[SaxonPig]

http://www.thehighroad.org/showthread.p ... ost5568306

 

[Doc44]

Neat 44 Magnum. It is always great to have one with a "family" history. Very much like the 1911A1 carried by my father in WWII.

Bill

 

[SaxonPig]

Can't be too many S&W 44 mags that actually went to war. Charles Askins wrote of packing one in the late 1950s during his military travels.

 

[Doc44]

Charles Askins described in a gun magazine years ago how he killed a Viet Cong with a S&W 44 Magnum. He said it was the first enemy killed in RVN with this type of weapon. I know that a Ruger .357 Blackhawk was carried by a marine in the Domican Republic in 1965. I don't know if he shot anyone with it or not.

Bill

 

[SaxonPig]

Seems to me Charlie killed most everyone he met...