NEW! - Jeffersonian

Designed for big game
hunting and long-range target
shooti ng, it's equipped with a
14-inch barrel and 2X scope.
By Len Davis
Amagnificent handgun for big game
hunting and long-range target shooting
has been produced by SSK Industries
of Bloomingdale, Ohio.
It's a customized TIC Contender in
.45-70 Government caliber, complete with
a rust-resistant 14-inch barrel and the new
Leopold & Stevens anodized aluminum
2X scope.
The gun is finished in SSK Khrome
loads-is capable of producing Ph inch
groups at 100 yards.
He said SSK makes the customized
handgun in 60 calibers, ranging from .14
through .58.
"The most popular caliber;' he added,
"is the .45-70 Govemment, followed by
the .375 JDJ (for J.D. Jones), a.444 Marlin
necked-down to .375. caliber?'
(a hard chrome with a Rockwell hardness EASILY HANDLED
of 72-73/C-scale) and has handsome Jones explained that the recoil, with a
Pachmayr neophrene grips and fore-end. scoped gun that has been Mag-na-Ported
On it, SSK has installed its full-length, or equipped with an SSK muzzle brake,
vent rib scope mount base and three rings and firing 400-grain bullets developing
to hold the scope firmly under the heaviest velocities in excess of1,600 feet per second,
recoil.
can easily be handled by any shooter "who
SSK produced the 14-inch barrel from a has hands large enough to go around the
blank made by the McGowen compaIJY of grips?'
St. Anne, Illinois. Its 1-14 inch twist pro- The anodized aluminum scope, with exduces
maximum stabilization of 500-grain tended eye relief, is 8.1 inches long and
jacketed bullets, for example, up to a range weighs just under seven ounces, making it
of ab.out 200 yards, according to J.D. one of the shortest and lightest handgun
Jones, SSK president.
scopes on the market.
Jones told the American Handgunner Equipped with the Duplex reticle, the
that the gun-with big bore hunting scope makes sighting simple, quick and
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precise-even in low light conditions,
according to a Leopold spokesman. Optimum
eye relief is 12-14 inches.
Except for color, it is identical to the
Leopold standard 2X extended eye relief
scope.
In extolling the virtues ofthis big handgun,
Jones said he killed a caribou in
Alaska in 1979 with one like it, at 150 yards,
using a 4oo-grain jacketed Speer bullet.
"He was running hard and it took two
shots to down him;' said Jones, who noted
that when the two slugs were removed
from the animal and measured they miked
.88 and .92, and each weighed 385 grains.
"How's that for expansion and weight
retention!"
For more information on Jones'
customizing work, write to him at SSK
Industries, Rt. I (Box AH), Della Drive,
Bloomingdale, OH 43910. His telephone
number (unlisted) is (614) 264-0176.
If you want to know more about the
scope, write Leopold & Stevens, Inc., POB
688 (Dept. AH), Beaverton,
OR 97075.
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