The Guys from Knight Rifles Shoot the .950 JDJ, Extended Versio

YOUTUBE ^ | Jan 16,2012 | swampsniper

[SWAMPSNIPER]

The guys from Knight Rifles "Americas Muzzleloader" head out to the range with Dave Fricke of Millennium Manufacturing to shoot the largest center fire rifle ever made. Only 12 people have ever shot the .950 JDJ as a rifle. Produced by SSK Industries, only 3 were ever made this was the first and the lightest weighing in at 50 lbs.. 2400 grain bullet and 240 grains of powder.

[WOBBLY BOB]

IIRC, I was some of these at the Winchester Museuem and they were used in the early 1900’s to bring down numerous geese from a flying flock with one shot.

They were mounted on their boats.

[NVDave]

Those are slightly different. Those were called “punt guns” and they were smoothbore - a shotgun for killing a huge number of geese and ducks on the water’s surface. They were outlawed in many states in the east along with market hunting.

The 2-bore and 4-bores I’ve seen have rifled barrels, and they’re intended for use by absolutely daft Englishmen to go after elephants, rhinos, cape buff and the like.

Why anyone spends as much as these guns cost to have a new one today, to USE today... on a hunt in Africa today... is beyond me. But hey, if a guy is paying good money, it is incumbent on someone to fill the need if it is legal to do so.

[MasterGunner01]

The .950 JDJ is certainly an impressive beast. At 50 pounds, the weight alone is note worthy. However, one has to add that with such a large caliber, why was no thought given to providing the gun with an effective recoil compensating SYSTEM? The compensator on the front of the rifle is not particularly effective if one shooter received a broken rib!

The much smaller (38 pound) .55 caliber Boys anti-tank rifle had a separate (and only somewhat effective) recoil damping system along with a muzzle brake. I fail to understand why such a separate recoil absorbing system was not incorporated, in addition to an EFFECTIVE muzzle brake. A compensator like this is not effective and there are many and better designs that could have been used.

All that said, what is the point? Other than producing a huge Ka-Boom! — so what?

[MarkL]

All that said, what is the point? Other than producing a huge Ka-Boom! — so what?

There was a time where I was looking for something bigger and hotter than a 300gr .44Mag from my Super Redhawk, which prompted my call to JD Jones at SSK. I wanted something even bigger, and was looking into a .375JDJ barrel, or maybe a .338 or 45/70 barrel for a TC Contender. I was looking for a serious "Boom Stick," after all, the .375JDJ has taken EVERY large and dangerous animal on the planet (including elephant and cape buffalo... From a handgun!).

I was justifying it to myself with the old joke, "Hey, that elephant gun in my closet really works... Not a single elephant in my back yard."

Thankfully I came to my senses and decided against it. Instead I bought a S&W 625-5 and Ron Power did a terrific action job on it for me.

Mark

[MileHi]

Proof that just because you CAN do something doesn’t mean you SHOULD.

[Frank_2001]

NOT very good for concealed carry, though;)

[Frank_2001]

Why can’t they put silencers on those guns?;)

[NVDave]

I found pictures of a 1880’s 4-bore for you, with pictures of the rifling.

Warning: This link is VERY image-intensive, with many high-res photos.

http://www.hallowellco.com/rodda%204-bore.htm

This level of work is still done today, BTW.

[OKSooner]

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