Omega 6, officially off the fence(pic heavy page 5)

So took mine out for it's first test drive.

- 300 rds using CCI 180gr
- 2 x 45 generic mags (7 rds)
- 3 x Tripp 40s&w mags (10rds)
- 1 x mec (included)

The mec 8 rd mag was flawless. Loaded 5 at first, then fully loaded them. Not one issue. Use the mag 6 or 7 times during this session.

The 45 rd generic 7 rd. Had consistent fail to feed. 3rd or 4th shot would not quite make it in. Had to re-rack and fired just fine after that.

The Tripp mags I had to say were inconsistent of the bunch. Sometimes flawless no issue, then sometimes a failed to feed. Once re-rack, was fine after that. I can't say one was better than the other out of the 3 that I had.

Like others have said, I'm quite happy with the purchase. Finish was nice and was very accurate out of the box. As Hitzy mentioned, I may look into changing the spring.

So far so good.
 
I have a couple of those cheap 7 round blued mags and they suck in every gun I have tried them in. Honestly the best functioning I found for my .45 and .40 are the ACT mags....
 
Dquick is yours the FL guide rod version or GI?
Are the Tripp mags 40 or 10mm? I have found the Tripp springs to be fairly stiff an 40 length rounds in the 10mm mag tend to drag the round below the one being stripped. Were the stoppages in the first few rounds or no consistent pattern to when they occurred?

I found the hybrid followers in the Tripp mags were slightly more reliable.
 
tictactician said:
Dquick is yours the FL guide rod version or GI?
Are the Tripp mags 40 or 10mm? I have found the Tripp springs to be fairly stiff an 40 length rounds in the 10mm mag tend to drag the round below the one being stripped. Were the stoppages in the first few rounds or no consistent pattern to when they occurred?

I found the hybrid followers in the Tripp mags were slightly more reliable.
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GI Rod.

Tripp mags are 10 round 40s&w. Inconsistent so far. Sometimes all mags would have no problems at all. Sometimes I would have 1 or 2 fail to feeds with 1 mag. However, when they do fail, it would occur at either the ~3rd, 4th or 5th round (1st half, don't recall them failing in the 2nd half).

One thing I do recall, is that I would have less failures when I insert the mag and rack the slide manually (little harder than usual), rather than using the slide release. I'll remember to keep tabs on that next range session.
 
Went to the range again today, took 200 rounds. 150 rounds of commercial reloads and 50 rounds fiocchi factory ammo both 180 grain tmj flat nose.

First off the ammunition, to the naked eye the factory looked nearly identical to the reloads. Under closer inspection with a magnifying glass the reloads had more of a lip or edge where the case mouth meets the projectile than the factory. The factory also was .002 longer overall than the reloads when measured with calipers.

The magazine, i only used the included 40/9mm that came with the gun. Although i had done a few passes with the file on the bottom of the mag release notch.

Now the shooting, out of the total 200 rounds this trip only 8 feed problems. 1 factory round of the 50 fed up to high and missed the chamber the other 49 worked flawlessly. The other 7 failures in the reloads 5 of them where the first round of the magazine and they would jam between the slide and the barrel ramp after clearing these rounds they where all noticeably shorter, the other 2 failures happened mid mag and they fed against the bottom of the chamber.

In summary, I believe that there is still some breaking in to be done and i think that the commercial reloads have a weak crimp as they are compressing when they run into resistance on the feed ramp rather than sliding up. The fact that the 50 factory rounds only had one failure supports the theory that the problems i am having are likely ammo related.

Was a good day.
 
Say MAX was the bullet profile the same on the factory and reloads?

Sent my order in for an Omega today. If I can get my act together it will be my Classic gun for next year. I'll move the Delta to back up.
 
I'd say stay away from the .40 Brownells/metalform mags....I got an 8 rounder from Wolverine when I bought my gun and the back spacer was not crimped in place and of course made the mag useless. Sent it back for the 10 round version and the follower would jam half way down the mag.....so I'm 0/2 on that brand.
 
My Omega 6 arrived today. It has the full length guide rod. The guide rod seem to be made of two pieces. Never seen that before. It came with a MEC Gar 9mm/40 mag.

Cleaned it all up and tried some dummy rounds hand racking. This is what I found.
The MEC Gar mag fed my 1.135 COAL SWC perfectly. My 1.2 COAL Dummies would not fit in the Mag.
The Tripp 10mm mags fed both the 1.135 and 1.2 COAL without issue .

I did have a problem with the slide release not letting go when I tried to slingshot the slide closed. The slide stop would not drop clear.

When I investigated this I found the mags were held very high in the gun. It looks like a new slide stop my be in order to see if it will solve the problem of dropping free. The good news was all the 1.2 length dummies went fully to battery meaning I won't need to throat the barrel if the longer loads are chosen.
The rainy season has begun here so not sure when I will get out to shoot it. The finish is not great and I am might need to do something about that.
 
Got some different ammo to try out looks like its got a decent crimp, im going to sneak up to the range do some more testing in a bit. If different ammo doesn't help i will start trying mags so far for options all i can find are sti mags or a trip mags.

Side note i bough some tipton dummies and they will not eject at all had to push them out from the muzzle.
 
Berry's make some round nose projectiles that would probably solve a bunch of feeding issues....I've been draggin my ass loading for this gun though, I was hoping to have at least ONE centerfire pistol I can just grab ammo and go shoot. I load for everything else already though....just tired of loading :)
Marstar is out of the 180's but they have these 155's that a person could probably get going pretty f'n fast
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I'm still slacking on mine, decided I need to replace the beavertail as well, something about its shape is creating pressure points on my hand, and that is with the relatively few rounds through it I've managed.
 
150 rounds later, 100 new stuff 50 old stuff. 4 miss feeds with the new stuff that fed up the ramp missing the chamber. 5 of the old stuff jammed up straight against the frame.

Definitely seeing some improvement.
 
I took mine out for it's second go at the range on Saturday. Fired 100 reloads and 50 American eagle factory rounds. After the first go round, I took the original, and the two stainless mags apart and gave the sides a light coat of gun butter.

I fired the reloads first, then the factory loads. My son fired the first two magazines and had no feed issues. I fired the third magazine, and had a high feed on the 6th round. The next few mags had a random failure to feed each. Then I started to get 1, 2 or 3 feed issues at random for every mag. No difference with the factory loads.

At first, I though things were getting better, but the the feed problems started to increase so I put the gun away. The one thing I can say, is that out of the 12 handguns I own, this gun is a tie for the best shooting gun with my stainless FEG 9 mm Hi Power copy from an accuracy perspective. I think it has more to do with fitting my hand better than the others.

I think it is a combination of magazine, feed ramp, and bullet shape issues. I love the gun, but hate the feed issues. I will take it out one more time after messing with the mags a bit, and then send it off for trigger and ramp work.
 
heavenIsAlie said:
I'm still slacking on mine, decided I need to replace the beavertail as well, something about its shape is creating pressure points on my hand, and that is with the relatively few rounds through it I've managed.
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The pad is a little fat and can be thinned down and cold blued....
 
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