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Looking at a Older bulldog in 44 special, 3 inch barrel, seems to be in Good shape, smooth trigger, with Pachmayer Grips, asking $315.00 is that a good deal on one? dont realy care for the newer ones.

I would buy it for $250 if it was in decent shape, maybe $275.00

I'd jump on it. The older ones in nice shape are hard to come by, and pretty nice guns, particularly considering their caliber, weight, and compactness. Very unique in the gun world. The new ones aren't nearly as nice, and they aren't making any more of the old type.

If I ran into one today it would be mine, at that price. Would I try to do better? You bet. But I wouldn't walk away. It's a fair deal. If you want one, don't quibble.

Kinda what I fig. they were asking $330.00 for it got them down to $315.00 put it in Lay A Way Iv not seen one in a long time, and this one seems Nice! Thanks

Have one similar...but from our 'friends' from Brazil...

my 2" ported Taurus 44S....alloy frame..SS cylinder

bought it 17 years ago....carry alot...shoot some.....

run 7/Unique with 200 gr Horny XTP..been a good one...

I had one in 1977, it keyholed bullets at 10 yards, still $250 would be a good price for a belly gun.

Mine from the early 1980s could group pretty well out to two hundred yards.

Sorry I would have to see that to believe it. A bulldog shooting 200 yards is kind of funny. Keyholing lead bullets at 10 yards is more believable. Just to hold the thing and shoot it was like a firecracker going off in your hands...yep 200 yard groups..kind of internety...

I bought one for my first wife sometime in the mid-1970s. She shot it enough to remain proficient with it, shooting only factory ammo. Never saw it keyhole with anything we tried in it. She had a problem with the ejector star sometime in the mid-1990s and I sent it back to Charter Arms for her. Got it back like new with a much better D/A trigger. A few years ago, she sold it to my grandson for his wife who carries it and shoots it regularly, and I haven't heard of any problems with it. I think it's a fair price--not a bargain, but a fair price.

Got mine at a pawnshop a couple of summers ago. He went down from $330 to $315 and threw in the box of WW loads you see there. Also came with a UM cordura holster.

Was a little gritty but just needed to be cleaned up. I stoned the trigger and other moving parts and it has a really good SA pull and a decent, albeit fairly heavy, DA pull.

When I carry/carried it I keep it fed with 200 gr GD at about 850. Pleasant to shoot and damn near perfect size for a .44 SPL. My buddy liked it so much he bought a new one. Excellent quality, slightly better DA and just as crisp and clean SA as mine right out of the box. Great, reliable little wheels.

I've owned a bunch of them over the years. I'd buy at that price on a nice condition older model. They were the best, IMO.

I've now got one of the new stainless models with the 3" barrel, and I've been very pleased with it too. Mine is my go to arrowhead hunting gun at the Ranch in the summer time. I load the first round with the Speer / CCI .44 shotshells for snakes and the other 4 cylinders with the Speer Blazer 200 grain Gold Dot HP load. They work well on small hogs & skunks.

My current 44 special is a Charter like Mojo is showing. I've had a couple and this one started with a descent D/A trigger that I can live with. I'm going to buy some of those 200 grain Blazers. They look pretty tough.

Check out the Taurus 431. Those are nice and a little stronger gun. 3" barrel, fixed sights, I have a blue one and just bought a stainless one and waiting for that.

The one im getting is a blued pistol, Im guessing at 3" barrel. Just seemed to fit my hand well, I realy didnt want to get another pistol at this time, as I just got my LCR 327, been carrying that one a bunch, guess the Bulldog was calling to me, sometimes a Good thing!

If it's good enough for David Berkowitz....

Not a bad price for an older gun but look at one thing carefully before you buy it.

Check the forcing cone area of the barrel shank where it screws through the frame. Many of them have a flat spot that is pretty easy to see at the 6:00 o'clock position...if you get one of those they turn bullets sideways at 10 yards...

And have you looked at the new ones that look just like the originals...not the stainless ones with the full underlug barrel.. CA now has the originals available...

Bob

Me and an old retired deputy (then working as a range officer) both had one. We used to attract attention by setting up clay birds on the 200 yard hill and see who would be the first to break it. It didn't ever take more than a few tries, and no shot was more than a few inches off.

His demonstrating this feat with his .44 Bulldog was the reason I bought mine.

Amazing what you can do with a heavy caliber iron sight handgun if you have a big dusty field to shoot over and grew up reading Elmer Keith.

I was thinking "Son of Sam" too. I always make that association every time I see a Bulldog - not that it would stop me from owning one.

My wife inherited her dad's old blued Bulldog. So far it's reasonably accurate, seems for and finished fairly well and make a a nice big bore packing gun. My only complaint is the factory wood grips are a little things for my big hands so newer grips are definitely in order.