The Omega is one Hell of a muzzle loader, with its 1:28 rate of twist you will find that it prefers a little heavier of a bullet, start out with bullets around 300gr, granted some guys do get good results with lighter bullets
Next thing to think about is pellets or lose powder, pellets are nice, however you can only tweak you load in 50gr increments as oppose to loose powder where you can adjust you powder amount for the best possible accuracy
If you go with pellets I would highly recommend Triple 7 over anything else, It is a very consistent reliable and accurate powder...With the 777 you will want to use a low charge muzzleloader primer
If you go with loose powder I would recommend Black Horn 209 This stuff is the cats ass, I get super accuracy, it is very reliable, not highly corrosive, and is not affected by humidity or dampness as much as other powders.... The other nice thing about BH209 is that you do not need to swab the barrel between shots, the bullet will load just as easy on the first shot as it will on the 50th shot...With 777 your only going to get about 3 or 4 shots before you'll need to clean the barrel
also with BH209 it takes a little hotter primer to ignite the powder, So you need to use #209 shotgun primers, not the #209 muzzy loader primers
you may hear bad things about BH209 not fireing or people having hang fires with it, only three things will cause this,
1 they were not using full strength #209 shotgun primers
2 pore breach plug design or dirty breach plug
3 bad or wet powder
some breach plug designs just dont allow enough fire from the primer to get to and ignite the main charge, infact some muzzleloader companies are now offering newly designed breach plugs do to the popularity of BH209, You will not have this problem with the Omega, it has the ideal breach plug design to work perfect with BH209
Here is a 100yd 5 shot group from my Omega, recipe for this is : 100 grains of 777 pellets, 300grain Hornady SST with the low drag sabot, and Federal Fusion muzzyloader primers
I have since found a better more accurate load out of my Omega, My current recipe is : 90 grains of Black Horn 209, 340grain Dead Center bullet made by Precision Rifle, and CCI #209 shotgun primer
Im getting better accuracy with this set up, gun is shooting sub MOA at 100yds, and shooting groups just over MOA at 200yds, sorry I dont have any pics of performance from this set up, but trust me it is deadly
The other great thing about BH209 is clean up, no soap and water, special cleaners, you use the same stuff that you clean regular centerfire rifles with, Hoppes #9, CLP, shooters choice etc
Next thing to think about is pellets or lose powder, pellets are nice, however you can only tweak you load in 50gr increments as oppose to loose powder where you can adjust you powder amount for the best possible accuracy
If you go with pellets I would highly recommend Triple 7 over anything else, It is a very consistent reliable and accurate powder...With the 777 you will want to use a low charge muzzleloader primer
If you go with loose powder I would recommend Black Horn 209 This stuff is the cats ass, I get super accuracy, it is very reliable, not highly corrosive, and is not affected by humidity or dampness as much as other powders.... The other nice thing about BH209 is that you do not need to swab the barrel between shots, the bullet will load just as easy on the first shot as it will on the 50th shot...With 777 your only going to get about 3 or 4 shots before you'll need to clean the barrel
also with BH209 it takes a little hotter primer to ignite the powder, So you need to use #209 shotgun primers, not the #209 muzzy loader primers
you may hear bad things about BH209 not fireing or people having hang fires with it, only three things will cause this,
1 they were not using full strength #209 shotgun primers
2 pore breach plug design or dirty breach plug
3 bad or wet powder
some breach plug designs just dont allow enough fire from the primer to get to and ignite the main charge, infact some muzzleloader companies are now offering newly designed breach plugs do to the popularity of BH209, You will not have this problem with the Omega, it has the ideal breach plug design to work perfect with BH209
Here is a 100yd 5 shot group from my Omega, recipe for this is : 100 grains of 777 pellets, 300grain Hornady SST with the low drag sabot, and Federal Fusion muzzyloader primers
I have since found a better more accurate load out of my Omega, My current recipe is : 90 grains of Black Horn 209, 340grain Dead Center bullet made by Precision Rifle, and CCI #209 shotgun primer
Im getting better accuracy with this set up, gun is shooting sub MOA at 100yds, and shooting groups just over MOA at 200yds, sorry I dont have any pics of performance from this set up, but trust me it is deadly
The other great thing about BH209 is clean up, no soap and water, special cleaners, you use the same stuff that you clean regular centerfire rifles with, Hoppes #9, CLP, shooters choice etc