The cartridge title of "Magnum" needs to be taken with a grain of salt, as it has no real definition other than it tends to signify "faster than some existing cartride" and even that has its exceptions.
We know 44 mag and 357 mag were modifications to existing cartridges.
454 Casull was an beefed up 45 LC but never took the "magnum" designation. Then S&W beefed it up some more and called it the 460 "magnum" instead of 454 mag or 45LC mag. Hard to imagine the 454 Casull not being a "magnum". I guess that old .45 Winchester magnum really messed the naming thing up.
We have .41 magnum, but we have no .41 special
Is 22 Mag a powerhouse of overkill?
We never got a 9mm magnum, but we did get a 38 Super.
What is a CCI mini-mag aside from "sounding like" a high velocity round?
I have both 30-06 and 7mm Rem mag which are so similar that I can't imagine ever saying "I'll take the 30-06 because that 7mm magnum is overkill".
A bunch of silly rambling, I know, but the only point is that calling somthing "magnum" doesn't necessarily mean much, but it sounds great as a marketing tool.
We know 44 mag and 357 mag were modifications to existing cartridges.
454 Casull was an beefed up 45 LC but never took the "magnum" designation. Then S&W beefed it up some more and called it the 460 "magnum" instead of 454 mag or 45LC mag. Hard to imagine the 454 Casull not being a "magnum". I guess that old .45 Winchester magnum really messed the naming thing up.
We have .41 magnum, but we have no .41 special
Is 22 Mag a powerhouse of overkill?
We never got a 9mm magnum, but we did get a 38 Super.
What is a CCI mini-mag aside from "sounding like" a high velocity round?
I have both 30-06 and 7mm Rem mag which are so similar that I can't imagine ever saying "I'll take the 30-06 because that 7mm magnum is overkill".
A bunch of silly rambling, I know, but the only point is that calling somthing "magnum" doesn't necessarily mean much, but it sounds great as a marketing tool.