A friend of mine just bought a SS thumbhole Omega 50. We have shot it a few weekends now. This thing seems to shoot just about anything he puts through it. Mostly using 100 gr 777 and while you can tell the crud ring is there it is not bad at all (compared to my Encore which was BAD). The interesting thing that we found out this weekend is that the new Harvestor Crush Rib Sabots work great. Much easier to load and still hit in the same group with the MMP sabots. He shot some 300 gr XTPs with these sabots yesterday and it was just over 1"! He uses CCI primers and has a Holosight mounted on her. I may just have to trade the Encore for one of these things???