded again
-fired 2nd shot (this time at 25 yds in order to hit something)...was about 7 inches high, 1 inch leftat 25yds.
-Ok, good starting point. Had actually brought the POI way up during the "bore sighting" so I would have been better off probably just to mount and shoot...but no big deal either way.
-Cleaned, lubed, and loaded again...Forgot to mention I decided to start with 120 grains of pyrodex and kept that same load throughout.
-moved the scope appropriately and fired 3rd shot (still at 25yds)
-Bingo!!.1 inch high,looked goodright/left.
-decided it was time to take it out to 100yds and see the real story.
-cleaned, lubed, and loaded again (didn't change the scope this time)
-fired 4th shot. Good shot. 3.75 inches high and about 1 inch right of bull.
-cleaned, lubed and loaded again.
-adjusted scope accordingly
-fired 5th Shot...BINGO!!!...DOUBLE BINGO!!!. Nailed it. right at one inch high, DEADON left/right. Cut the top 1/3rd of the Orange (using the 2 in circles).

A friend that i was shooting with (we shot a bunch of rifles that day) could not believe such accuracy could be had with a ML and now is goin to get one himself (opens up deer season here in wv for an extra week)

That was it. 5 shots (including the first total miss at 50 yds)from "new in the box" to scope mounted and dead nuts on at 100 yds. I could not be more pleased with every aspect of this gun.

-cleaned and lubed the gun and am ready for muzzleloader season. I liked the gun so well, I may take it out during regular firearm season as well a time or two

I'd like to thank you guys that gave me advice on this in here and everyone for being such a quality resource.

Does anyone think that there may not be enough energy with 120 grains of pyrodex shooting a 250grain shock wave???

If there is anything else you guys can see from my procedure that I could improve upon, I welcome your input.

Thanks again.
a totally satisfied hb