44” Magnum round, but with less recoil and a larger ammunition capacity than the Smith & Wesson revolvers for which the round was originally designed. Sanford wanted to produce a semi-automatic pistol which was capable of shooting the powerful. The idea which became the Auto Mag pistol came from Harry Sanford, a US businessman, in the late 1960s. But it’s worth seeking one out if you can – if you have any interest in handguns and replicas, I defy you to pick one of these up and not have a smile on your face. Just like the original, production of this replica was brief and you can now find these only on the used market. So, it’s perhaps surprising that in 2003 Japanese company Marushin introduced a gas powered, blowback replica of the Auto Mag. The production history of the real steel Auto Mag was relatively brief and these exist now only as historical oddities and collector’s items. My hair was way longer than that in the 70s. 44 Magnum revolver with a little less recoil, but generally, the only time you’ll see a gun this big is when it’s fitted with wheels and being towed behind a team of horses. It was bigger and more powerful than just about any other semi-automatic handgun before or since. In many ways the Auto Mag pistol typifies the excess of the 1970s. Big hair, big cars, big movies and really, really big guns. There are big guns, there are stupidly big guns and then there’s the Auto Mag, for people who think the Desert Eagle is a compact pistol.Īh, the 70s.
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