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EvaH
10-18-2012, 01:21 PM
What does it look like? In the book it says it's a .44 Ruger automatic but apparently they don't exist. What would be the closest thing to it? I need a reference image for some art I want to do.

Chantarelle
11-03-2012, 12:19 PM
Did you try and google it? I just had a look, and one of the first 10 links was 'images for .44 ruger' Can't believe a sweet little boy like John 'Bama' Chambers ended up attached to one of those things!

Bev Vincent
11-03-2012, 01:59 PM
King is well known for his lack of knowledge about guns!

EvaH
11-03-2012, 07:47 PM
Did you try and google it? I just had a look, and one of the first 10 links was 'images for .44 ruger' Can't believe a sweet little boy like John 'Bama' Chambers ended up attached to one of those things!
It was the first thing I did actually. I did see a lot of images for .44 ruger's but they were for revolvers not automatics like the one Jake took. I found some useful information on a gun forum so it's all good.

Jean
11-03-2012, 11:51 PM
Did you try and google it? I just had a look, and one of the first 10 links was 'images for .44 ruger' Can't believe a sweet little boy like John 'Bama' Chambers ended up attached to one of those things!isn't it exactly the point?

Wuducynn
11-04-2012, 11:07 AM
I've always pictured it as a Ruger Mark III except in .44 - http://arsenal.mojo4m.com/userdata/arsenal/ruger%20mark%20iii%20hunter%20stainless%207-black-350.jpg

Chantarelle
11-05-2012, 05:47 AM
It was the first thing I did actually. I did see a lot of images for .44 ruger's but they were for revolvers not automatics like the one Jake took. I found some useful information on a gun forum so it's all good.

In hindsight, not even sure why I replied. I have no idea what the difference is between a revolver and an automatic. Only guns I've ever seen have been on TV so I'm definitely not an expert. But I'm glad to see that you found what you wanted :-)

Chantarelle
11-05-2012, 05:50 AM
isn't it exactly the point?

Jean, I'm sure you know where I'm up to at the moment, which is making Jake seem incredibly vulnerable. I wanna take the gun out of his hand, cut the crust off his sandwich and just give him a big hug.

Jean
11-05-2012, 10:38 AM
Yes.

Amelie de Sade
11-28-2012, 11:04 AM
Ruger never produced an automatic .44, but Wuducynn has the right idea, as far as looks go. The original .44 autos produced in the 1960's as well as newer models by AMT look very similar to a MkIII.

mtdman
11-28-2012, 06:06 PM
What an big clunky looking gun.

Amelie de Sade
11-29-2012, 04:39 AM
What an big clunky looking gun.

It is, indeed. The .44 AutoMag had a few brief years of popularity, simply because of the "omgwtfbbqbacon, look at that motherf*cker" factor. It also has a terrible trigger pull unless modified, and the recoil is so violent, many people ended up with broken wrists just from a single firing.

pathoftheturtle
11-29-2012, 05:12 AM
What an big clunky looking gun.Yeah, maybe, but "Ruger" is such a compact manly looking word. :lol:

twice
10-13-2013, 01:05 AM
I pictured a Mark III as well, but the closest thing to a Ruger .44 automatic would probably be a 1911.

KatetOfNineteen
02-01-2014, 08:54 PM
For whatever reason I always pictured a slimmer version of a Desert Eagle. The Mark III is the closest actual Ruger model but the description in the book would make it a short barrel like a 9mm right?

Spesshart
02-21-2014, 12:51 PM
This is how I pictured it. Don't know why. Even though it is what we would call in Germany a "Kleinkaliber"
http://www.cowanauctions.com/itemImages/y3825.jpg

Merlin1958
02-23-2014, 04:42 PM
This is how I pictured it. Don't know why. Even though it is what we would call in Germany a "Kleinkaliber"
http://www.cowanauctions.com/itemImages/y3825.jpg

My thoughts exactly!!!

Saintmatthew
03-07-2014, 06:46 AM
I always assumed it look pretty sleek, like an SR9 but considering the various realities and discrepancies between them, the fact they don't make one wasn't a big deal to me.

bennylava
04-23-2014, 02:48 PM
I was wondering this myself. I feel like its somewhere that King got lazy and didn't want to do the research. Either that or he was confused.

Zurov
02-01-2015, 02:17 AM
The only way to explain the .44 ruger would be to realize Jake is not from keystone earth. The .44 ruger could be his worlds takuro spirit or Nozzala. But I always imagined the ruger .22 chambered in .44

Claude Clay
02-18-2015, 04:08 PM
This is how I pictured it. Don't know why. Even though it is what we would call in Germany a "Kleinkaliber"
http://www.cowanauctions.com/itemImages/y3825.jpg

and -- what a big clunky looking gun

---> Mr. Ruger used the same design he did for a corded electric drill;

grips & trigger are the same, the barrel is, of course, kinda a stand-off drill also