Hickok 45 here with the dirty hariry 44
magnum model 29 chapter 2 one of my
favorite
revolvers get off my
lawn get out of
here yeah who is
it that'll keep him off my lawn on know
wait a minute that was a different movie
wasn't it okay that's all right
different firearm that's okay it was
Clint and this is the 44 magnum 6 and 12
in Model 29 and you have seen it you
better have well actually probably
thousands of you have not because you're
new so I'll link to maybe one or two of
them but we have several videos with
this dirty hairy 44 magnum it's kind of
what I call it cuz it's the 6 and2 in
and the it's the uh you know the dirty
hairy model okay and uh I've got the
four and I've got an 8 and 38 but uh
this this might be my favorite even
though it's not my first this is a nice
one so it's fun to bring it back out I
just enjoy the revolver so much and this
caliber and I want to thank even though
well almost any Farm but especially a
revolver you can load different
different Power factors and you know cuz
there's there's no springs that it has
to rely on you could load here I go
giving you information you didn't ask
for it and I didn't even mean to tell
you and I a charging you for it what's
wrong with me you really you could uh
you could take a 44 special if you're
hand loader or if you knew someone
loaded one if you wanted to I'm not
giving you advice on this but you could
load that down to where it it you know
is down to 200 ft per second 150 ft per
second if you wanted to uh I well maybe
I shouldn't say that there's a thing a
phenomenon with the larger cartridges
you get too light a load with certain
kinds of powder like in a 45 Colt you
some weird reactions and things but but
by and large you could put wads in there
and take care of it but if you really
wanted to do that you could load as
light a load as you want is my point uh
safely a safe load and it would still
function in this firearm uh normally
right but because there's no springs
like with a semi-automatic the slide has
to retract you have to have certain
power factor to get the slide to work
reliably and all that kind of thing
where as the revolver you're doing it
manually you're bringing up the next
round and whatever came out of that
chamber is kind of irrelevant as to
what's in the next one all right so
again no charge for that so let's shoot
something hot now you want to all right
these are some Factory loads and these
we've shot before these are pretty warm
even in my rifle my Marlin uh they've
got a nice little jolt to them and and I
don't like to shoot them too much in my
4in 29 they're no fun or my 3-in 29 629
they kick a little bit I'm a
baby here I am with a 44 magnum what am
I doing with a 44 magnum if I'm a baby
all right let's shoot that water
jug see what I mean and they're even
powerful enough to go through that
watermelon I
think they powerful enough to make it
just disappear immediately
right oh boy that was cool and uh if I
hold the gun right I get enough velocity
out of them to go through that they'll
even smoke a
pot did he fire five or did he fire
six all right so yeah little smoke pot
look at the smoke still in the
air can I run down there and sniff it
bad joke right all right Dad joke I'm
loaded with dad jokes Grandpa jokes
uncle jokes
whatever mainly lame jokes right okay
okay I guess that's what a dad joke is a
lame joke uh yeah man I'm going to show
you some more if you'll let me before I
appreciate their support and uh this is
again one of my
favorites if you haven't shot a revolver
you know what I always say what's wrong
with you you need to do it and uh you
need to be saving up to buy one not just
shoot one
okay uh I get a percentage of every
revolver that's sold no matter what the
brand yeah you You' think that wouldn't
you cuz I'm always trying toh convince
you cuz I know there's still a lot of
people out there who have not discovered
the joys of a revolver yet and uh I feel
sorry for you you know you need to do
something about it you know there might
be some kind of therapy or program you
could join I don't know but you need to
discover a revolver uh these are some of
my handloads they're a moderate
Magnum and uh that's what I have fired
the most of in my life since I started
loading 44s back
7374 that's how I put 70 well 75,000 now
through my 8 and 38 Model 29 most of
them were this load okay it's a nice
load it's plenty powerful enough you can
tell you saw what it did to the Cowboy
watch me hit him
again okay it's not a special load all
right let's go over there and see if I
can hit a uh
Buffalo it might be a good buffalo round
I don't know
yeah it'll do it it might be a good gong
round boom even a ram a
sheep right even a red square
plate maybe even a hog
round all right I must have hit him low
oh boy it's even a pretty good 2 L round
I think am I still am I still loaded no
all right I didn't think I was all right
so uh that's a nice round uh it really
is I used to shoot that round in
competition ihmsa Long Range competition
and uh I wasn't you know the best at
that but I did okay I'd have my good
days just like uh you any kind of
competition you practice you work at it
you'll have a good day in here and there
win a match Maybe here and there and uh
at that time I was casting my own
bullets 240 grain bullets out of wheel
weights load my own ammo just like these
and you know just as about as accurate
as anything that's one reason I uh uh
again another little side line I will
charge you for but uh that's one reason
I I kind of scoff at people making too
big a deal about accuracy in a handgun
especially if you're standing and
shooting about oh this Barrel is more
accurate you know just different things
like that even this pistol is more
accurate than that one if you're going
to shoot it just standing shooting this
kind of thing unless you're an Olympic
shooter or Olympic skill shooter uh the
firearm is going to be so much more
accurate quote unquote than you are than
I am okay generally speaking because I
did just as fine casting my own bullets
out of wheel weight and lead I could scr
and loading up the ammo and not even
sorting cases or anything like that when
it comes right down to it you know what
uh is the gigantic determining Factor uh
as to whether or not you hit the target
you're aiming at okay it's not whether
I've got a Remington case a Winchester
case a federal case in here mixed up
I've even got a cast bolet that might
have a little bubble it weighs three in
the lead it it weighs three grains less
than the one next to it yeah oh that can
have a little bit of impact but when it
