My Omega shoots awsome, my groups are excellent @ 100yds. Shooting is not the problem, its loading. The gun is almost impossible to load. I am shooting shockwaves and I have to put all of my body weight on the ramrod to get the bullet to go down, even after using # 13 and a dry patch. I just shot a doe this weekend and went to reload a second shot without cleaning and it would not go, I had to put the ramrod on the base of my treestand and push on the stock with all of my weight (220lbs). This is not the performance I expect after spending that type of money. My buddy has the same gun shooting the same loads and has the same exact problem. He sent his back to TC and they told him there was nothing wrong, they told him to swab after every shot. That is fine when you are @ the range, but out in the woods that will not
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Could you & your buddy's problem possibly be a combination of T/C-13 swab that leaves the hot bore tacky & more difficult to load/seat another bullet (or) possibly a buildup of carbon residue/plastic fouling because the T/C-13 isn't strong enough to remove it? Last fall, I decided to start swabbing with Lehigh Valley & Ballistol. All of a sudden, my easy-loading sabot/bullet was going down the chute with brute force. Before that -- maybe three years ago, I only cleaned with a blackpowder solvent. What a mistake that was.... didn't remove didley & made loading more & more difficult due to plastic & carbon. Many blackpowder cleaners remove blackpowder fouling... that's it!
if I spend almost $500 on a gun, I should not have to swab it after every shot, I do use 777, but I also used 777 in my Knight had no problem.
How much 777 powder are you using & do you swab with a brush or jag? With 777 fff and cool primers like CCI regular, I've gone three 777 shots without swabbing... but not in the old days with 777 FF and hotter Winchester/Federal 209 primers... no way Jose!
Knight Rifles manufacture oversized bores in their guns... generally .503. With White Rifles no longer in factory-type production due to bankruptcy, Knight is the only "current production" manufacturer doing so with MLs that I'm aware of. The rest are smaller bores... ie... CVA, Traditions, Remington, T/C ... etc.
MMP.com sells thin 45-cal plastic sabots. After reaching their website, retrieve their phone# & ask for the thin-petal, #24-grade sabot for 45/50 bullets. Del Ramsey - if he's there, will help you. Also, Harvester 45/50 plastic sabots (50-pk) are thinner than most. Find those in most hunting stores.