Semi auto Magnum pistols

[CLASSIC12]

Classic12,
As always you have some very nice hardware to share with the crowd

My only two AutoMags were a 44AMP and a 357AMP. Both of which got sold during a family cash crisis.

I have had several Desert Eagles, all of them have been outstandingly accurate and all of mine have been reliable. The important thing is FULL Power loads. I only fed mine full charges of H110 under the heavier projectiles.

The two that I still own are chambered in 50AE and 41 Magnum. The 50 I have always loaded with the IMI 300 JHP projectile. I probably have a couple of thousand of those still on hand. The 41 Magnum was never sensitive to projectile weight. 170s, 200s, 250s it did not matter as long a it was a FULL Power load.

And as I am sure you and ever other DE owner knows . . . . No cast bullets in the DE

I am also fond of the LAR Grizzly pistols. I have several of the caliber conversions for mine. Probably the most used is the 5 1/2" 357 Magnum.

Grizzly had their own wildcat the 357/45 Grizzly Winchester Magnum. It was a 45 Win Mag necked down for a 357 projectile. It is a screamer. I have a barrel for each of my Grizzlies

I was very fortunate to have met the Grizzly designer, the late Perry Arnett, back when I was shooting more. Turns out he lived about 30 minutes south of me. He got me interested in the Grizzly 10 1/2" Long Slide.

As I understand it 200 Long Slides were manufactured with 20 of them being in the hard chrome finish.

As a lover of Big Bore Magnum Auto Loaders, it is hard not to love Wildey Moore's pistol. It just has such great lines, or is it just a Charles Bronson thing?

I bought my first Wildey in 45 Winchester Magnum since I already loaded it for the Grizzly.

However, I eventually broke down and purchased a second one in 475 Wildey Magnum.

Thanks for posting, nice guns, I like anything with a vented rib, Python, Diamondback, Dan Wesson, and of course AutoMag and Wildey

 

[CLASSIC12]

Here’s my small collection of Magnum autos. The Coonan is an A model. Mine is SN 13XX. From what I’ve read, they started SN at 1000. The Wildey is a little rare as it is chambered in 45 Wildey Magnum, which is a 475 Wildey necked down to 45. I had always wanted 44 automag but the prices of them always seemed to outpace my budget. I also have a 45 Winchester Mag upper assembly for it so I can shoot that also with the same frame.
The third one is a Automag III which isn’t technically a Magnum but from the barrel blast you wouldn’t know it.

Nice, thanks for posting, the AutoMag III is in .30 Carbine ?

 

[colt_saa]

Thanks for posting, nice guns, I like anything with a vented rib, Python, Diamondback, Dan Wesson, and of course AutoMag and Wildey

I share that affinity for vent rib handguns.

Dan Wesson series of revolvers? Well I do have a few of those on hand

I always liked the SuperMags. Those big cylinders are nice and strong

OK, it is not as big a Vent Rib as a Auto Mag, but it still is a Vent Rib revolver

Are Dan Wesson easy to find over there? I would think that such a small company would not have a strong presence outside of the US

 

[CLASSIC12]

Beautiful, so you are the power freak

Strangely enough I’ve seen a fair amount of them for sale. Always been tempted by a set with the four barrels, a good friend and shooting compagnon had one in .357, but the rascal sold it without telling me though.

 

[CLASSIC12]

I remembered I have two videos shooting the Auto Mag, that would be me

YouTube

And the gunsmith trying it out

YouTube

 

[BEEMER1]

Here is a 3 gun set of Jurras Custom 100 Auto Mags all serial numbered LEJ-28. They are chambered in 44 AMP, 41 JMP, and 357 AMP. All came cased in the brown Gun-Ho cases circa 1975. All appear to be unfired.

 

[BEEMER1]

Somewhere in the desert at dusk.

 

[koz5614]

I’m surprised no one has mentioned the short-lived .451 Detonics Magnum. I’ve wanted one ever since I read about it in a 1983 issue of G&A.

 

[kmyers]

We have two that fit the description here.

One of my favorite pistols. An old Springfield Armory in .357 SIG.

M&P .40 but with a .357 SIG conversion barrel.

 

[Echo40]

The closest I'll likely ever get to a semiautomatic magnum pistol would be .357 SIG or 10mm Auto.

Well, here we are one year later, and in an unexpected twist of fate, I did end up with a magnum pistol...Sort of...

It's not a .357 SIG, nor is it a 10mm Auto, but it is capable of shooting a cartridge which lands somewhere in between.

It's an Heckler & Koch USP45 Elite, chambered for .45 ACP, but designed to shoot the very hottest of loads, and so massively over-engineered that it is capable of shooting .45 Super or the slightly hotter .450 SMC sans modifications.

I bought it mainly to shoot .45 ACP, but the fact that it can shoot .45 Super is a cool little feature, and since .45 Super isn't in particularly high demand, I was able to purchase a few boxes of ammo for it.

In terms of muzzle energy, .45 Super lands somewhere between .357 SIG and 10mm Auto, launching a 230gr bullet at about 1100fps with a total muzzle energy of just over 600ft-lbs out of a 5" Barrel. Lighter 185gr loads fall just short of 10mm Auto at about 685ft-lbs.
.450 SMC (Short Magnum Cartridge) is loaded a bit hotter than .45 Super and is roughly on par with 10mm Auto.

Granted that neither .45 Super nor .450 SMC really measure up to something like .44 AMC or .45 WinMag, but it's hot enough for just about any use I could ever conceivably have for it, and with a polymer frame with an overall weight of just under 34oz, anything more would likely be brutal.
However, should I ever go completely insane, then they do offer .460 Rowland coversions for the H&K USP45.

Anyway, I know I'm sort of necro-bumping this year-old thread, but lately I've been reading about Magnum Pistols online and this old thread came up, and I decided to update it since I actually did end up getting something that at least approaches the lower end of Magnum Pistol performance.

 

[Bullet Bob]

You can call anything a magnum, there's no hard and fast rule, it's subjective. The .357 Sig and 10mm will never be magnums to me, but obviously they are to somebody. Who will no doubt quote fps, energy, etc. to justify their opinion.

They'll be arguaing with themselves, I'm outa here.

 

[Model52guy]

Nice, thanks for posting, the AutoMag III is in .30 Carbine ?

Yup 30 carbine. Sounds like a 12 ga shotgun when shot.

 

[Ματθιας]

I have an early, 1980s, DE in .357mag. It's been pretty reliable. I had problems but it was traced to one bad mag. As big, heavy and with that rotating bolt, it's like shooting a .22! Almost.