Koon’s involvement with quality crafted firearms. His third company Omega Arms was possibly Koon’s first real claim to fame. He established the business around his invention of the Omega Rifle, a very high-end hunting rifle, of which he only built 1,000 before he sold the rights to an aerospace company, called Hi-Shear. ![]() Although, Hi-Shear had only produced a limited amount of what they named the Omega III Rifles before shutting production down, Koon was able to personally gift one of the first rifles built by the company to actor John Wayne. Today these guns are very rare mainly because Hi-Shear had recalled many of them for some unknown reason shortly after production, which leaves an estimate of surviving Omega III guns in circulation to be somewhere around 100 rifles. ![]() So any attempt to find one would surely be accompanied by a very high price tag, especially if one could be proven to have belonged to the likes of John Wayne.Īnyway, back to that perfectly constructed snake-killing tool chambered in.
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