Tom, why DID you call it an "Automag"

[Clockwork_Orange]

LOL...what happened to step 2?

[Webmaster]

Emag - yes - it was called the colonial - it was a blatent clone. AGD started packing VL 2000s with thier guns and under cut the guy.

[Ukraineboy]

You DON'T want to know what step 2 was...
Step 2 ALWAYS comes after "Giving up Underpants"
Sadly, those Gnomes could never sit down on a chair again....

[No sKiLLz]

Originally posted by Ukraineboy
You DON'T want to know what step 2 was...
Step 2 ALWAYS comes after "Giving up Underpants"
Sadly, those Gnomes could never sit down on a chair again....

Oh HELL no! GROSS!!!

(If the gnomes were the ones doing the bestowing, shouldn't TK have been the one to grab his ankles?)

[Star_Base_CGI]

auTOMag

[Clockwork_Orange]

LOL!

[Lakeview Bulldog]

I wonder if there are any of those Colonials floating around out there. That would be a cool collectors piece.

[robertjuric]

yall have got the movie name wrong, he did get it from a movie, and in that movie they called it an automag, but dirty harry didnt shoot an automag, he shot just a regular mag. I asked this question a while back, and someone posted the right movie, Ill try to find it.

[robertjuric]

found it:

http://www.automags.org/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=89899&highlight=automag

coupla quotes from my above thread for the lazies out there:

Originally posted by robertjuric
Hmmm, I remeber that movie, but I thought he just shot a .44 Magnum, I was just kind of wondering about the Auto. My dad who also loves Dirty Harry, said it was a .44 Magnum.

Not that Im argueing, if thats where they said they got the name, then aparently, thats where they got the name.

Originally posted by Muzikman
There are .44 Automags...the movie Tom was refering to is Sudden Impact. He used a .44 Magnum Automag.

Originally posted by rx2
I do believe that whilst it was called a .44 Magnum, the gun that was used in the movie was actually a model 57 .41 Magnum. The difference in appearance is slight, but as someone who owns several different Magnum handguns, it is a bit more noticeable when firing.

The Automag was used in Sudden Impact, as mentioned. It is referred to as the "Automag" when Harry is taking some target practice. It was a semi-automatic pistol, with an appearance much like a Luger, and yes, very similar to an AGD Automag, especially when equipped with a SS barrel.

[Jerhew]

Originally posted by robertjuric
yall have got the movie name wrong, he did get it from a movie, and in that movie they called it an automag, but dirty harry didnt shoot an automag, he shot just a regular mag. I asked this question a while back, and someone posted the right movie, Ill try to find it.

eh?
no sir you're incorrect
it was a dirty harry movie
not the first one...
maybe the second...i can't remember

and yes it was exactly like the automag pictured in this thread already
except that in actuality it wasn't an automag at all...
it was a custom copy of it...there were two made for the movie
i'll try to dig up the last thread on this...
it's better expained there

[robertjuric]

quote:
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Originally posted by Muzikman
There are .44 Automags...the movie Tom was refering to is Sudden Impact. He used a .44 Magnum Automag.
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http://www.automags.org/forums/show...ghlight=automag

took me to long to edit my last post.

[Jerhew]

here http://www.automags.org/forums/showt...threadid=68736

if you read through this thread
army posts some good history on the gun
(and corrects some misconceptions i had too )
the movie was sudden impact...which was a dirty harry movie

[HOMOCIDAL2]

my 2 cents

ARMY covers the subject extremely well. I just wanted to add that the 44 Automag is by no means a small handgun. The .44 rem mag, is no where near the most powerful "handgun" in the world. There are many manufacturers who take rifle cartridges and build handguns around them. The .308 win. in my opinion makes a very powerful "handgun". Not to mention the many offerings from the Thompson Center Contender. One of my personal favorites was the .357 harret, where they took a 3030 and necked it up to a .357. You want to talk about "power".
One more thing, in the same way that a .38 spec is not 38 cal, the 50AE is not a 50 cal. It is against federal law for anybody to manf. any handgun bigger than .49. How they came up with those figures, who knows?

[robertjuric]

ahhh, so we both are right. It was sudden impact, like I said, and it was also a diry harry movie. Or was it really a dirty harry movie, or a Clint Eastwood movie(like was it a different character, just same actor?)?

[Jerhew]

yep
no it definitely was an actual dirty harry movie...
he was given the gun after saving someone's life or something like that...

oh and
chuff chuff