Black Collar Arms Launches the Pork Sword Stalker in 8.6 BLK and 375 Raptor

1. Isn’t TTAG ‘Jeremy S.’ the co-owner Jeremy S. of Black Collar Arms?

   • Yes, I think everyone knows that as I always make it very clear on any article I write in which Black Collar is mentioned (see recent “choose the right bullet for the job” one). I don’t review my own stuff, either. Press releases are their own animal as we copy-and-paste press releases from basically every company in the industry and forwarding a PR thing along is in no way any sort of endorsement or recommendation or whatever.

2. Any intention to offer an integrally suppressed non-SBR?

   • That’s the SBD! 👍 https://blackcollararms.com/product/sbd/

     • Cool, thanks!

3. I’m a big fan of .300 BLK. Really curious about the larger 8.6 BLK and wondering how it stacks up against other larger, established bores for naughty piggies such as .458 SOCOM or .50 Beowulf.

   • Beowulf is limited to handgun bullets, .458 isn’t. I have a Beowulf, but it wouldn’t be my first choice today. Ranier used to make cheap bulk bullets, but no more.

     • Handgun? The Beowulf uses the same bullet as the AE?

       • Yep. .500 handgun bullets.

4. Well, that is different.

5. Thank goodness all my other calibers had stopped killing
   Yawn

6. I love it when the “military-industrial complex” comes up with new and exciting products.
   And yes I’m serious.

7. maybe in creedmore.

   • We do ’em in Creedmoor, just not in this specific Stalker config. But a 12-inch 6.5 CM pistol or SBR or a 16-inch rifle, all with our deep spiral fluted barrels, is absolutely on the table. Jimmy, the owner of Atibal Optics, recently took a gorgeous, massive red stag with a 12-inch Pork Sword SBR in 6.5 CM. They’re fantastic guns and super accurate. Sure, the 375 R would have knocked that stag over, but his perfectly well-placed shot with the CM did the trick just fine.

8. The hell kind of name is “Pork Sword Stalker”? Is it made specifically for shooting people in the dick?

   • , now that was funny 👍

   • Yes, that’s correct. Obviously. 🍆 🔫

     • Since no alternative explanation is readily apparent, I must accept that response at face value.

       I’ll take one in every caliber.

9. Nice…however I can feel the recoil by looking at it.

   • Ehhhh, it’s not bad. 8.6 feels like .308 and 375 R feels like heavy .308. Big solid push. Same amount of gunpowder, heavier bullet. It’s thumpy but much more pleasant than any magnum cartridge. The effect downrange is quite impressive.

10. I like the concept. Stripped down and light weight. Keep the weight near 4 pounds and chamber it in .22 magnum and it would be a dandy little survival gun. Make the stock foldable.

    • Doesn’t KelTec already make something to that effect?

      • If they do I haven’t seen it.

        • The CMR30

          https://www.keltecweapons.com/firearm/rifles/cmr30/

        • That’s interesting. But I doubt we CA peasants will be able to buy one.

          Still, there is Bruen.

    • The stock folds (see second pic). We actually have made Pork Swords in .22 LR and can do .22 WMR, but the weight doesn’t change as it’s still exactly the same size gun with the same size action, etc. There are some cool little .22 WMR survival guns out there! That’s not really the niche for the Pork Sword setup though…we’re geared more toward deer and hog hunting, ranch use, tactical use (LE SWAT, etc), “truck gun” kinda stuff, fun on the shooting range, suppressed shooting. In the correct chamberings though it would be a handy, compact “survival gun.” But if you’re going rimfire I guess I’d go even smaller and even lighter.

11. MAYBE I COULD TALK MY UNCLE N LAW INTO GETN ONE AND WATCH HIMSHOOT IT
    HE’S 55 AN I’M 73 … THANKS FOR INFOR ALWAYS

12. Along time ago people were prudent. They used the tiniest lead projectile and the least amount of powder it took to kill the game they were going after.
    400grains of lead would make a lot of .22LR and a .22LR will kill a pig.
    I’ve not found the .300wthrby to be doing me much more then my 30-06 does.
    More recoil, more powder, and a little more range is about all I’m getting out of it.

    • The 375 Raptor and 8.6BO both use less powder and have less recoil than your .30-06.

    • You tried .35 Whelan? It’s just a necked up 06, but it’s a super effective and mild shooting round. .300 Weatherby wants full power loading’s and a 26″ barrel.

      • .35 looks good, how about .35 if you dont reload? But there we are back at what it takes to do it, a 180gr .35 isnt goin to have the sd a .308 will. .35 really starts to shine in the 200gr’s. More lead.. For instance a 245 grained sabot in a .50 cal BP. Why not shoot a ..45 caliber? Bears, if I’m going after bears I dont want a black powder.

        • When I was young and immortal I decided I wanted to hunt grizzly with a bp rifle. A polar bear was my first choice but can’t hunt them. Now that my immortality has faded, what the hell was I thinking?

        • 9.3 x 62 sounds perfect for you then. That’s usually a 250 at 2400ish. Too bad you don’t reload, because it’s as scarce as hen’s teeth in the States.

    • I recently killed 6 pigs with a .22 LR and let me tell you, it does NOT work equivalently to 375 Raptor. You have to be a cold-hearted nasty murdering bastard to kill hogs with a .22.

      • And your point is?

        • Well, that was a direct response to Possum’s first comment

13. .35 looks good, how about .35 if you dont reload? But there we are back at what it takes to do it, a 180gr .35 isnt goin to have the sd a .308 will. .35 really starts to shine in the 200gr’s. More lead.. For instance a 245 grained sabot in a .50 cal BP. Why not shoot a ..45 caliber? Bears, if I’m going after bears I dont want a black powder.

14. “Black Collar Arms Stock Option

    Folded: 22.8″

    22.8?

    I thought an OAL of at least 26 inches was required for it to not be an unregistered SBR?

    • “Choice of no rear accessory, SB Tactical FS1913 pistol brace, or Black Collar Arms folding Stock Option (factory SBR! All NFA regulations apply and it must transfer to an SOT dealer who will do your ATF Form 4)”

    • Yeah it’s an SBR, but that’s because of the 12-inch barrel not because of the overall length. ATF measures OAL in the gun’s longest configuration, not the shortest, so it’s the stock-extended measurement that would be relevant here for that. Short Barrel Rifle definition is a two-part thing and you have to meet either one: rifle with barrel under 16″ in length *or* max overall firearm length under 26″.

15. “For example, the Pork Sword Stalker in 375 Raptor delivers 270 grain soft point projectiles with sub-MOA accuracy and over 1,000 ft-lbs of retained energy onto targets beyond 550 yards away. All from a 12-inch barrel!”

    Can you release the data and testing on that for this ‘Pork Sword Stalker in 375 Raptor’, please?

    Sounds interesting.

    • Check out http://www.blackcollararms.com/375raptor or http://www.375raptor.com

      That claim is with Speer 270 grain SPBT projectiles at 2,200 FPS, which is a little hotter than what you can expect from factory-loaded ammo with its extra healthy margin for safety built in but can be easily, safely achieved if you load your own. I’m used to the Pork Swords in 375 R being 0.5 to 0.75 MOA guns (five shots, not three). I’m sure the accuracy in 8.6 BLK is going to be extremely good as well. We’re excited to build and offer guns in 8.6 and to get out and do some hunting with it.

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