comes right down to it here's what makes
the difference it's it's you pulling the
trigger when the sight's on the
target breaking the trigger at the right
time that's this that's just what it is
I'm sorry uh I'm going see if I can hit
that turkey up there on the top row 44
special okay I'm a little
high that was high
too there we
go and how about uh well we got some
stuff here needs to be hit look at
this I'm sitting here talking about
accuracy and I missed the 2 L cuz I just
pulled up and shot but really that's
what makes a difference yeah just like
that just like missing that 2 L it all
comes down to whether or not you're
ready to pull the trigger at the right
time and break the trigger when it's on
their target that's the biggest biggest
Factor so uh new Shooters me and
thousands of you Millions actually don't
get hung up on on uh get hung up on
practice okay and getting ammo if you
can but get hung up on that sort of
thing and technique and training and and
just uh you know dry firing and just
practicing getting that trigger to break
at the right time and holding your
sights on the Target and all those sorts
of and it depends on what you're
shooting if a defensive pistol like this
or what depends on what you're you're
shooting all right I don't want to lose
my man cards I'm going to pull out some
warmer Magnums again
okay yeah man let's put six of these in
here so that uh Clint Eastwood won't
think less of me all right even though
he carried kind of a well you know he
that controversial line he uses in or
says in the uh Magnum Force I believe is
where he says that they're down there at
that range shooting those other bad cops
and he says that he well how does he
phrase it I have a special load I use to
reduce recoil du du better followup
shots or whatever he says but he said
the way he says it is uh I I I use a
special load I think as his phrasing so
you don't know whether he means capital
S as in 44
special or like these this is a special
load I concocted you know so and I
interpret it to mean this really a
special load that's not quite as hot as
these better control uh but I think
someone was telling me based on uh the
the screenplay and before that what what
they really meant to say
was
uh not 44 special they didn't mean for
it to be that interpreted I think I
don't know who knows hey it's fiction
why are we arguing about it I got news
flash for you the guy Dirty Harry is a
fictional character although it's based
on a on a real detective I think boom I
I forgot what I was shooting guess what
reminded me when I pulled the
trigger it it reminded me very quickly
oh nice nice let's put one of these hot
ones on the
gong boom we got there pretty fast
didn't
it you almost uh see
just nice nice got one more round let's
hit this bowling pin right
here yeah Magnum course yeah so
uh yeah okay oh yeah I know what I was
saying I was uh and I'm going to let you
go but
uh in in a way it's almost more
rewarding and more fun when you shoot a
little bit lighter load like the gong or
anything far away because the report the
sound of the Blast has diminished enough
to where Bing you can hear the the steel
being hit whereas with that loud at
least in my ears where I'm standing
you're standing a different place place
than I am
uh the sound has not uh been reduced
enough before it hits the steel so I
don't hear the gong as well you know
with that and plus it's louder so that's
cool it's one thing that's neat about
shooting a suppressed you know that kind
of thing so we'll shoot six more here uh
I just want to get it out and shoot it
there's a lot of it and I I I just love
you all so much I wanted you to be here
when I do it okay didn't want you to
miss it cuz I know it's one of your
favorite pistols just as it is mine
revolvers and again the 6 and 1/2 in
Model 29 Smith and Wesson you know it's
pin Barrel it's an old one made in the'
70s it's h specifically a uh yeah 29
29-2 and uh you it's got the target
Hammer trigger the wide trigger the wide
Hammer many of you have seen it before
they're kind of a work of art there are
a lot of folks that prefer a Ruger Ruger
probably will last longer they're I mean
I had to do little rep air work on my my
other one I've got 75,000 rounds through
uh new trigger pin and ejector rods and
things tightened up and uh but by and
large you keep them running too and uh
so a lot of people prefer the riger cuz
you you shoot anything in it forever and
you know it'll it'll it's it's more
durable it's heavier all that but uh
many of us just prefer the lines of the
Smith you know it's just you know this
design has been around since when 1890s
you know this is just a swelled up
version of of those early what m& PS
kind of and uh just a a beautiful gun
beautiful gun historical and uh not
hysterical historical so you know we did
hope you see maybe I'll L I'll try to
link to two or three of those things if
I think about it uh the clinich would
tribute we did and things like that
because uh there's a lot of good movies
featuring this
revolver and that's where some of us it
helped us to get hooked on it right
uh if you're already a shooter and you
love Magnums and you love hand loading
like I did and all that it it just uh
came along at a perfect time of course
to uh to help feed your fever but uh it
also got a lot of people into shooting
probably and and buying revolvers so the
old dirty hairy that's why I call this
one the dirty hairy Model 29 all right
six
more what do you want me to shoot
okay Ralph I heard you uh even through
that pizza you're trying to eat you want
me to shoot this red plate uh Square
plate here close I heard that because I
never shoot it yeah that's a lot that
makes sense I never shoot the thing do
I and the round went too yeah heard
that I miss
that that's pretty bad okay I I
understand I never shoot the things and
I I'm about to leave a 2 L I heard
you there we go we don't want to do that
and let's shoot that Barrel over there
we might not hear it that new Barrel
drum I heard
it yeah I heard that it might be empty
yeah so the old dirty hairy 44 magnum
sweet revolver I could never shoot it
too much really I couldn't uh just
really thly enjoy it I have enjoyed
shooting 44 wow probably about as much
as I have over the years 9 mm 40 45 45
cold I guess I've shot a lot of rounds
of a lot of different calibers haven't I
but I have shot a lot of 44 loaded a lot
of 44 ammo cast a lot of 44
bullets and uh you know I'm sorry when
you have the addiction you just have it
not much I can do about it so I don't
fight it I just I just go with it okay
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