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To: MarkL
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?

23 posted on 01/16/2012 3:12:38 PM PST by MasterGunner01 (11)
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To: MasterGunner01
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

24 posted on 01/16/2012 4:53:48 PM PST by MarkL (Do I really look like a guy with a plan?)
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