New Automag pistols are back!

LOCKHART · Jun 16, 2018

Saw this on Smith & Wesson forum. They are supposed to be shipping them this year. The only caliber will be .44 AMP at first, and only two barrel lengths, 6.5" & 8.5". The prices are $3795 for the shorter barrel, $3995 for longer barrel. Funny, I paid $375.00 in 1974 for my 8.5" .357 Automag! Google "newautomag" and will bring up all info.

oldag · Jun 16, 2018

Do you still have it?

Pics?

AustinN4 · Jun 16, 2018

https://www.americanrifleman.org/articles/2018/1/31/shot-show-2018-auto-mag-44-amp-pistol/

https://www.automag.com/faqs-about-the-new-auto-mag/

http://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/2018/01/30/auto-mag-now-shipping-44-pistols/

LOCKHART · Jun 16, 2018

Olddag, I don't. Like a fool I traded it for a model 29. I don't have that anymore either. My cousin and I got into business selling Automags and the ammo for them. Man, we couldn't GIVE those damn things away. We kept two for ourselves, and sold the rest at a modest profit. Used ones going for 2500.00 and UP at gun shows now.

benenglish · Jun 16, 2018

The older I get the fewer "holy grail of my youth" guns I seek. I've been lucky enough to find a couple but the list gets shorter every year. I just don't have enough life left to enjoy all the things I've ever wanted even if they were simply given to me.

An Automag remains on my list.

Moonpie · Jun 16, 2018

An elegant weapon for a more civilized age.

LOCKHART · Jun 16, 2018

And if you had one that could fire five rounds in a row, without jamming, you had a GOOD one! LOL!

oldag · Jun 16, 2018

Always wanted an Automag in .44.

Had heard that some of them had reliability issues, though.

LOCKHART · Jun 16, 2018

Yeah, and the .44's had a bad habit of breaking one or both of the ears off the rear of the bolt. The gun would still work with only one ear, but once both were broke, it was new bolt time. The bolt would no longer rotate to lock and unlock.

benenglish · Jun 16, 2018

The press releases say that the new company has made changes to address some of the reliability problems of the originals.

Thanks to modern technology and materials, the new Auto Mag will have the look and feel of the original while resolving the mechanical issues that plagued some of the earlier models.

Anybody have any idea what they might have done? Anybody seen any reports on whether those changes fixed everything?

I don't imagine any have been out long enough to be sufficiently tested but I thought I'd ask.

grasshopperglock · Jun 16, 2018

I thought this was an automag,

Moonpie · Jun 16, 2018

grasshopperglock said:
I thought this was an automag,

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Nope. It's a Wildey. They still make them I believe.

ZX9RCAM · Jun 16, 2018

grasshopperglock said:
I thought this was an automag,

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I thought it was too, I remembered Wildey, had to Google for specifics.

.475 Wildey Magnum

LOCKHART · Jun 16, 2018

Wildeys went away for awhile, too. They are also available in .45 Win mag.

Nietzsche · Jun 22, 2018

Nice, hopefully someone will bring the LAR Grizzly back too.

Moonpie · Jun 22, 2018

Cool looking piece.
Shame they’re so pricey.
Want but can’t.

LOCKHART · Jun 22, 2018

I had a Grizzly back in '93, and it was very accurate. I don't know why the .45 Winmag never caught on, it will do everything the .44 mag will, and more.

grasshopperglock · Jun 22, 2018

The iconic Dirty Hairy scene with the model 29. Was one hell of a commercial. It's wasn't hard to find someone that'd say it'd stop a car. It'll go through an engine block. Let's not forget Road Warrior. The masked guy with a 29 in a case. He shot the radiator, lol.

Death Wish had a different perspective of his handgun. Until this thread. I didn't know what it was. I would have money down its was an Automag.

I knew about the 454 casull from 'The Marlboro Man'. The guy on the Japanese motorcycle, wore boots. I can remember the shootout where they were in an airplane graveyard.

I've watched all the Death Wish movies. Way more then once. No clue to what that big shiny pistol with a Ruger looking barrel was. The design never appealed to me. It looks like they stuck a revolver barrel on a 1911 and called it a day.

benenglish · Jun 22, 2018

grasshopperglock said:
No clue to what that big shiny pistol with a Ruger looking barrel was.

Didn't he call it "Mr. Wildey" while he was waiting for it to arrive in the mail?

grasshopperglock · Jun 22, 2018

benenglish said:
Didn't he call it "Mr. Wildey" while he was waiting for it to arrive in the mail?

I don't remember mail. I vaguely remember him pulling it out a rather cheap box. White box with a flip cover(?)

New Automag pistols are back!

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