My First Omega Report
 

It arrived by UPS 2:10 this afternoon. I did open it and look at it BUT I did make myself go back and finish my school work and gather some tax information.

But, here it is 8:00 pm all my, most of my chores are finished so I did get to check it out.

Triple Se7en is correct, the laminated stock really could be slick in wet weather but i think that might be an easy work-around. The next thing I really like, 28" barrel but a really short rifle, the gun the stock fit and feel great.

Cleaned the whole thing up and then I got to playwith it a bit.I removed the breech plug and started pushing things through. To my surprise, everything I have went through just fine with just ram rod pressure. No short starter required. .451 & .452's in all the variety of sabots that I have. .452's in an HPH-24 worked just fine,.452's in Harvesters, .452's in Noslers all of them insert in the QLA place Ram rodon top and push - Great... Next step .458's and a MMP HPH Orange sabots - not a problem pushed through one long stoke. Finally 10mm MMP-HPH-50/40sabots. I really was set for a disappointment here - but not to be - insert pushed right on through. I am a happy camper. No sign of the wash-board barrel problem that some people have reported.

Now, I really do wish it were Friday and I could wake up to it being Saturday tomorrow so I could go shoot it.

My scope base should be here this week also so I'll will have to go sight it in this weekend - rain-snow-cold -what ever...

I am excited about this gun.

First report completed...

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I'd of opened the back door, turned on the yard light and let a few rounds rip! :D Just kidding. Glad to see that the rifle is nice and fits well. Also glad to hear you have a good tolerance to your loads. I will be waiting for your shooting reports.

I'm so glad I do not have one of them.[&o] Shoot a round or two for me...

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Congrats on your new friend, as I have stated I really love my Omega and am really looking forward to some reports on how all those different sabots and projectiles function for you.

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Really glad to hear your new toy arrived! It is good
news that your barrel seems to accept the rounds
& sabots you tried. I will definately be standing by
for a round/sabot by round/sabot information packed,
report!!! Hope it shoots as well as you want it to.
Danny

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Sounds like ya bought a good one. Proof will be in the shooting. Watch your trigger hand. :D

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Sabot loader-Congrats on the Omega.Better stock up on more powder.Sounds like you will be shooting more,if that is possible.

Charlie

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UC

Ok I'll bite - what is going to happen to my trigger hand? Now you really have me wondering....

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;)Ye for got about that tight trigger guard didn't ye :D.

:)Al

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yooper

You know I was thinking about that very thing last night, in fact I took a couple of pictures I was going to share with you.

The trigger/trigger guard - Whenthe gun is not cocked you can not get even your bare finger in there very easy - when it is cocked it is not a problem at all. I did put a pair of snowmobile gloves on last night and gave that a try - while I might wish for a little more room it was adequate - I could hunt with it.

I think a lot of the problems stem from the fact that you can not get on the trigger while the gun is in the safe position...

I'll get to find out this weekend....

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Getting a new gun is like getting a new girl friend or just getting married. In all cases you spend a lot of time fondling your new playthings. Gona sleep with it tonight...huh. Just kidding, I was the same way a month ago when I got my Encore. Been married 15 years so had to fondle something....oops, was that out loud.

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sabotloader,congrats on the Omega.Lee

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Good luck with your new smoke pole Sabot. Hey Cayugad, what do you think of the Knight Revolution? I hear you're the Muzzleloader King!!!

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Oh, that trigger guard may not be a problem for you. My hand finally recovered. ;)

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UC

Did the recoil get you? with the finger insuch a limited area... or did you get bit cloaing the action? I am not following exactly what you are telling me...

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Recoil, mainly to the fingers other than my trigger finger but it got a little of it too. Middle finger got hit the hardest. May be peculiar to my hand and hold but any heavy load would give me a beatin' from my Omega. The one I shot (of the two I owned) was a synthetic stock, the laminates surely handle recoil better.

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sbotloader,
I'm happy for you and I hope you get years and years of good service out of your new Omega. I'm looking forward to your future shooting reports.
Have fun!

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sabotloader,
I'm happy for you and I hope you get years and years of good service out of your new T/C Omega. I'm looking forward to reading your future reports.
Have fun!

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UC

I wondered about that same thing... I certainly hope to find out about it all this weekend.

I am normally oblivious to recoil unless it reaches out and bites ya.. I guess I shouldn't say oblivious because I do dread the recoil of a 3 1/2 turkey load from my 870

I just hope the darn thing will group as well as my other guns with a variety of projectiles. Cuase I can not make up my darn mind to what i am really going to shoot - I like shooting them all. The Remingtons will shoot anything you stuff down them with just about any powder load I want to shoot and they will group great. That versitilty really amkes me happy.

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Well I am far from the muzzleloader king...:) I have four inline rifles and none of them are the modern break open type. In fact three of them are the old slide striker model and they work just fine. There are others on this forum much more familiar with inline rifles then I.

As for the Revolution, well I handled one in a store and was not all that impressed with the balance and feel of it. That's about as closeI ever came to one. Iwonder, if this is such a great rifle, why it has not made more of an impact on the sales of the Omega. While beinga Knight rifle I would think the customer service we have grown to expect would be there. I just wonder what kind of concerns Revolution owners have about the rifle. The current Revolutionownersdo not seem to appear on the different forums shouting all of the kudos of the rifle.

I really can not give you much information about the rifle. I am sure some Revolution owners on the forum could. Are there any out there?

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Sabot....I think Underclocked is just trying to see if you might want to sell cheap....:)

I sighted in a Laminated/Stainless Omega for my cousin back in September, before deer season...Recoil wasn't bad at all...didn't have the problem he mentioned...I actually only tried one load....2-50 pellets and a 250 Shockwave...grouped about 1 1/2 at 100 yards....He is a newby to muzzleloaders and called and asked what gun to buy...I had been wanting to shoot an Omega, and liked the Laminated stock over the plastic...I bet it hit 90 degrees that day, so I was glad I didn't have to do any load tuning...He was happy, and ended up killing his first muzzleloader deer with in October with that gun....Good Luck with her...

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I found out one thing about the recoil with an Omega,if your shooting off a benchrest don't put your left knuckles where the knob under the triggerguard can catch them when you are loading 150gr APP FF behind a sabot and 350 gr bullet. It makes them smart so smart that they don't go back there again. Lee

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lemoyne

After UC discussion I though of that very thing - so now I am waiting for school to get out so i can go home and see I do cradlethe gun - but i do not think I am on the trigger guard in anyway - but I can not remember...

Sometimes my job just gets in the way of fun things....

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I have fired my Omega with 120 grs loose 777 and a 375 gr. Buffalo Bullet. I am not going to tell you there wasn't quite alot of recoil but it wasn't a problem for me ( I have a Simms recoil pad on mine--made alot of difference). I have never had a problem with the trigger guard--- have fired around 150 shots and still have all my fingers.

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No, not really. It'z da truth - but you know I'm the "conical guy" :Dand sometimes I torture myself with rifles that weren't really meant for the big boolits.

DoH!! I responded to nchawkeye and failed to notice there's been a few posts since. [:-]

It's the lead fumes http://www.missouri-whitetails.com/data/500/49411280c.jpg Gonna try these featherweights in my Super91 .410 to see how they fly.

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Hope that you have as much fun with your Omega as I have had with mine the last 3 years . It shoots a raged hole at 100 yards . You just have to find the load that works best for you .
Charlie