Omega Differences

[BlueWaterCaptain]

I keep seeing posts/threads on here singing the praises of Omegas, and every one makes me want one. In looking at them, I see “Omega”, Omega X5, and Omega X7. My efforts to search the topic have proven fruitless, so what’s the differences between them?

Just joined looking for info on my Omega. I guess it's an X7. Has a 24-in barrel. Bought it a couple of decades ago or something in a Walmart in Brunswick Georgia. Only one I've ever seen or heard of with a 24 inch barrel with a laminated stock with a blue barrel. Absolute tack driver and have killed Untold numbers of deer hogs. Thought you might like to see it and to see if anyone has ever heard of this rifle with Factory laminate and blue Barrel instead of stainless

 

[jsteurrys]

Looks like a regular Omgea to me.

 

[BlueWaterCaptain]

Looks like a regular Omgea to me.

As I said in the post, it's the X7 with a 24 inch barrel but I have never, ever, seen a laminate with a blue Barrel from the factory. Supposedly Cabela's sold one but it had a fluted barrel on it.

 

[ronlaughlin]

I guess it's an X7.

If it were an X7 you wouldn't have to guess it would have X7 written on top of the barrel. Also, every X7 in this house, blue or stainless, has had only one thimble; your rifle has two thimbles.

 

[jsteurrys]

https://www.modernmuzzleloader.com/threads/omega-x7.41760/
Here is a picture of an X7.

 

[BlueWaterCaptain]

https://www.modernmuzzleloader.com/threads/omega-x7.41760/
Here is a picture of an X7.

Well then still at a loss because it has a 24 inch barrel as I stated, it's blued with a factory laminate stock. Which I've never seen in any variation anywhere since I bought it.

 

[BlueWaterCaptain]

If it were an X7 you wouldn't have to guess it would have X7 written on top of the barrel. Also, every X7 in this house, blue or stainless, has had only one thimble; your rifle has two thimbles.

Also, what are you referring to when you say to thimbles?

 

[retrieverman]

Also, what are you referring to when you say to thimbles?

The thing that holds your ramrod under the barrel.

I’m not looking at your tape measure, but that looks like a 28” barrel like most Omegas.

 

[ronlaughlin]

 

[1874sharpsshooter]

Like Ron said x7 has 1 thimble. Others 2
As can be seen in photos

 

[ElDiablo]

Yeah, yours is not an X7, @BlueWaterCaptain. That’s the full size Omega.

 

[rangerod]

Appears to me to be a Z5.

 

[loaded444bear]

X7 ... a handy little 50 cal. carbine ML









Closest thing to the X7, offerred in the Omega line after the X7 was discontinued, was the Omega 'Dream Season' 50 cal. carbine...

 

[loaded444bear]

There was also a blued version of the X7 only available from Cabela's. Had one and sold it after having the rear lug tig welded and the barrel cerakoted.
The bluing was very thin from the factory. I always thought that as the budget X7.
Btw, the barrel was a short (24") tapered and fluted. There were two separate stocks available. The brown laminate, and a multicolor laminate that included some red in it. Stocks were specific to the X7 barrels due to the tapering.

 

[BlueWaterCaptain]

As I said in the post, it's the X7 with a 24 inch barrel but I have never, ever, seen a laminate with a blue Barrel from the factory. Supposedly Cabela's sold one but it had a fluted barrel on it.

So it doesn't have X7 on the top of the barrel but it's definitely a 24-in barrel with a laminate stock and a blue Barrel. At a loss.

 

[BlueWaterCaptain]

Appears to me to be a Z5.

Yeah, yours is not an X7, @BlueWaterCaptain. That’s the full size Omega.

I'm not with the gun now cuz I'm driving a tug down the Chesapeake Bay but in three or four weeks when I get off I'll have to pull it out of the safe and look at it again. I'll stick a tape measure on it to be sure. Regardless of barrel length I still have never seen one with the laminate stock and a blue Barrel from the factory

 

[BlueWaterCaptain]

Just joined looking for info on my Omega. I guess it's an X7. Has a 24-in barrel. Bought it a couple of decades ago or something in a Walmart in Brunswick Georgia. Only one I've ever seen or heard of with a 24 inch barrel with a laminated stock with a blue barrel. Absolute tack driver and have killed Untold numbers of deer hogs. Thought you might like to see it and to see if anyone has ever heard of this rifle with Factory laminate and blue Barrel instead of stainless

Another pic. With a buck on the ground

 

[sbuff]

One could have cut to a 24in barrel with ease, but as others stated it's no x7. Mine has turned into a safe queen . Could be ,the best omega of them all of you ask me

 

[BlueWaterCaptain]

One could have cut to a 24in barrel with ease, but as others stated it's no x7. Mine has turned into a safe queen . Could be ,the best omega of them all of you ask me

Whatever it is I bought it a couple years after they came out brand new in the box at a Walmart in Georgia

 

[sbuff]

One of life's mysteries,enjoy it they are fine muzzleloaders