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TC Black Diamond
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<blockquote data-quote="muddly" data-source="post: 640580" data-attributes="member: 46455"><p>The Black Diamond is a fantastic rifle. I have an XR .50 caliber ( blued walnut) with the fiber op front sight and a Savage #10 aperture rear sight. I shoot modest loads with Hornady non mag XTP's with complete success. My deer load is a 250 gr 45 cal XTP in a Harvster crush rib sabot over 70gr of Swiss 3f lit by a musket cap. Muzzle velocity is 1650fps and it thoroughly wrecks a deer. My longest shot to date was last year when i shot a fine doe at 150 yards. My bear load, it would be a fine elk load too, is a 300 gr 45 cal XTP in the crush rib sabots over 90 gr of Swiss 3f, again lit by a musket cap. Muzzle velocity 1600 fps and its EXTREMELY accurate. Btw, zeroed on at 100 you get about 20 inches of drop at 200 with both loads. You're down 8 at 150. Yes the Black Diamonds and all plunger fired inlines are dirty girls. However, by switching to a single port nipple in place of the Flamethrowers, i use Ampcos, icut the breech fouling by 2/3rds and got an additional 100 fps from the same load. I would go to 200 yards with either load, but ONLY if I had a range finder and knew my drops.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="muddly, post: 640580, member: 46455"] The Black Diamond is a fantastic rifle. I have an XR .50 caliber ( blued walnut) with the fiber op front sight and a Savage #10 aperture rear sight. I shoot modest loads with Hornady non mag XTP's with complete success. My deer load is a 250 gr 45 cal XTP in a Harvster crush rib sabot over 70gr of Swiss 3f lit by a musket cap. Muzzle velocity is 1650fps and it thoroughly wrecks a deer. My longest shot to date was last year when i shot a fine doe at 150 yards. My bear load, it would be a fine elk load too, is a 300 gr 45 cal XTP in the crush rib sabots over 90 gr of Swiss 3f, again lit by a musket cap. Muzzle velocity 1600 fps and its EXTREMELY accurate. Btw, zeroed on at 100 you get about 20 inches of drop at 200 with both loads. You're down 8 at 150. Yes the Black Diamonds and all plunger fired inlines are dirty girls. However, by switching to a single port nipple in place of the Flamethrowers, i use Ampcos, icut the breech fouling by 2/3rds and got an additional 100 fps from the same load. I would go to 200 yards with either load, but ONLY if I had a range finder and knew my drops. [/QUOTE]
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