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HANDGUN HUNTING J. D. JONES ELEPHANT DOWNED BY HAND CANNON WHILE HHI ORGANIZES BOAR HUNT T ast week while standing in brilliant sun L shine at the bottom of a 50-60-foothigh bank in powdery snow a foot deep at about five below zero I looked up just in time to see two does run across the skyline brilliantly silhouetted against a beautiful dark blue sky. They ran through flying powdered snow and their coats glistened brilliantly. I can't remember a more beautiful sight. Those few seconds made years of hunting worthwhile. I hope you see something comparable to it sometime. Deer season's over and via the Shot Show in New Orleans I'm heading for the T/ C IN JDJ caliber will get varmints iust as well as the 'argest of game. Hall Brothers Wilderness Area, Route 4, Box 392, Savannah, Georgia 31405, to meet some friends and check out this 15,000 acre swamp with a bunkhouse, guides and dogs for a possible Handgun Hunters International boar hunt-blast this fall. (HHI, Box .357 Mag, Bloomingdale, OH 43910-$15 annual dues) This year has been a good one for handgunners. Larry Kelly (Mag-Na-Port) using a .375 JDJ SSK Hand Cannon had a fantastic year, killing two elephants and over 35 head of other assorted big game with the .375 JDJ. The cartridge is a full length .444 Marlin necked to .375 caliber. Larry's Hand Cannon is an SSK custom TIC. SSK makes the barrels, scope bases and RCBS makes the dies. The .375 has a little brother, the .358 JDJ and two big brothers, the All and 0430 JDJ cartridges. All are very powerful. Complete guns or barrels are available. The .375 is the most versatile. 44.0 grains ofH-322 give a 270 grain Hornandy spire point 1900 fps, amazing accuracy and killing power. Larry's 300 grain Hornandy FMJ's completely penetrated both elephants' heads. (SSK Ind., Rt. I, Della Drive, Bloomingdale, OH 43910 (614) 264-0176) Jerry Kraft bagged a gigantic moose in Alaska. Horn spread measured 68.5 inches, wet. Not bad for a pistol! Tom Shippy, again with a .375 JDJ dropped an antelope in excess of200 yards as did Gary Geraud with a .30-40 Krag TIC. Delbert Roberts had a spectacular hunt on exotic sheep with a custom S&W .44 Mag. . Certainly not everyone was successfulincluding me. I went to Alaska for 25 days (Continued on page 79) 20 Charter Arms Corporation Fine <strong>American</strong> Handguns 430 Sniffens Lane, Dept. AH-7 Stratford, CT 06497 Made in U.SA One shot to the head bagged trophy for Larry Kelly who used .375 JDJ TIC. JDJ barrel for T/ C is by SSK Industries and is Mag-Na-Ported by Kelly. AMERICAN HANDGUNNER· JULY IAUGUST <strong>1981</strong>
Making a high performance optical system is one thing. Making it last a lifetime is another. Ask Leupold's chief optical engineer to single out the one quality that makes his scopes clearly superior to all others, and you get a very non-optical answer: "It's the way we make them hold together." To prove his point, he'll take you down to the shooting tunnel beneath the Leupold plant, the only place with enough sound insulation to run the impact testing machine shown here. With several scopes firmly clamped in place, the machine slams these fine combinations of beautifully finished lenses and precise mechanical systems through worse torture than produced by the recoil of a .375 H &H magnum. Every new scope design must survive several thousand cycles in the prototype stage to assure that production models will stand up to the same kind of punishment in the field. "The difference," he points out, "is whether the scope will function perfectly after such abuse, or if it will be a tube full of loose parts." Making scopes that won't unravel here, or in the field where terrain, horses and heavy caliber rifles exact their toll, starts by manufacturing every component with a watchmaker's precision. Up to 11 separate lenses for each scope are computer designed, ground and ® LEUPOLD Peiforrnance starts on the inside polished to a near-perfect surface with precisely the right curvature. Each lens is physically checked against a master to make sure its shape conforms exactly to specifications. Those which do not meet the optically-measured tolerances are not used in Leupold scopes. Lenses, adjusting mechanisms and other components must be installed within the scope tube not only to be firmly anchored, but also perfectly aligned to create a flawless optical system. The optical system diagram above, which was used to create the Leupold Vari-X 1113.5x10 scope, was actually drawn by an electronic plotter from the computer program that designed the system. Computers are used by Leupold to achieve optimum design characteristics in each scope, including the desired magnification, the field of view and the eye relief ... the distance from your eye to the metal rim of the eyepiece. This is where Leupold never scrimps, nor has the company ever allowed eye relief ... and the shooter's safety ... to be sacrificed in order to squeeze out more field of view. The quality of the lenses and the design of the optical system combine to produce the optical excellence hunters expect from a Leupold scope. Take a few minutes looking through a Leupold and you'll discover this excellence in light gathering ability, in edgeto-edge sharpness, in flatness of field, in precise resolution and in lack of distortion. With all of that going into each Leupold scope, it's also comforting to know that if your equipment doesn't exactly get pampered out in the woods, and if you shoot thundering loads, everything will hang together hunt after hunt, year after year. For complete specifications 00 Leupold variable and fixed power scopes, send $1.00 for catalog to Leupold, P.O. Box 688, Beaverton, Oregon 97075 U. S.A.
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