It has been almost 75 years since the first Magnum handgun—Smith & Wesson's .357, which was introduced in 1935. What has happened in the world of handgunning since that great day has been well covered in books and magazines. However, what happened before is not as well known and certainly not as appreciated. Magnum handguns got their early beginning through a handful of intrepid souls such as Phil Sharpe and Elmer Keith who worked up firewall handloads for the .38 Spl. and cautiously tried them in the special N frame .38s called .38-44s. This name was applied to a fixed sight gun called the Heavy Duty and an adjustable sighted one called the Outdoorsman. There was even commercially loaded .38-44 ammunition. This was the first cautious step toward handgunning with serious power.
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