This morning I got a chance to take the first shots with the Omega X7 after removing its QLA.

Hornady .452/300 grain XTPs in Harvester short black sabots have always shot the best from this gun. I would like to have gone through the scale using those with 75/85/95/105 grains of powder, maybe even with both GOEX and Triple Seven.

But my supply of those was down to only half a dozen bullets. So I decided to stick with one powder charge and try five different bullets.

I shot five-shot groups at 100 yards. Results weren't too bad. Had the gun been sighted in for dead center zero at 100 yards with any of them I could probably hit a fair percentage of Sabotloaders clay birds.

All bullets loaded easily with a thumb start and no short starter.

Anyway, here are the targets.

300 Grain XTPs


300 Grain SST/MLs


300 Grain Deep Curls


270 Grain Deep Curls (A bullet that never seems to shoot real well for me.)


250 Grain Deep Curls (Reduced the charge to 85 grains for this one.)


When I started shooting around nine o`clock the weather was fairly pleasant. By the time I finished near noon it was a brutal 92 degrees with 84% humidity. I was happy to quit.