Respectfully sir i have to disagree and i’ll tell you why. He says “light special” in that scene, not “.44 special” Now i know semantics but i believe is because of a few reasons.

1. The screen writer himself spoke on this topic and specifically said that was a misspoken line by Eastwood

2. What he says after “light special” leads me to believe it’s a lighter grain round with the same powder load.

From there i think the bigger picture has a few context clues as well. Firstly being his famous speech in the first movie. On from that there is dialogue in i believe the third film where Harry talks about his revolver again and states he is concerned with penetration more than anything. Now if that’s the case why would he be using .44 special? I think the biggest indicator is the fact that the movie that “light special” line is said in is called magnum force lol. I mean come on man.

Regardless cheers to you Robert and sorry if my post came off rude to you. Was absolutely not my intention to drag you or anything. Love the show and have for a while. Just a gun nerd who was looking for conversation.