RE: ML Omega shopping tommorow?
 

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Every once in a while, I get a post right Handgunr... lol. T/C makes my recommendation easy by building the Omega almost-entirely correct. There are two minor flaws like the hammer must be cocked to fit your heavy glove index finger because the guard is smallish. The synthetic stock is not the best & needs to be filled with Great Stuff poly-foam spray & two bolts thrown in the stock for better balance & branch-banging quietness.

By-The-Way.... how was that bowl of soup the day you opened that Omega box??? Was that only chicken broth (or) was there a few drowned noodles in there too?...lol

Whut?... no crackers are present .... geez! I gotta have that soup with either oyster crackers, Cheese-Its or Saltines broken-up. Gosh... I'm hungry now after looking at your soup. Thanks alot....lol

RE: ML Omega shopping tommorow?
 

T7.........

LOL............no soup there, just my wife's plate and centerpiece bowl from her Xmas table display. Laughingly, I had to go back and check the photo cause I thought maybe I had left my dirty dishes in the pic.....hehehe.....can you say embarrassing!
I like a big bowl for soup (cause I love the stuff), but that one would be like a dog drinking out of the toilet....holds about a gallon:)

I read something back awhile ago about foaming the stock on their Omega (maybe it was you). I know a buddy that owns a business that develops hydraulic systems & tables for Kodak. He has a very dense rubber that is a heavy liquid, but it hardens after several hours. This not only would deaden sound immensly, it would also add weight to the rear of the stock offsetting the imbalance problem. Maybe it's cost prohibitive, I don't know, but I gotta ask and see.
I got some hand me down leftover pyrodex pellets and a few sabots from my hunting buddy "Uncle Dennis".
We donate to each other's causes quite often, and he felt sorry for me...new gun & no powder or sabots:(.

Gotta get to my supplier for stuff to get shootin'
Thanks for the post............


Bob

RE: ML Omega shopping tommorow?
 

Bob

I never acquired the synthetic Omega. I'm not sure if you can get that rubber foaming in there. There may only be small openings once you remove the pad.

I'd suggest measuring the hollow cavity with a retractable measurer. Buy a couple of 3/8th bolts about 1-1/2" shorter than you measured. Slip the bolts in .. then shoulder for weight gain. Now either add bolts or remove one. Go buy a spray can of Great Stuff poly-foam with long nozzle. If you can, tape the bolts... if not.. no big deal. Spray until the bolts are covered. Use a thin piece of cushion foam to make-up the gap difference between the Great Stuff and recoil pad.

RE: ML Omega shopping tommorow?
 

I must really be strange as I have the synthetic stock Omega and I don't seem to notice any "unbalance" problems. Maybe it is because my rifle has a scope sling and a simms recoil pad. Mine seems to be heavy enough although without the recoil pad heavy loads definately make you uncomfortable. I prefer to save the weight for carrying and I never notice the recoil when hunting. With the simms pad the recoil is fine up to 100gr. of BM3 and 300gr. bullets which makes just about 2000fps. I guess everybody has different problems.

RE: ML Omega shopping tommorow?
 

MLKeith

I never said the rifle was heavily inbalanced. I do know my laminated was heavier & better balanced than the synthetic when I held both in the store. If my laminate Omega is a little nose-heavy, then I'm sure the synthetic could use the improvement. Take off the Simms Pad. Hold the Omega with two fingers in front of trigger guard. I prefer my rifles to "somewhat" balance with index/middle fingers put there. Odds are, one six inch 3/8th's bolt with the spray will better balance yours. Because I'm not 100% sure since I don't own the synthetic, it may take two bolts to balance.

Nobody on this forum has complained about a bad Omega balance problem. In order to quiet the loud stock, the pad must be removed. Once the pad gets removed, then it makes sense to kill two birds with one stone & add "nice" balance to the rifle while you got the pad off.

My former Traditions Tracker needed 2 lbs of bolts to balance. The little 22" went from 6 lbs to 8 lbs. It did improve felt recoil a bunch too.

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Thanks for the tip T7..........

That rubber I mentioned pours in just like goo. It fills just about every nook & cranny, and it dries in about two or three days. It's a very dense rubber like an old super ball and provides considerable weight. Both the rubber itself, and the extra weight of it, would reduce felt recoil by quite a bit.
I've got the Great Stuff and after I pull the gun apart, I'll check it all out.
Got to shoot her first though........:)

Thanks for the suggestion.

Bob

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You are probably right about no complaints on this site for balance, but I have seen other sites where that is one of the complaints. The extra weight would sure help the recoil but with the simms pad and the fact that I only shoot about 100gr. charges with 300gr. bullets I am OK with it as is and I don't have to carry the extra weight when hunting (just lazy I guess).