cayugad
Reference the Black Diamond XR... I have shot hundreds of rounds through mine. It is just hands down, a great shooting rifle. It is also a dirty fowling rifle, but that's all part of the game to me. The only time you need to break them down is if you're sitting on the range and have shot about twenty rounds through the thing.
Cayugad never ment to suggest that the Black Diamond was not a good gun - I know that is is a great shooting gun and it is an excellent hunting rifle. I was trying to say for a beginner the fowling thing might be a henderance of sorts... until you learn to handle the mess it is a problem - in my early days when I was shooting one I felt that way - that is exactly why I sold mine.
I know there are cleaner guns out there - just getting one with a plain old #11 ignition system is getting difficult to find these days.
I am trying hard not to dig the whole anydeeper.