magnum large bottle holding 1.5 litres He receives £750 and a magnum of champagne . The winner's nominator wins a dozen magnums of champagne . large gun Doyle checked his forty-five magnum , then slotted it back into the holster on his back belt . If someone gets hit by a magnum bullet , he is dead . Mortally wounded , but clutching the magnum pistol he always carried , he crawled between two parked cars in a place called Freedom Square .