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1980 MAGNUM POWER! MAGAZINE REVIEW OF Dan Wesson Model 15

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January 26, 2011 - 10:20 am

Hi Guys:

While looking through some great old pistol magazines, I ran across a Dan Wesson Model 15 review that was published in MAGNUM POWER! magazine in May of 1980. Â MAGNUM POWER! was a sister publication to the somewhat famous PISTOLERO magazine and HANDGUN TESTS magazine as you may recall (if you are old enough). Â These magazines were published by Phil Engeldrum and had a wonderful concept of refusing adverstising from arms manufacturers so that their reivews and tests were not tainted. Â They told it like they saw it. Â They tested most pistols with 4 or more brands of ammo and showed the targets. Â Kind of like GUN TESTS is today.

So I uploaded the article to my web server and here is the url to the PDF.

http://www.lithicsnet.com/MagnumPower002.pdf

By the way... if any of you have old copies of PISTOLERO or HANDGUN TESTS or MAGNUM POWER! and would like to part with them please PM me.

Thanks and I hope you enjoy this old 1980's test of the model 15. Â I think they got it right...

Art

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January 26, 2011 - 11:05 am

Thanks a ton for letting us read the review. I never have understand why the DW revolver never caught on any better than it did. With everything it had going for it one would think it would be a huge success.

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January 26, 2011 - 1:26 pm

Great read, thanks for posting.Â The writer was very candid on his opinions.Â he commented on one thing I have always felt about on our beloved DW's but nobody has ever mentioned..Â Â I too think the cylinders should swing out just a liitle more, not for reloading but so you can lay it on a bench and the cylinder will STAY open.Â Just a peave of mine I suppose.Â

Thanks again.

SMF

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January 26, 2011 - 2:29 pm

Thanks for posting the article! Â This is one I had not seen before.

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January 26, 2011 - 3:17 pm

Very nice, thanks for sharing.

Happyness is a Hot DW and a pile of used brass!!! Rich

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January 26, 2011 - 4:59 pm

Supermagfan said:

Great read, thanks for posting.Â The writer was very candid on his opinions.Â he commented on one thing I have always felt about on our beloved DW's but nobody has ever mentioned..Â Â I too think the cylinders should swing out just a liitle more, not for reloading but so you can lay it on a bench and the cylinder will STAY open.Â Just a peave of mine I suppose.Â

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Thanks again.

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SMF

You know, you are right... all of my DW's tend to have two spent cartridges hang when dumping the shells... Â he was right on with that comment about the cylinder swing. Â For sure the staff at Handgun Tests and Magnum Power and PISTOLERO were very unabashed in their comments, both good and bad about pistols and rifles. Â You got to remember, they bought these guns off the rack... rejecting any offers of "testers" from manufacturers or gunsmiths.

From the few issues of PISTOLERO I have, they seemed to really like the Colt Python.

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January 26, 2011 - 5:37 pm

You very seldom if ever do we see a gun writer write somethingÂ negativeÂ about a gun they are reviewing today! Â Guess the manufactures hand pick the guns to be sent out for review and of course don't forget about the advertising dollars that go to the publication...