One of the two magazines I have that features this experimental firearm is GUNS January 1981, featuring a customized "Baby Schmeisser" Ruger 10/22 outfitted with an "evil" folding stock and banana mag laying on a green surface.
Article writer Al Pickles met Jon Powers of Warren, Michigan at the 1980 Second Chance Police Combat Match. Powers' dream gun was a controllable, accurate and rugged .44 Magnum self-loader. The other magazine featuring this firearm is buried somewhere upstairs but mentions the defunct .44 Magnum AutoMag, which may (or may not) have been in production at the time.
Powers' Magmatic looks like a Terminator size Colt Woodsman with no external hammer, interchangeable barrels and accepts seven shot magazines (with an eighth up the snout). Pickles writes that the weapon makes use of a "buffered gas system" and was impressed by the 75 rounds he discharged through it, observing that he "found it no more difficult to control than a .45 auto loader with Super-Vel ammo." The loaded gun weighed 49 ounces and was controllable on rapid fire.
Pickles said that the Magmatic he shot was the lastest of several generations Powers had been working on. Powers didn't rule out the idea of marketing it but only after he had ascertained that his "gun will give 100% reliability."
I wonder what happened to Powers and his pistol. In this era of the Desert Eagle, the Magmatic might or might not be obsolete.
Jeff
Article writer Al Pickles met Jon Powers of Warren, Michigan at the 1980 Second Chance Police Combat Match. Powers' dream gun was a controllable, accurate and rugged .44 Magnum self-loader. The other magazine featuring this firearm is buried somewhere upstairs but mentions the defunct .44 Magnum AutoMag, which may (or may not) have been in production at the time.
Powers' Magmatic looks like a Terminator size Colt Woodsman with no external hammer, interchangeable barrels and accepts seven shot magazines (with an eighth up the snout). Pickles writes that the weapon makes use of a "buffered gas system" and was impressed by the 75 rounds he discharged through it, observing that he "found it no more difficult to control than a .45 auto loader with Super-Vel ammo." The loaded gun weighed 49 ounces and was controllable on rapid fire.
Pickles said that the Magmatic he shot was the lastest of several generations Powers had been working on. Powers didn't rule out the idea of marketing it but only after he had ascertained that his "gun will give 100% reliability."
I wonder what happened to Powers and his pistol. In this era of the Desert Eagle, the Magmatic might or might not be obsolete.
Jeff
Never heard of the Magmatic but I`d love to see some pics (hint hint guys 
). Marcus