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. Good frie nds gather Sliva, J.D . Jones, Te to enjoy shooting: Blackie rr y Murba ch and Jo hn. John’s “Double” Ibex taken with the 6.5 JDJ. It was then I found no one had ever hunted that area with a handgun “ and he was concerned he would be chasing animals all over South Africa. ” sensibly and safely chambered in the Contender or Encore, SSK can and will do it. J.D. will also refuse to do any conversions which are not safe. In addition to factory chamberings J.D. has also designed a long list of JDJ cartridges. In fact J.D has chambered more than 200 cartridges in the T/C Contender. With the arrival of the Encore, new vistas opened up, as this action can be used for cartridges normally found only in bolt guns or the Ruger #1. At the present time SSK has over 300 reamers for chambering custom barrels for the Encore. With that many possibilities in the two T/C actions you can bet we will only cover about 1-percent of what is actually available. Many of the chamberings offered by J.D. are wildcat “JDJ” cartridges of his design. I don’t believe there is anyone alive who knows more about designing cartridges than J.D. Jones. When he speaks anything about firearms or hunting it is a good idea to listen! John’s Favorites I have several dozen JDJ barrels but I mostly go back to my favorite three. My all-time favorite is the 6.5 JDJ. This cartridge is on a blown-out and necked up a .225 Winchester. With a 14" SSK barrel on my Contender I get just under 2,500 fps using the Speer 120-grain SP, and this bullet and load kills all out of proportion to the paper ballistics. I have a lot of animals mounted in my trophy room taken with this handgun, including Mule deer, turkey, whitetail, waterbuck, gemsbok, impala, zebra, mouflon, Catalina goat, Aoudad and exotic sheep such as Corsican, Black Hawaiian and Texas Dall. One of the hardest creatures to hunt with a handgun is the blackbuck, and this 6.5 JDJ has accounted for three of them. J.D.’s first true wildcat big game cartridge was the .375 JDJ, which is based on a necked-down .444 Marlin. Mine is chambered in a 12" SSK Custom Contender barrel. This cartridge is now available chambered in factory T/C barrels and factory ammunition is also available. I was hunting with my good friend Frank Pulkrabek, in Texas, and we were after Ibex. I got up to a 100 yard shooting position with a good rest on a tree, picked out a big goat, put the crosshairs on him, and squeezed the trigger. I lost them in the scope for an instant as the gun recoiled, and when I looked again he was still standing there with the rest of the Ibex. I scolded myself for missing, got back down into position, and this time squeezed the trigger even more carefully. This time I saw him go down and the rest of the Ibex run away. Continued on page 86 An Arrestor Muzzle Brake from SSK adds to the enjoyment of this .308 Encore. WWW.AMERICANHANDGUNNER.COM 41