Dirty Harry (character) AMP AutoMag built specifically for that film. In "Dirty Harry", he used a Winchester Model 70 bolt-action rifle in .458 Winchester Magnum for the night gunfight with the Scorpio Killer and used a switchblade during his second encounter with Scorpio. Harry also uses a Colt Python revolver to obtain ballistics evidence in "Magnum Force". Other weapons Callahan uses initially in the final climax of other films include a bomb, an M72 LAW rocket launcher and a harpoon gun. In "Dirty Harry" the San Francisco police chief comments on Callahan's fondness for overkill observing that he "likes an edge"; Callahan responds
Dirty Harry (character) wife that his wife was killed by a drunk driver. She appears in "Magnum Force" in an old photograph which Harry turns around. The doctor tending to him after the first film's bank robbery intimates that "us Potrero Hill boys gotta stick together". The first film's novelization explains that Callahan grew up in this neighborhood and describes a hostile relationship between the police and the residents. Callahan recalls once throwing a brick at a police officer, who picked it up and threw it back. The following sequels show that Harry lives within the city limits in a small studio apartment