I was almost certain that both Clint Eastwood AND Charles Bronson, used a .44 AutoMag in a movie in the 80s. Nope. Just Dirty Harry. Paul Kearsey used a Wildey. I should have remembered that.
Was thinking on the Auto Mag because of a post by Zombie Island.
Both gun were argued to be the most powerful production handgun in the world, at
that time. Which is true, I guess. Just like it was pretty much true
for the Model 29 S&W .44 before them. And after them X-Frame Smiths
would bump the notch up a little higher with their .50. Sorta.
As kids we sure TALKED about the Automag a lot... Like we knew it to be the bees knees. The living end. If I may be allowed to use that slang vernacular from the early 1980s. Aces! I didn't know, then, why everyone didn't want one. Of course as a young head full of pap, I barely considered recoil control, and didn't think at all about size and weight, or mechanical reliability, or cost. And I was also ignorant of the business practices.
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Huh, didn't know that. I don't think I've ever seen one in real life (Automag that is).
Had a friend who carried a .44AutoMag as a deputy sheriff. Said one of it's useful features was that racking it sort of sounded close to a shotgun, without having to haul one of those around when checking doors and alleys in a bad town. (East Palo Alto in the 70's- Old NFO, you might remember that place not far north of Moffett NAS)
Some company's trying to bring them back.
Probably be well north of $3.5K.
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