The .44 JAG

[awp_101]

Here's a blast from the past for @Mas!

I was looking for information on some Volquartsen pistols a couple of weeks ago, and the Sept/Oct 1989 issue of American Handgunner popped in my searches. The Volquartsen article didn't have the information I was looking for, but it DID have this neat article about a certain Model 29 that was reworked to use a .44 caliber round based on cut down .308 cases. The idea was to have a rimless .44 loaded hot enough for bowling pin work and reloaded using moon clips instead of speed loaders.

Scroll down to page 48 for the start of the article and then follow the jumps through the magazine in the quaint, yet ever so annoying, style of print magazines. And the ads. Don't skip through those glorious ads of yesteryear!

The .44 JAG

[fatdog]

Radar detectors and our inane national 55 mph speed limit...sometimes I forget.

[Guerrero]

"Ayoob suggests S&W 4506 as best auto to replace revolver"

Love the blast from the past, especially the ads.

[LittleLebowski]

Anyone catch that letter to the editor bitching about the military adoption of the 9mm?

[Stephanie B]

Anyone catch that letter to the editor bitching about the military adoption of the 9mm?

Nah. I long ago learned to not read letters to the editor in gun magazines.

RMOAS: a long time ago, Guns & Ammo began putting in metric equivalents of cartridge data. I wrote them and suggested that, for commonly-known cartridges, that it would be better to just use the English designation. The editor wrote me a very nice letter, said that's what they were going to do, and also remarked that it was really nice to receive a letter that didn't accuse them of participating in a Commie plot.

[Caballoflaco]

Now I’m jonesing for a .38 super Commander with a carry comp.

[JAD]

Now I’m jonesing for a .38 super Commander with a carry comp.

You mean, before, you weren't?

[LittleLebowski]

You mean, before, you weren't?

Shall we burn the heretic?

[awp_101]

[Crazy Dane]

I remember that issue very well. It was the first publication I received after getting out of boot camp. By the time my AIT DS got it to me it was well worn.