Quote Originally Posted by TonyL View Post
I have shot a couple of Omegas. One belonged to a friend who I took along to Jim's WBPS shop in Bewdley in the mid-80s. The Omega was on the rack winking at us. A very nice rifle. I think it was mildly tuned. I also seem to remember it having a Kassnar scope on it. I think it was a Beta 4x32, if memory serves correctly?

The rifle and scope combo was lovely. Shot very nicely and very accurate. Trigger not up to Rekord standards, as expected, but very usable. And I loved the manual breech lock. I love these manual breech locks anyway. Solid, reassuring and such a refined way of locking the breech. Dare I say it, those detents on Longbows and ProElites don't endear me to those rifles!

I'd happily give an Omega a home (as I would a Longbow, despite the previous comment).

I wouldn't be so keen to home the underlever Eclipse that followed the Omega, though. That breech arrangement, although safe, is so, so long.....
Interesting. I briefly had an Eclipse with the 'interesting' trap-loading system (is that what it is called? makes it sound like a Snider rifle..) it had a broken stock and I'm not sure I ever shot it. What was really remarkable about it was the light weight, the cylinder being aluminium alloy. So it looked like a big underlever but it felt like a medium break-barrel. The Omega was all steel I think. Anyway, there was a whole load of stuff on the net about differential expansion of the alloy in hot weather causing problems with tolerances and that knackered it as a possible 77 competitor on the FT circuit.. but you can't say Webley weren't trying to be innovative in their last hours....