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08-29-2012, 12:17 AM
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What's the first thing you think of when I say: Magnum?
above said question.
For me: Colt Python. Reason being, toy guns were plentiful when I was a boy. Particularly cap guns that were revolvers that popped those red plastic moonclips in a steel cylinder. The guns actions usually broke within 2 days of buying it. Usually I had a snub nose .38 or a cowboy gun....but one day in the toystore I got one labeled "Magnum" Not a snub nose barrel, but a longer one with a vented rib and a full underlug under the barrel. Daddy came home from work and I showed him my new gun. He took it in his hand and said "that's a magnum" Something really unique and powerful looking about it. Having said that, if I think a little more historically I think S&W N-frame .357 Magnum with a 6 inch barrel. A long barrel mammoth revolver. The original frame built for the first magnum gun in .357 in 1935. |
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08-29-2012, 12:29 AM
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Re: What's the first thing you think of when I say: Magnum?
.22 WMR i guess i'm just made that way ...
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08-29-2012, 06:33 AM
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Re: What's the first thing you think of when I say: Magnum?
.357, 12 guage shotgun, ice cream
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08-29-2012, 06:33 AM
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Re: What's the first thing you think of when I say: Magnum?
The first thought that popped into my mind was .44 Magnum. The second thought that came to mind was a large bottle of whisky! As Jack said, I guess I'm just made that way!
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08-29-2012, 06:46 AM
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Re: What's the first thing you think of when I say: Magnum?
44 Magnum for me.
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08-29-2012, 07:40 AM
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Re: What's the first thing you think of when I say: Magnum?
Tom Selleck ?
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08-29-2012, 08:14 AM
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Re: What's the first thing you think of when I say: Magnum?
Yeah, Tom Selleck.
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08-29-2012, 08:19 AM
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Re: What's the first thing you think of when I say: Magnum?
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08-29-2012, 08:31 AM
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Re: What's the first thing you think of when I say: Magnum?
A Dodge...followed by .44.
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08-29-2012, 08:34 AM
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Re: What's the first thing you think of when I say: Magnum?
1969 Dodge Charger with 383 Magnum power plant. Sorry, I was a car guy before becoming a gun guy LOL
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08-29-2012, 08:34 AM
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Re: What's the first thing you think of when I say: Magnum?
The .357 and Patton. Then the wine bottle.
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08-29-2012, 08:54 AM
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Re: What's the first thing you think of when I say: Magnum?
My sweet Remington Model 700 BDL in 7mm Rem Mag. I love that rifle and it loves me right back.
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08-29-2012, 09:14 AM
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Re: What's the first thing you think of when I say: Magnum?
.44 and .357
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08-29-2012, 12:25 PM
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Re: What's the first thing you think of when I say: Magnum?
.338 Lapua Magnum and .44 magnum
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08-29-2012, 01:16 PM
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Re: What's the first thing you think of when I say: Magnum?
Don't you also love how the non-gun industry describes "Magnum" as it relates to firearms as though it's one thing? Like the toy company in my original post.
Like in this trailer http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RrJupVEG2Ks "they always use a magnum" Or in the 1999 movie "Payback" Mel Gibson walks into a pawn shop and says "How much for that magnum?" (throughout the movie the gun switches from a M-29 to a M-28) http://www.imfdb.org/w/Payback#Smith...esson_Model_29 Last edited by Doug.38PR; 08-29-2012 at 01:17 PM.. |
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08-29-2012, 02:05 PM
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Re: What's the first thing you think of when I say: Magnum?
Dirty Harry
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08-29-2012, 02:42 PM
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Re: What's the first thing you think of when I say: Magnum?
44 & 357 and then Magnum PI
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08-29-2012, 02:55 PM
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Re: What's the first thing you think of when I say: Magnum?
^ Always thought he should have carried a .357 Magnum because of his last name instead of a .45 1911
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08-29-2012, 03:16 PM
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Re: What's the first thing you think of when I say: Magnum?
Smith and Wesson Registered Magnum
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08-29-2012, 03:54 PM
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Re: What's the first thing you think of when I say: Magnum?
Python. Love my 4" Python.
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08-29-2012, 04:37 PM
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Re: What's the first thing you think of when I say: Magnum?
S&W Model 19 Combat Magnum
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08-29-2012, 05:13 PM
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Re: What's the first thing you think of when I say: Magnum?
My brand of condoms
But seriously 44 mag
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08-29-2012, 05:37 PM
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Re: What's the first thing you think of when I say: Magnum?
.357 and the Ruger I bought in 1966. Wish I still had it...........
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08-29-2012, 06:10 PM
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Re: What's the first thing you think of when I say: Magnum?
P.I.
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08-29-2012, 06:13 PM
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Re: What's the first thing you think of when I say: Magnum?
S&W m-29 44 mag then 357mag then 338 win mag
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