Next Gun in the Rock Pit
Sept 5, 2010 13:42:39 GMT -5
Post by sabotloader on Sept 5, 2010 13:42:39 GMT -5
With all the talk about Knight, TC, CVA, Savage - I was sitting here thinkingthis morning what gun should I shoot this week in the pit?
I have some more test bullets from Lehigh showing up this week, 50 cal sabotless, and need to run them through a bore. I gave it a little thought, then decided I have not shot the Omega in ages... I am totally biased, I admit that right off the top, but I think the Omega is one of the best guns TC ever offered. I truly do like it even better than my Triumph.
I long ago installed a 25 ACP breech that I made on the drill press. That really cleaned up the breech area. I use both CCI-400 and CCI-450 primers in the 25 acp cases. The 450 work very well with BH and with a Lehigh Vent liner installed there is no contest.
The gun has always shot lights out and I enjoy shooting it a bunch. I hunted with it a few years - took a few animals with it - but i could just never get real comfortable with the need to pull the hammer back before I could get a shot off. I am so locked into a thumb safety am exposed hammer gun has always been a mental problem with me, even going all the way back to when I was little kid hunting with a Winchester Model 94 30-30 (which I still have).
Shouldering this Omega with the Bushnell Elite 3200 is an auto-reflex for me still today when I tried it - it is just a comfortable gun.
Another thing I want to try is some .458/275 and 300 grain Lehigh's from it. It is sighted in for a .451/260 grain Nosler Partition - so I am thinking I should be very close with both bullets.
The big Question is whether the new 50 cal sabotless will fit? I will say - we?, but it really is Dave's project, but anyway I believe the way Dave is building these they might be universal across a wide range of 50 cal ML bores - excluding the the bigger Knight and White .504 bores - but I do not even want to rule them out yet.
I am supposed to get Revison 2 of the 45 sabotless also but they will have to wait for another day. I really do just want to shoot one of TC's finest...
Here is a picture of my good buddy...
And it must be a pretty good gun - I think CVA copied it twice?
I have some more test bullets from Lehigh showing up this week, 50 cal sabotless, and need to run them through a bore. I gave it a little thought, then decided I have not shot the Omega in ages... I am totally biased, I admit that right off the top, but I think the Omega is one of the best guns TC ever offered. I truly do like it even better than my Triumph.
I long ago installed a 25 ACP breech that I made on the drill press. That really cleaned up the breech area. I use both CCI-400 and CCI-450 primers in the 25 acp cases. The 450 work very well with BH and with a Lehigh Vent liner installed there is no contest.
The gun has always shot lights out and I enjoy shooting it a bunch. I hunted with it a few years - took a few animals with it - but i could just never get real comfortable with the need to pull the hammer back before I could get a shot off. I am so locked into a thumb safety am exposed hammer gun has always been a mental problem with me, even going all the way back to when I was little kid hunting with a Winchester Model 94 30-30 (which I still have).
Shouldering this Omega with the Bushnell Elite 3200 is an auto-reflex for me still today when I tried it - it is just a comfortable gun.
Another thing I want to try is some .458/275 and 300 grain Lehigh's from it. It is sighted in for a .451/260 grain Nosler Partition - so I am thinking I should be very close with both bullets.
The big Question is whether the new 50 cal sabotless will fit? I will say - we?, but it really is Dave's project, but anyway I believe the way Dave is building these they might be universal across a wide range of 50 cal ML bores - excluding the the bigger Knight and White .504 bores - but I do not even want to rule them out yet.
I am supposed to get Revison 2 of the 45 sabotless also but they will have to wait for another day. I really do just want to shoot one of TC's finest...
Here is a picture of my good buddy...
And it must be a pretty good gun - I think CVA copied it twice?
