barely legal

well fellow smokepollers, after reading all the posts about the omegas I just thought I would tell you about my experience with those guns. First of all I bought a knight disc two years ago,beautiful gun,stainless with a mossy oak stock,then I put a nikon scope on it.Boy did it turn out to be a shooter. But then I picked up my first omega this past summer and that is the best thing I have done to support my habbit in muzzleloading. I bought the stainless with the gray laminate stock and then I put a simmons Atec scope on it and off to the range I went. My loads were 2 triple seven pellets and the thompson center shockwaves in the 250 grain. Within 10 shots,spit patching between each shot I put the last four shots touching at a in. high at 100 yds. man was I happy,I did think it was two good to be true but neverless very happy,so off I went to the woods for the opener of muzzleloader.sat in the woods for a while then saw a big doe in the field.I got myself to the edge and put my rangefinder on her and it read 178yards.so I cranked my scope up to 10 power and put the crosshairs on her shoulder an touched her off. Well after the repore I heard the bullet hit her and down she went like I had hit her with a truck.So I went back to the place where I bought the gun basically to brag about the gun and I'll be damned if they weren't putting a new omega on the rack,but this one was the rosewood laminate thumbhole stock with the stainless barrell.Well I had to have it. So I put the same setup on it and went to shoot.This time I was useing harvester ammo.I took it out the following day and sat the edge of a standing corn field,right about dusk I saw a deers head sticking out of the corn like he wanted to come out but wouldn't,so I put the rangefinder on him yes him it said 94 yards.when I touched the trigger and the smoke cleared there was no deer so I took a walk down to where I thought he was and he was still there but now he had two holes in his neck,small one going in and a hole that you could put a golf ball in on the exit. the only thing that I,m going to change is the power,because of the crud ring issue.I just can't say enough about these OMEGAS!!! needless to say my knight is up for sale.

Triple Se7en

I hear these-type stories alot about folks exchanging their Knight Discs for Omegas.

You could of purchased a laminated stock for your first Omega instead of buying the whole rifle. They are $179 at midsouthshooterssupply.com.

MLKeith

I have a stainless Omega but with the camo synthetic stock. I don't know how you guys shoot 777. I have tried both loose powder and pellets and the crud ring is so bad even with the .25ACP conversion I finally gave up and now only use APP or Black Mag3. If BM3 was a little more available and somewhat less expensive it would be the best powder out there. I hear they have another thing in development that will be released at the shot show in Las Vegas. Maybe pellets or sticks or something similar????? I still use the .25ACP conversion while hunting because it is easier to handle the brass when hands are cold. My fingers don't like the small 209 primers.

Wolfhound76

I've got one of the Thumbhole Omegas as well. I love it, but not enough to get rid of my thumbhole stocked Disc Extreme.

newguy23

I LOVE my TC Omega SS Thumbhole fluted... It is amazing... I have a compact Burris scope and shoot powerbelts with APP powder...

If there is one negative I find the Thompson shockwaves EXTREMELY difficult to load in mine... Maybe I am just a wimp.

MLKeith

When I got my .50cal stainless Omega I could not load any sabot/bullet combinations. They would go about 1/3 of the way down and stop. I only weigh 165 pounds so that may be part of the problem. I finally ran a 200 pass lapping deal with JB bore paste and now I can load hornady bullets if I switch to Harvester sabots. I think I got the tightest barrel that Thompson made. It shoots great so I refuse to send it back.

RAKTRAKR

I dont have an omega, but the thing I dont understand is why the breech block isnt stainless with the rest of the rifle. I just bought the blackdiamond in SS and i hope its a shooter like the omega. from what i've read here, it is.
congrats on the omegas