I just bought an Indian Creek Black Diamond Strike in .665" that I am going to begin wringing out when I get some decent weather. I’ll be shooting some turkey loads through it for gobbler hunting this spring to compare with my favorite Kick’s Gobblin’ Thunder. And I’ll shoot my favorite predator loads of Remington Wingmaster HD-BB and my old standby Federal Premium No. Four Buck. We‘ll see how she wrings out on the bench. If it doesn‘t shoot as well as I think it should I‘ll contact Indian Creek and do some swapping with some other constrictions and give it a fair chance.
It is beautifully made, very long; it adds another 2" to barrel length. The Integrated Wad Catch Technology is interesting on the interior of the choke. That is a different approach to slowing the wad from the shot. It will be interesting to see how it shoots. It is a thick walled choke and heavy built.
A couple of things I wonder about just from looking at the choke is how hard it is going to be to clean all those long, closely spaced vents when they get clogged with powder residue and plastic wad build up. Probably a good complete soaking in some strong solvent, a bronze brush, and some dental picking the slots? Another possible thing I wonder about is the entire outer surface is finely machine knurled and I can't help but wonder what will happen when all those little sharp edges get dinged up from packing, leaning the gun against trees, ect. When the little tops get the blue knocked off, are they going to become shiny and buggered up? The last thing is this choke can only be hand tightened; there is no place for a wrench or hole for a pin to go through to tweak it snug.
As for constriction of their “Predator” model choke, I’d bet they have the old school mindset of using 00 Buck on coyotes. The Black Diamond Strike is available in any constriction you want, so I don’t see that as much of a problem. I know right now they are slightly backed up for the upcoming turkey season, but if I really like the choke I may contact them after turkey season and bend their ear about predator hunting with shotguns. One ole’ Missouri boy to another and see what experience they have and what their mindset is on the subject.