Buckeye Mike: What bullet are You using in the Omega. I can only load that many shots even with Black Mag'3 if I use Powerbelts. Any of the sabot/bullet combinations are so tight in my Omega I can load two or three and then they are impossible to get down the barrel. I know my barrel seems to be the most difficult of any Omega I have heard about. It is a stainless and I have run 200 plus passes with JB bore paste and even after that it still makes loading difficult. Harvester sabots are the only ones that work and then only if I select .451 bullets not .452. I slugged the bore and it is a perfect .500 but the groves are very shallow.