Click here to download the catalog as a PDF file. To view this site you need Adobe Flash Player and your browser must allow javaScripts. Go here to get the latest Flash Player. THE SIXGUNNER ay — John Long ago and far aw sixgun. shoots a Custom SSK John Taffin The 6.5 JDJ took this African Impala. Taffin’s friend Frank Pulkrabek was shor tly thereafter killed by a drunk driver. SSK’s Super Redhawk with interchangeable barrels. SSK’s I n the late 1970s I saw a small ad for a new organization called Handgun Hunters International, or HHI. I sent off the money and application for membership and in 1979 received the first issue of The Sixgunner which was the club’s bi-monthly publication in newspaper form. In the 1960s I had written my first articles, however I never got paid, so you might say my writing career lagged severely. I started writing for The Sixgunner and that was one of the best things I ever did. G n I k a e r B d n u Gro HHI was headed up by our own J.D. Jones who became a great encourager, telling me I should be writing for the major magazines. I started free-lancing and when Handgunner needed a writer in the mid-1980s for a column called Siluetas, J.D. recommended me and I Guns Favorites: .257 JDJ (225 Winchester), 6.5 JDJ (225 Winchester), .375 JDJ with 220 and 270 grain Hornadys (.444 Marlin). have been here ever since. J.D., who has become a cherished friend, is also SSK Industries. SSK specializes in custom single-shot barrels, first for the Thompson/Center Contender and then for the Encore when it arrived. If a factory cartridge can be 100 yard groups with the SSK custom .44 Magnum Super Redhawk. Shooting results of the SSK .222 JDJ. 40 WWW.AMERICANHANDGUNNER.COM • JULY/AUGUST 2009