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<blockquote data-quote="gerhard1" data-source="post: 3336280" data-attributes="member: 5391"><p>Last night, they had a murder committed with a 256 Winchester Magnum. The female cop said that was an unusual gun for a murder and it is.</p><p></p><p>The round (a 357 Magnum case necked down to take a .256 bullet) was produced by Winchester in co-operation with Colt in the mid-1960's and a few experimental Pythons were chambered in it, but they ran into a lot of problems with the cases backing out of the chamber and binding the guns up, so Colt dropped the program.</p><p></p><p>Ruger then developed a gun called the Hawkeye that was chambered in the 256 cartridge but it was a single shot based on the Blackhawk frame, but in place of the cylinder, a solid swiveling breech block was used and I understand that the cartridges were fed into the barrel</p><p></p><p>Here's a picture of one.</p><p></p><p><img src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/41/Flickr_-_~Steve_Z~_-_Ruger_Hawkeye_%287%29.jpg/300px-Flickr_-_~Steve_Z~_-_Ruger_Hawkeye_%287%29.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p>Like I say, it was interesting to see a rare gun featured prominently in a network TV program. Ruger produced around 3100 of the guns and then stopped making it. It is a much sought after by Ruger collectors. Thompson/Center also made barrels for the Contender chambered in this round.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="gerhard1, post: 3336280, member: 5391"] Last night, they had a murder committed with a 256 Winchester Magnum. The female cop said that was an unusual gun for a murder and it is. The round (a 357 Magnum case necked down to take a .256 bullet) was produced by Winchester in co-operation with Colt in the mid-1960's and a few experimental Pythons were chambered in it, but they ran into a lot of problems with the cases backing out of the chamber and binding the guns up, so Colt dropped the program. Ruger then developed a gun called the Hawkeye that was chambered in the 256 cartridge but it was a single shot based on the Blackhawk frame, but in place of the cylinder, a solid swiveling breech block was used and I understand that the cartridges were fed into the barrel Here's a picture of one. [img]https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/41/Flickr_-_~Steve_Z~_-_Ruger_Hawkeye_%287%29.jpg/300px-Flickr_-_~Steve_Z~_-_Ruger_Hawkeye_%287%29.jpg[/img] Like I say, it was interesting to see a rare gun featured prominently in a network TV program. Ruger produced around 3100 of the guns and then stopped making it. It is a much sought after by Ruger collectors. Thompson/Center also made barrels for the Contender chambered in this round. [/QUOTE]
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