BobWright
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Several posts hereabouts about Charter Arms revolvers. I've had only one, a .44 Special Bulldog from many years ago. I bought it primarily from Skeeter Skelton's article in Shooting Times introducing the .44 Special.
I bought the Charter Bulldog and immediately began loading for it. Due to its short barrel, the extractor throw was a mite too short for reliable ejecting of fired cases. At that time I had a quantity of .44 Russian cases left over from some long-ago project. At that time, Speer had those half jacket SWC bullets, and I loaded some 225 gr. HJHP. I don't recall the load now, but it was built around Unique powder. My load, .44 Russian, proved to be very accurate and pleasant shooting in the little revolver.
One day at the range, there was some remaining snow on the berm 100 yards, actually 110 yards, down range. There were little clumps of snow remaining, about ten or twelve inches in diameter, so I decided to try that little gun at long range, something entirely out of its bailiwick.
I began walking my shots toward one clump of snow, holding the front sight up increasingly higher until the base of the sight blade was even with the top of the rear sight notch. Holding that preposterous sight picture, I touch off a round of .44 Russian and to my surprise, the snow clump exploded. Picking other clumps, I was able to pt anywhere from three to four rounds out of the five shot cylinder into those snow clumps.
Considering my load was not any screaming devil, I figured that little gun was plenty accurate!
But, in a wild moment, traded that little Charter Bulldog off for something a little heavier and larger.
Bob Wright
I bought the Charter Bulldog and immediately began loading for it. Due to its short barrel, the extractor throw was a mite too short for reliable ejecting of fired cases. At that time I had a quantity of .44 Russian cases left over from some long-ago project. At that time, Speer had those half jacket SWC bullets, and I loaded some 225 gr. HJHP. I don't recall the load now, but it was built around Unique powder. My load, .44 Russian, proved to be very accurate and pleasant shooting in the little revolver.
One day at the range, there was some remaining snow on the berm 100 yards, actually 110 yards, down range. There were little clumps of snow remaining, about ten or twelve inches in diameter, so I decided to try that little gun at long range, something entirely out of its bailiwick.
I began walking my shots toward one clump of snow, holding the front sight up increasingly higher until the base of the sight blade was even with the top of the rear sight notch. Holding that preposterous sight picture, I touch off a round of .44 Russian and to my surprise, the snow clump exploded. Picking other clumps, I was able to pt anywhere from three to four rounds out of the five shot cylinder into those snow clumps.
Considering my load was not any screaming devil, I figured that little gun was plenty accurate!
But, in a wild moment, traded that little Charter Bulldog off for something a little heavier and larger.
Bob Wright