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The .44 Automag pistol was originally created in the late 1960s by the Pasadena Corporation in an attempt to bring .44 Magnum ballistics to an automatic pistol design. It was the first semi-automatic magnum production gun and was the first all-stainless production gun. The Auto Mag concept also gave birth to two new cartridges: the .44 Auto Mag (.44 AMP) and .357 Auto Mag (.357 AMP). The .44 AMP cartridge was a rimless, straight wall case was formed by reducing the length of the .308 Winchester case (or any other member of the .30-06 family) to 1.30 inches. The .44 Auto Mag was designed to shoot .429 inch bullets at about the same velocity as the .44 Magnum. The . ...
The genesis of the Auto Mag, however, was not without its problems. In 1971, Auto Mag developer Harry Sanford opened a factory-Auto Mag Corp.-in Pasadena, California. Guns were made in both .44 AMP and .357 AMP, and changing calibers required only the additional barrel and cartridges. The same frame, magazine and bolt could be used on both. Unfortunately, after producing about 3,300 pistols, AMC went bankrupt. Trust Deed Estates then took over and set up in North Hollywood, California, later moving to El Monte, California. During this time, High Standard had a number of Auto Mags made with its name on the guns. Also, Lee Jurras, of Super Vel ammunition fame, commissioned Auto Mags to be custom-made to his specifications. Later, Ordnance Manufacturing Corp. joined TDE and produced a few more guns and, finally, Arcadia Machine and Tool became the final resting place for the Auto Mag. From 1971 to 1982, about 9,500 Auto Mags were made by different manufacturers and in different variations. ImageMetadata File history File links Download high resolution version (1024x822, 89 KB) thehighroad File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ...
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 Dirty Harry with .44 Auto Mag The Auto Mag was showcased in the fourth Clint Eastwood Dirty Harry movie Sudden Impact. Which was famous for the line "...make my day". Image File history File links Suddenimp. ...
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Dirty Harry is a 1971 film directed by Don Siegel and starring Clint Eastwood as Harry Callahan, a San Francisco detective tracking Scorpio, a serial killer. ...
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