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Harry Callahan states that his Magnum 44 would blow your head clean off


Yet when he shoots the bad guys the holes look like they were made with a 38 special. What would his victims have actually looked like based on his quote?

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I had a friend once who ate 44 Magnums (double caramel) and he didn't survive that. Hope this helps.

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"Blow your head clean off" is rather like the simile "I'll kick your ass." Not to be taken literally. A lot of ass kicking is done to the face, with fists.

"Blow your head...CLEAN offf..." just SOUNDS good.

I read an article once about a cop who coined this phrase whenever he found the body of a victim of "suicide by gun to the head" victim:

He called them "Gumby heads." Their heads stayed attached to their bodies. But: They had heads like the rubber cartoon figure Gumby -- misshapen and sticking out on one side.

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