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In response to Million Dollar Baby, a disability rights group criticized Eastwood for having a vendetta against the disabled. Eastwood responded: I've gone around in movies blowing people away with a .44 magnum. But that doesn't mean I think that's a proper thing to do.
The most powerful sidearm ever issued by the US military was the Colt Walker of 1847. It weighed 4.5 pounds, had a 9" barrel, and fired a .44 caliber projectile with the muzzle energy of a .357 magnum. It had an effective range of 100 yards, but was prone to blowing up in the shooter's hands.
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After 'Dirty' Harry Callahan (the police detective played by Clint Eastwood on film) described his Smith & Wesson Model 29 as "the most powerful handgun in the world", so many wanted to buy the .44 Magnum weapon that it sold for three times the original retail price.
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In the movie Dirty Harry, Clint Eastwood fired .45 Long Colt rounds instead of using .44 Magnum. This was because blanks did not exist for the .44 Magnum in 1971.
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A blank fired from a .44 Magnum at point blank could still kill you
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The gun in the Dirty Harry movies is actually a Smith & Wesson Model 29, and its the ammunition that is .44 Magnum
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Bruce Lee's son died when filming The Crow. They used real Magnum 44. bullets emptied of gunpowder for a close-up scene,mistakenly leaving one in the chamber. In later scene,they used dummy cartridges with gunpowder in them.The force created from the dummy ejected the bullet stuck in the chamber
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Actor Jon-Erik Hexum, who while shooting the tv series Cover Up, was bored because of delays and decided to jokingly play Russian Roulette and shot himself with what he believed was a harmless .44 Magnum prop gun. The shot drove a bone fragment into his brain and he died a few days later
