Well, I may have finally found the "magic bullet" for my Omega. Went out for a couple of hours yesterday. Decided to go back to Pyrodex and see what would happen. Tried 370 grain maxiballs: 3" group at 25 yards was the best I could do. Buffalo bullets were even worse. Then I tried the new 338 platinum powerbelts with 100, 110 and 120 grains of pyrodex.With 120 grains of pyrodex, I shot 9 bullets at 100 yards. With a peep sight, 7 of the nine were within a 5 inch group.2 fliers made the group 6-1/2 inches. Going to go back out and try that combo several more times, but since my personal max is 100 yards, I think I have finally found a combination that I can have confidence in. At least in the2 Omegas I have tried the new platinum powerbelts in, they have been accurate. Just hope they live up to their billing in terminal performance.

Those do sound interesting. And it looks like they are going to work for you. Keep us posted if you have a chance to use them in a hunting situation. I'd be interested as well as a number of others as to how they do. That should be a nasty load with that kind of powder charge and that bullet.

cayugad,They seem to work ok[Platinium PB] I had a chance to try some in my Omega [I have a two and a halfpower scope on it] and shot two groups with 150 APP_FF since thats what the others shoot good with both groups were right at 2 inchs not bad for PB's. Lee

Txhunter58,

That's great news. Definitely a group you can hunt at 100 yards with. I hope you have a successful hunt and look forward to hearing about it. I'll be hunting about 60 miles north of where you are hunting. With a little luck, maybe we'll all fill our tags.

Phil

Good job 58 I still think with a little more work you can do better then 5 in groups but thats a start.

LEMOYNE ???? Can you tell me what the difference in POI is between the reg. shock waves and the new platiniums are. I have a feeling that TC is going to do away with the old shock waves after this year. I hope not but it woulden't be the first product I have really liked that was done away with

I've also found it difficult to work up a good load in my Omega. Since I'm hunting CO, I have to use conicals. The best I've worked up so far is 460 No Excuses with 120 gr 777. I get about 3 in groups at 30 yards. I am not excited about that and have decided that 50 yds is my shot limit this year. The platinums sound interesting, but I don't think they are legal in CO. I think I can only use 100% lead. I have also tried MaxiBalls and Great Plains. Now, Shockwaves shoot great at 100yds.........

You can use ANY .50 caliber powerbelt bullet in Colorado. ALL .50 cals are legal. So if you shoot PB's better in your Omega, by all means, use them.

Phil

Don't know if you been following this but txhunter58 is shooting open sights. From his previous posts it would seem his 100 yard sighting presicionwith his peep is probably 1.5 MOA, which is excellent.NO conicals shoot well from his omegaand I'm satisfied that the majority of the remaining 3.5 MOA is the fault of the omega.

I just re-read the regulations and you are correct. I wonder why I was under that impression. Did the regs change for 2006? I thought there was, or used to be, a 100% lead (no plating) rule.

As far as I know, PB's of 50 cal. have always been legal for elk in Colorado, even the plated ones. What did change (I think) for 2006 is that .50 cal RB is now legal for elk. Best I can tell, .45 RB isn't legal for any big game.