18 DECEMBER 1993, Page 57

Killing point

Sir: Martin Vander Weyer (`Satisfactory banging noises', 20 November) should have given the pseudo-dukes of Duchess County a miss and spent more time with 'beer-swill- ing, rifle-waving city-dwellers' and 'red- neck, gun-toting' frontiersmen. He would have learnt that Dirty Harry's .44 Magnum is made by Smith & Wesson, not by Colt.

Antony F. P. Vickery

118 Fillmore Street, Phoenixville, PA 19460, USA