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... 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

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".

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

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;

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)

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.

>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;

srothstein wrote: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;

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

joe817 wrote: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

seamusTX wrote: 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;

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

seamusTX wrote:... 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

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

Mike1951 wrote: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.