Wildey Firearms - rare pistol that you never heard of

[seamusTX]

... at least I hadn't.

This pistol is currently for sale on Auction Arms.

This is an unusual gas-operated target pistol that shoots uncommon calibers: http://www.wildeyguns.com/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

- Jim

[joe817]

I can honestly say I've never heard of the gun. And in .44 Mag to boot?? Interchangeable barrels?

A novelty to be sure for the "Manor Born".

[seamusTX]

This does seem to be in the "if you have to ask you can't afford it" category. My quick search for .44 auto mag ammunition revealed that it costs about $2 per round [sic].

But the auction is only up to $700-something with 21 bids.

- Jim

[Mike1951]

Charles Bronson used the same pistol in .475 Wildey in Death Wist 3.

http://www.imdb.com/media/rm1875287296/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[joe817]

THAT'S where I've seen it! Thanks Mike1951!

A collector's item to be sure......even if it was made last week!

P.S. Jim.....that's an awfully good deal if it sells for that. That would make a good investment, IMO. (I'm serious)

[srothstein]

Didn't Clint Eastwood also use one in one of the Dirty Harry movies? I remember it being a .44 Auto mag but not which pistol it was.

[ghostrider]

>Didn't Clint Eastwood also use one in one of the Dirty Harry movies? I remember it being a .44 Auto mag but
>not which pistol it was.

The movie was 'Sudden Impact'; the gun was a .44Auto Mag from the AutoMag corp:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sudden_Impact_%28film%29" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AutoMag_%28pistol%29" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[Mike1951]

Didn't Clint Eastwood also use one in one of the Dirty Harry movies? I remember it being a .44 Auto mag but not which pistol it was.

Info on Sudden Impact gun here:

http://www.imfdb.org/index.php?title=Su ... to_Mag_280" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[srothstein]

Thanks. It wasn't a Wildey, but still a sweet pistol.

[seamusTX]

P.S. Jim.....that's an awfully good deal if it sells for that. That would make a good investment, IMO. (I'm serious)

Something about that auction bothers me.

Expensive items on auction sites usually have a hidden reserve or a high starting bid (established by the seller). This one started at $0.01 and was bid up to $778 in two days. There has been no further activity in five days.

Usually the market is quick to find a price for items on open auctions.

I don't collect things. It's just not an area that I'm interested in.

- Jim

[joe817]

Something about that auction bothers me.

Expensive items on auction sites usually have a hidden reserve or a high starting bid (established by the seller). This one started at $0.01 and was bid up to $778 in two days. There has been no further activity in five days.

Usually the market is quick to find a price for items on open auctions. I don't collect things. It's just not an area that I'm interested in. - Jim

That's really not unusual for a desirable gun to be bid on like that. The bidding war will really start in the last hours or minutes of the auction. Typically, there's a rush to bid on it when it first comes on, then bidding slows down or stops all together. Then when nearing the end, a bidding frenzy happens.

I have no idea why it's a penny auction. I see it's a re-listed item. The other buyer backed out of the deal.

As far a auctionarms goes, I trust it more than any other auction website, as it's the official auction website of the NRA.

http://www.auctionarms.com/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[seamusTX]

Auction Arms is fine, and most sellers have better than 99% positive feedback. However, most items get no bids or the reserve isn't met.

You may be right about the bidding war near the end. I tried to buy a pistol there last year. I placed the highest bid about 20 minutes before the auction ended. The price was bid up to a ridiculous level by the time the auction ended.

- Jim

[G.C.Montgomery]

... at least I hadn't.

This pistol is currently for sale on Auction Arms.

Wildey.jpg

This is an unusual gas-operated target pistol that shoots uncommon calibers: http://www.wildeyguns.com/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

- Jim

I remember that gun from one of the old Charles Bronson "Death Wish" movies of the 80s. I was only nine or ten years old when I saw that movie on TV but, the gun stuck in my mind and I swore when I got old enough, I'd buy one. Actually, the one in that movie was a .475 Wildey Magnum, or at least they said it was. Well, 10 years later I sure enough found a genuine 475 Wildey Magnum with a 10-inch barrel. The owner gave me about 300 pieces of converted .284 rifle brass and a bunch of 275grain solids. He also had about 50 rounds made up for it. But I only needed 1 round to decide that if there was anything that needed to be shot with a bullet that big, that I could use a rifle or beat feet to my truck and run. I sold that pistol at the very next gun show for what I had in it and I don't miss it one bit.

GM

[chabouk]

Some of the most successful sellers use only penny auctions with no reserve. Reserves and minimum starting bids turn off prospective buyers.

[Charles L. Cotton]

Charles Bronson used the same pistol in .475 Wildey in Death Wist 3.

http://www.imdb.com/media/rm1875287296/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Well, there are at least two of us old enough to know this.

Chas.