I've owned bulldogs since the 80's, fantastic carry piece that brings a lot to the table. The 44spl is 1 of those forgotten cartridges that really shines in the snubnosed revolvers. A picture of an early ca bulldog (top) with a ca undercover below it.
That bulldog is on the rare side, it's an older model (high hook front sight) that was special ordered with a 2" bbl. Ended up trading it, never liked the high hook front sights. This is the bulldog I've carried for 10/12 years now, 2 1/2" bbl & low profile front sight.
I run across bulldogs at gunshows every now and then, if the price is right I pick them up, shoot them for awhile and sell or trade them off. That bulldog pictured above easily has 5,000+ rounds thru it. Mostly standard loads with +/- 200gr bullets and bullseye or clays. Every bulldog I've owned seemed to shoot better with +/- 200gr bullets & tend to shoot to the poa with hot loads.
Speaking of hot loads in the bulldogs 2400 powder is your friend. Did these test loads awhile back, was mainly interested in the top left bullet/load. All of these loads are in the +/-18,000psi range.
That bottom left bullet is the h&g (#142) version of the lyman 429215 bullet. It's a Thompson design that a real thumper in the snubnosed bulldogs. The top left test bullet is a lyman 429422 hollow based Keith swc. The FBI used a 158gr hollow based hollow pointed swc for their "FBI" 38spl p+ load. Buffalo bore has their well known 1000fps 158gr hp load for the snubnosed 38spl's. I put together a load that was the best of both worlds and put it in a 44spl case. A side view of that 210gr hb hp swc.
I've carried bulldogs for a long time now (3+ decades) and never felt outgunned.