Need your help picking a new load for my Omega
 

I've fought trying to get any Powerbelt to shoot worth a damn out of my Omega for 2 years now. Thought I had it but after missing a deer @ 35 yards I've had it with them. They just won't shoot consistantly. I'm now looking for a new bullet. So anybody please let me know what bullet and powder charge you are getting to group well with your Omega.

RE: Need your help picking a new load for my Omega
 

treestandsnyper

See if you can get to this thead onanother sight - think I wrote quite abit in it. I also shoot an Omega.

http://www.modernmuzzleloader.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=10867

If'n you can get there let me know and I'll try to copy some of it over here...

RE: Need your help picking a new load for my Omega
 

sounds like a QLA problem as usual.

try a 250gr xtp in a black short mmp-24 sabot. 275gr parker hydracon in a mmp-12 sabot. 100gr powder * i use pyrodex rs)

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Try a 250 or 300 gr Shockwave with a Harvester short black sabot and 100 - 120 gr. of the powder of your choice. I have had great results with this load out of my Omega. You could also try a 300 gr .430 Hornady XTP with a Harvester Green Crush Rib sabot. I have heard good things about this load and the Omega. I have some but I haven't had the chance to try them yet. One of these loads should shoot very well in your gun. I think you will be much happier with one of these than you were with the powerbelts. Much better bullets.

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Thanks for the link, yes it worked for me. I'm a member over there too. Nosler's are working for you. I've heard alot of good things about them.

RE: Need your help picking a new load for my Omega
 

ok, call me stupid, but what is a QLA problem?[&:]

RE: Need your help picking a new load for my Omega
 

tc often has QLA issues where they drill them off center or something and they puke when it comes to shooting conicals. The QLA is the unbored end of your barrel.

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I could load marbles or rocks from my drivewayin my Omega and be happier than I was with the Powerbelts...seriously they just plain sucked out of my TC. Shot the Powerbelts's fine out of my Traditions, CVA, and NEF muzzleloaders, but they wouldn't group in my Omega.

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Thanks for clearing that up for me...I'm a bowhunter mainly, but I've been shooting a muzzleloader for a few years now. Still got alot to learn in regards to muzzleloaders.

RE: Need your help picking a new load for my Omega
 

treestandsnyper

Since you can get on over there you might check this thread also... The new SST/SW's might have a problem. I do not shoot them so i really do not know.

http://www.modernmuzzleloader.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=10479

As another suggestion if you would prefer a less expensive bullet and a bullet you can afford to shoot at paper, check out the Speer Gold Dots. the .452/250 grain GD is a great performer on whitetail, and the .452/300 will work as well with a higher BC.

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I think I'm gonna go tomorrow and pick up some of the Nosler Partition-HG's. See how theyshoot thru the TC and hopefully get back out in the woods this next weekend, with a little more confidence than I had after the shooting Powerbelts.

RE: Need your help picking a new load for my Omega
 

sabotloader, another question for ya...what powder charge are you using with those 260 grain Nosler HP's? I have been using 2 50 grain Pyrodex pellets (100 gr. total).

RE: Need your help picking a new load for my Omega
 

treestandsnyper

That will or should work just fine... I shoot T7 loose and I shoot 110 in the Omega, but for years I shot 100 grains.

Hope you have some sabots avaialble also. I shoot the HPH-24, I can shoot the the Short black harvester, but they are fairly tight. I can not even imagine that you might get the HPH-12 or MMP's short black down your barrel at all.

If you can find some Harvester black 'crush rib' that might be the best compromise to get started with.

Here is a pic of relative sizes of sabots... Normally Omega's have rater tight bore - mine is an older one and it is .502 which will allow me to get the 24 down - the newer Omega's are even a bit tighter than that.

RE: Need your help picking a new load for my Omega
 

They will not shoot in my Omega either. Shoots most any saboted bullet I can stuff or hammer down the bore with good accuracy. My advise for a hunting bullet-Nosler 260 HG. Others do well with Gold Dots or Barnes You have an excellent rifle,don't cheap out on the bullets,you only need one per deer. Besides if you shoot power belts with pellets,you will spend more $$ than I do with my "expensive" boolets

Charlie

RE: Need your help picking a new load for my Omega
 

I had just about given up on my Omega shooting conicals until I tried the new Hornady FPB. That and blackhorn 209 works well, but it is the ONLY thing that has shot well (conical wise) out of it. They may or may not shoot out of your particular Omega. I would stay in the 80-110 range on powder. More than adequate for deer. My elk load this year was 90 gr of BH 209 with the FPB. Put a big cow elk down in short order.

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txhunter58
Have you heard of any TC that wont shoot the FPB with BH209?
I know some CVA dont do well with them, one of the members of our shooting club brought one to me said that it would not, but when I checked it out the breach plug was cracked, when BP was replaced with a good one it shot ok. Told him to keep that CVA on the other end of the line from me. Lee

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i shoot 250 gr. black sabot shockwaves out of my omega with 3 pellets and it shoots an honest 1.5 in. at 100 yards, have 4 friends who shoot the same set up (some with 2 pellets) all with similar results