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title: "This 950-Caliber Rifle Kicks Like A Beast"
date: "2016-10-28"
modified: "2016-10-28"
authors:
  - name: "James Clark"
    job_title: "Editor-in-Chief"
    link: "https://taskandpurpose.com/authors/james-clark/"
url: "https://taskandpurpose.com/tech-tactics/950-caliber-rifle-will-destroy-anything-especially-shoulder/"
categories:
  - "Analysis"
  - "Guns"
  - "News"
  - "Tech & Tactics"
  - "Weapons"
---

# This 950-Caliber Rifle Kicks Like A Beast

![](<https://taskandpurpose.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/19037751-1.png>)

Depending on what you’re shooting, there’s always a little bit of recoil, sometimes it’s hardly noticeable, like the AR-15 — unless you’re a journalist with the New York Daily News. On the other hand, a rifle like .950 JDJ, has a kick that leaves a lasting impression and probably a bruise the size of a dinner plate.

The largest caliber rifle ever built, this rifle — no, let’s be honest, it’s a cannon — fires a .950-caliber round that is nearly an inch wide and four inches long. The rifle was tested out by the guys at [Knight Rifles](<https://www.knightrifles.com/>), who had the foresight to film it for posterity. The recoil is so intense that one of the shooters in the video likens it to firing 10 .30-06 rounds at one time.

Based on the reactions in the video, it’s more like trying to ride a mule while firing 10 .30-06s. Every time the gun goes off, it practically leaps off the table as the shooter struggles to hold on.

The .950 JDJ is one of three such guns made by [SSK industries](<https://sskindustries.com/>), and the one in the video is the lightest, weighing in at 50 pounds. The custom-made bullets are propelled by 240 grains of powder and cost about $40 a piece.

When fired, the round has a kinetic force comparable to a World War I-era tank or 20mm cannon round, according to [International Science Times.](<https://www.isciencetimes.com/articles/5786/20130802/largest-caliber-rifle-ssk-950-jdj-rounds.htm>) Seriously, this thing is so powerful that it was almost classified as a “destructive device,” but a special “sportsman exception” was made for the rifle.

Watch the full video and see for yourself.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xohy9gWz7kk

## Author
James Clark is the editor-in-chief of Task & Purpose. He is a former Marine and a veteran of the War in Afghanistan.

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