No problem with the questions....
I was shooting my Black Diamond XR today shooting 80 grains of Triple Se7en and a 460 grain No Excuse 460 grain conical. The accuracy was outstanding to say the least. At 50 yards the six shot group was a little bigger then a quarter.
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The T/C Shockwaves will shoot excellent out of the Black Diamond. Try the 250 and the 300 grain (yellow aero tips). I have the best luck shooting 110 grains of Triple Se7en FFg powder and the 250 grain. Start out using 100 grains and climb in 5 grain amounts until the group starts to open up. Be sure and swab between shots. It will make loading much easier. Also go to
hornady bullets and get an aero tip jag for you ramrod. It will do less damage to the nose of the projectile and give you better accuracy. I am sure there are other sites that sell that jag also. That is where I got mine.
A bullet combination that will really surprise you and is inexpensive to shoot and you can sure hunt with them are T/C Cheapshots. I think they are a 240 grain pure lead bullet with sabot. 100 grains of powder and they are real accurate. They will also clean the clock of a deer from some of the posts I have read. I never shot one with them, but others have.
Hornady 250 & 300 grain XTP's will also shoot good out of the Diamond. In my rifle the best sabots for the Diamond are the T/C mag express. They are the black ones and made for the .451-.452 diameter .45 caliber bullets. Make sure the XTP's you buy are the .451-.452 diameter ones. T/C also sells an XTP and sabot combination that works really good.
The range of the Black Diamond is determined by how far your willing to and able to shoot and place your shot. I have a 1.5 X 4.5 Bushnell Banner Dusk to Dawn Scope on mine, so I would limit my shots to 150 yards and prefer them at 100 yards or less. I have shot to 200 yards, but even though I could hit a white paper plate, I would not call the bullets sprayed over that plate as acceptable. I have only shot that far twice, just to see if I could do it. At 150 yards I could shoot a respectable group good enough to shoot a deer, but again, I do not practice that far, so I would rather not shoot that far.
With open sights, I would limit my shots to around 100 yards. Again, that will be determined by practice. If I put a 3 X 9 X 40 mm scope on the rifle I think the groups would be much better at the longer distances. Even with a 4.5 power, the bull starts to look real small....
Get a good socket extension 9" is the best, and a 9/16th socket and it makes and excellent breech plug wrench. Be sure and grease the threads with some CVA Slick breech plug and nipple grease or something similar. When you screw the plug in, do not crank it tight. Finger tighten only.... I also give it a turn every 5 or 10 shots to make sure it is no seizing up.... Have fun with your new rifle and keep us posted....