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A couple years ago a friends Dad bought a Black Diamond XR .50 w/camo stock that was mint looked brand new.. I offered to buy it from him on the spot when I seen it, he said no he didn't want to sell..
That muzzleloader season he killed a big buck with it which I went and dragged out of a huge holler with my 4 wheeler for him. Fast forward to yesterday and his son brings the same gun over for me to look at as his Dad hadn't had it out of gun case since 2 yrs. ago.
Take gun out of case drop light down barrel and cant even see anything as there is tall fuzzy rust down the whole barrel and the 209 primer from when he shot deer was still in primer pocket :cry: , told him gun might be ruined, on top of that breech plug is rusted in solid. Put some Kroil down barrel and left over night and tried taking out again no go so took it out to barn wrapped in heavy leather and put in my vise.. Tried it again with just ratchet/socket and wouldn't budge so put 2 ft. cheater on it and cranked on it and it popped sounded like a rifle going off, after 2-3 more loud pops it finally started turning easy and came out..
I cleaned barrel/degreased then polished with 50 strokes of Montana Bore polish and while you can see rifling good now there's a huge pit toward top of barrel and whole barrel has small pits down one side.. it makes me about sick someone can do this to such a nice muzzleloader, he swears he cleaned it guess he just put the spent primer back in it, primer was even all corroded and green.
This was a exceptionally nice gun, now it may or may not shoot and is worth maybe a third of what it would be if taken care of..
That muzzleloader season he killed a big buck with it which I went and dragged out of a huge holler with my 4 wheeler for him. Fast forward to yesterday and his son brings the same gun over for me to look at as his Dad hadn't had it out of gun case since 2 yrs. ago.
Take gun out of case drop light down barrel and cant even see anything as there is tall fuzzy rust down the whole barrel and the 209 primer from when he shot deer was still in primer pocket :cry: , told him gun might be ruined, on top of that breech plug is rusted in solid. Put some Kroil down barrel and left over night and tried taking out again no go so took it out to barn wrapped in heavy leather and put in my vise.. Tried it again with just ratchet/socket and wouldn't budge so put 2 ft. cheater on it and cranked on it and it popped sounded like a rifle going off, after 2-3 more loud pops it finally started turning easy and came out..
I cleaned barrel/degreased then polished with 50 strokes of Montana Bore polish and while you can see rifling good now there's a huge pit toward top of barrel and whole barrel has small pits down one side.. it makes me about sick someone can do this to such a nice muzzleloader, he swears he cleaned it guess he just put the spent primer back in it, primer was even all corroded and green.
This was a exceptionally nice gun, now it may or may not shoot and is worth maybe a third of what it would be if taken care of..