I have a question for all omega shooters. To what extent do you disassemble the gun for cleaning? Do you take off the stock? The trigger mechanism? Does it vary with the shooting conditions?

I'm a little antsy since I had a small amount of rust below the stock last season. With a hot barrel (from the hot soapy water) and a scope attached tearing it down to nuts and bolts get's a little awkward.

What's your routine? Thanks, Tom

gopherfan

I do remove the barreled action form the stock to clean and to do the hot soapy water treatment. I do not remove the scope but I am pretty careful not to get it invloved in the hot water treatment. If you have 'quick detachable' mounts and you trust them remove the scope.

I remove the breech plug assembly.

I also clean the firing pin assembly... the block that comes up covers the 209 primer... Their are a couple of types of assemblies... Wolfhound did some schematic drawings of these assemblies. I have the one for mine but I did not save the other. You could PM Wolfhound and asked him for a copy of his drawings - if yours is not like mine.

I do not remove the trigger assembly but I do flush it re-lubricate it.

I do clean the inside of the stock...

After cleaning the barreled and lubricating the trigger I will lubricate the complete underside of the barreled action then install it back in the stock and complete the clenaing job...

Hope some of this helps....

That's great help. Thanks Sabotloader, I think I have the same firing pin assembly as pictured. The last thing I want to do is screw up my gun with inadvertent neglect. Tom

I thought these new, modern inlines were easier to clean?

The inside of the barrel maybe...but the contraptions on the outside are tricksy. My other issue is that we've moved to a new home and I lost my "man room" where I could make a mess. My wife found me cleaning my gun in the guest bathroom with black powder fouling covering the sink and countertops with dirty paches all over the floor. Trying to not chip the tile and stain the white rug were added challenges.

Next project: complete my new man room. I just have to unpack 20 boxes first.

I take off the barrel from the stock(two screws is all), and then take out the breech plug. I just use TC bore cleaner and run patches up the barrel withmy ramrod with a jag on the end and a T handle on the other. When that's shining, I clean the breech plug threads in the barrel. Then I clean the breech plug and lube it. I oil everything with Rem oil and reassemble. Simple...................

If you really want to do it fast, just run patches up and down the barrel withthe gunassembled---then take out the breech plug and clean it and lube it. Put it back, oil and you're done.

One tip. Make sure your patches are wet before running them down the barrel or you will get them stuck. By the way---I have never gotten rust using my method.

It's either the one Sabotloader posted or the one at the bottom of the post with all the pictures.

http://www.go2gbo.com/forums/index.php/topic,100754.0.html

A nice guy got me the pictures of the newer style since he had one. That let me figure out the diagram and I was told it was right for his.

If anyone knows of a third style let me know. I can update the info.

That is what garages are for. I don't park my cars in my garage, and keep all my tools and hunting cloths in the garage. Of course you can never start parking in the garage or you will be sunk, cause you will get that taken over also. Chap Gleason

When I shot an Omega (have since solditso I could buy more to try in my search forthe "perfect" inline) I always pulled the barreled action out of the stock for cleaning. I would usually (for just a "routine" cleaning between shooting sessions) take a cloth and lay over the breech block and action to keep dirt from falling in there. Pull the breech plug & clean the barrel & threads (& breech plug). Then remove the covering cloth (an old wash cloth works good) and clean the face of the breech block.
About every three months, or before a long storage session, I would pull the whole trigger assembly and carefully clean everything.
Never had any rust problems.
BTW - a good set of Q/D scope rings helps. I used T/C Maxima rings & bases so I could easily remove the scope. Very good rings & bases, it returned to zero every time!

has anyone tried cleaning the omega like in the video without taking it out of the stock.