For anyone who might be interested, I went ahead and took the plunge on wednesday and picked up the Black Diamond. I went out thursday and put about thirty five rounds through it. It's a hoot!!!

After fooling around with a couple of different kinds of bullets, I found that the Knight 260 grain Sabots with 100 grains of pyrodex seems to work pretty well with me.

While I was out, I ran into a guy I know who is the local fishing guide. He mentioned that he buys the little plastic sabot things and plain old .45 hollow point bullets, and stuffs them in the barrel with great results...Do any of you guys do that?

On a side note, I am now convinced that a black powder rifle is the dirtiest shooting thing I have ever had occasion to pull the trigger on. I can't wait untill the next time out.<img src=icon_smile_big.gif border=0 align=middle>