Picked up an Omega last night

[brad502a]

Boyds stocks are not wood,I think they are laminate.But anyway,it did not hurt it.

It is a laminate of wood and glue. Multiple layers of differently dyed wood wafers and glue in between, compressed and allowed to dry. You want to finish wood, laminate or otherwise you use Tru Oil, Varnish, Shellac, or Permalyn finishes. I apologize for the digression but this is sore subject for me. Oh well I can lead the horse to water...

 

[brownisdown]

Pardon me for not knowing it all!

 

[brad502a]

No pardon needed, just trying to share some knowledge on wood finishing. If I upset you, I apologize it was not my intention.

 

[Hulions]

Will be using BH 209 Powder and have lots of bullets and sabots around will probably start out with my 300 Grain XTPs in a Green Crush rib over 70 Grains weighed BH. Anyone have any loads that shot really well from an Omega. Not trying to cut corners on my load development Just Ideas on anything I might need to try.

My Omega loves the following loads:

77 gr (weight) of BH 209, Win 209 primer, and .452 Speer Gold Dot 300gr. bullet with a Harvester short black sabot, or a .430 Hornady FTX 265 gr. bullet in a Harvester green crushed rib sabot.

My load this year is 84 gr. (weight) of BH209, Win 209 primer, and a .430 Harvester White Lightening 300 gr. bullet in a Harvester green crushed rib sabot.

To be honest, it shoots most of what I stuff down the barrel pretty well.

 

[RobRed]

Gun oil does not belong on wood. EVER

Most gun oil is a mineral oil maybe cocktailed with a few other things. The only thing made out of wood mineral oil belongs on is a cutting board.

 

[Omega218r]

Getting in late here but thought to toss in my 2 cents. Using two different Omega’s I am using 300 grain XTP bullets with HPH24 in one and HPH12 in the other with 70 measured grains of BH209. Very good accuracy and performance

 

[Ron Huff]

Thanks for the info

 

[Swamp]

Thats a gooden! I just picked up another Omega myself, and going thru it now. I absolutely love these!

 

[Mike3888]

Spotted a stainless camo stock omega in one of my local shops today. Sticker was 475.00. It’s still there I only went in for powder. Got some Reloder 7 and 17. They had IMR 4198 for 60.00. Left that there also.

 

[bronko220002]

Boyds stocks are not wood,I think they are laminate.But anyway,it did not hurt it.

Yes they are laminated but they are wood. The laminate is different types of wood glued together with a strong resin.