Jim March
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Late 70's production Charter Arms Undercover 38snubbie. Passed a detailed checkout, turned out to be unusually tight in all respects, $186 later it turned out to be capable of minute-of-torso at 50 yards 
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Now, I don't recommend Charter stuff for everybody, despite my good experience. Late in the Charter Arms era, quality went south. During the Charco years, quality flat-out sucked. The modern incarnation seems to be crude but functional and nobody's reporting the sort of gross defects of the Charco sort (barrel blown downrange on the first shot, crap like that!).
Mine is the variant with the open ejector rod, case-hardened hammer, steel primary frame in a "browned" tone, black-anodized aluminum barrel shroud around a steel-cored barrel, and black-anodized aluminum grip frame and triggerguard. Looks funky, but all bluing/anodizing is of good quality. Ignition is transfer bar. The crane can be swung out either by using the S&W/Taurus type cylinder release button, OR by pulling the ejector rod forward and unlocking it that way...so the rear release switch could either fall off or be removed, and it would still work just fine.
Being mixed steel/aluminum, it's about halfway in weight between an aluminum and steel snub. There are no sideplates; the action "forks up" into the back of the primary frame with the grip frame, in a fashion typical of Rugers. It should come as no suprise that the guy that designed it used to work for Ruger.
I guarantee you I'll never sell that gun.
.Now, I don't recommend Charter stuff for everybody, despite my good experience. Late in the Charter Arms era, quality went south. During the Charco years, quality flat-out sucked. The modern incarnation seems to be crude but functional and nobody's reporting the sort of gross defects of the Charco sort (barrel blown downrange on the first shot, crap like that!).
Mine is the variant with the open ejector rod, case-hardened hammer, steel primary frame in a "browned" tone, black-anodized aluminum barrel shroud around a steel-cored barrel, and black-anodized aluminum grip frame and triggerguard. Looks funky, but all bluing/anodizing is of good quality. Ignition is transfer bar. The crane can be swung out either by using the S&W/Taurus type cylinder release button, OR by pulling the ejector rod forward and unlocking it that way...so the rear release switch could either fall off or be removed, and it would still work just fine.
Being mixed steel/aluminum, it's about halfway in weight between an aluminum and steel snub. There are no sideplates; the action "forks up" into the back of the primary frame with the grip frame, in a fashion typical of Rugers. It should come as no suprise that the guy that designed it used to work for Ruger.
I guarantee you I'll never sell that gun.
