Magnum Research Desert Eagle Mark XIX

The .44 Magnum (DE44) and .357 Magnum (DE357) share this exact frame and differ only in weight and magazine capacity, but they are separate listings under the base-model rule, and neither chambering was coined in the union for them; add those values when a record needs one. Also separate: the 10 in barrel option, the L5 and L6 alloy-framed models, the stainless line, the threaded-barrel and integral-muzzle-brake variants, and the long list of finish editions (case hardened, tiger stripe, titanium gold, brushed and polished chrome, zirconium nitride and more), every one of which the catalogue lists at the same 10.75 in length, 6.25 in height and 1.25 in width. TWO MANUFACTURER DOCUMENTS AGREE VALUE FOR VALUE, WHICH IS WHY THIS RECORD IS UNUSUALLY WELL SUPPORTED. Magnum Research publishes a 32-page owner's manual carrying a technical-data section and a specification table, and the 40-page Kahr Firearms Group 2026 catalogue with a per-finish block for every Mark XIX. The manual's STANDARD column and the catalogue's BLACK block give the same 10.75 in length, 6.25 in height, 1.25 in width, 6 in barrel, 7-round magazine and 4 lbs 6 oz weight. The manual's four-column table was mapped BY COORDINATE rather than by reading order, as the Glock and Beretta manuals were: value columns sit at x = 118, 178, 240 and 303 with headers at 108, 169, 226 and 297, putting STANDARD in the rightmost column. Three independent checks confirm that mapping rather than assume it — the L5 column alone shows a 9.75 in length, an N/A for the 10 in barrel and a 7.5 in sight radius where the others read 8.5 in, and the STANDARD column's .50 AE weight matches the catalogue's DE50 exactly while the STAINLESS column's is an ounce heavier. THE WIDTH IS RECORDED AS AN OVERALL WIDTH ON THE MANUAL'S AUTHORITY, AND THE DISAGREEMENT IS DISCLOSED: the manual's specification table lists "Width: 1.25" beside Height in a dimensions table, while the catalogue labels the identical figure "Slide Width". The two documents disagree about what the measurement IS rather than about its value, and the manual — whose purpose is specification rather than sale — governs, the same call made between the CZ P-10 C's technical table and its features block. The basis carries the catalogue's label so a reader comparing this 1.25 in against another maker's overall width can see the caveat. Had only the catalogue been available the figure would not have been recorded at all, under the rule that kept Springfield's "Grip Width" out of the Echelon's overall width. THE WEIGHT ARRIVES WITH ITS BASIS STATED BY THE MAKER, which is rare here: the manual's row is headed "Weight w/ Empty Magazine", so the value sits in weightWithEmptyMagazine on the manufacturer's own word rather than on the inference this directory usually has to flag. It is published as "4 lbs, 6 oz.", the mixed imperial form the Springfield Kuna first hit; 70 oz is an exact re-expression within one unit system, and only the metric side is this directory's conversion. Operating system is recorded and unusually well attested: the manual's technical data reads "Method of Operation: Gas", its cover and body call the pistol a "Gas Operated Semi-Automatic Pistol", and it adds "Method of Locking: Rotating Bolt". Ignition and trigger action are unset: the manual names an adjustable hammer and a hammer assembly in its parts sections, which are components rather than a classification (the Hellcat and Kuna call), and it never states a trigger mode, so the Desert Eagle's single-action trigger goes unrecorded despite being well known. Slide finish is recorded from the CATALOGUE rather than the manual and carries its own source field for that reason — the manual never names a finish, and only the catalogue ties "Black Oxide" to model code DE50. Year introduced and warranty are unrecorded: neither document dates the Mark XIX, and neither states warranty terms, though the manual mentions that reloaded ammunition voids one. Manufacturer size class and directory frame class are unset; Magnum Research publishes no size class. Also published and unrecorded for want of a schema field: right-hand polygonal rifling at a 1-in-19 twist for .50 AE, a .500 groove diameter, a 2.75 in trigger reach, an 8.5 in sight radius, and the 14.75 in overall length of the 10 in barrel configuration.