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My bullpuppy has be worthless from the get-go and was last THROWN to the back of the top shelf in my safe.
I have the Taurus 431 which is MUCH heavier and I love it, but too heavy to lug around fishing.
I wanted the Bulldog to carry fishing foe the SS, light weight and bullet weight. To bad it is far from reliable.
YES, charter has had it back . . . more than once.
First lemon firearm I have ever owned.
A fellow shooter had one of the older ones and it was great, reliable and a "shooter" Go find one of the older ones. New Charters suck, and that's well known.
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I have no desire for any of their new stuff either.*
I almost got interested when they trotted out their 45 ACP snub a few years ago; until I discovered each individual round loaded had to be pushed into each chamber, to over-ride the patented ejector star spring-thingy they designed into it.
Thought I simply misunderstood early product announcements, so I called the mothership & they confirmed it. A five-shot snub that is impossible to speed load? Do not want.
*Possible exception- convertible Pathfinder. But I'd still rather have an old one.
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My bullpuppy has be worthless from the get-go and was last THROWN to the back of the top shelf in my safe.
I have the Taurus 431 which is MUCH heavier and I love it, but too heavy to lug around fishing.
I wanted the Bulldog to carry fishing foe the SS, light weight and bullet weight. To bad it is far from reliable.
YES, charter has had it back . . . more than once.
First lemon firearm I have ever owned.
A fellow shooter had one of the older ones and it was great, reliable and a "shooter" I don't recall having owned a CA Bulldog, but I've owned several Rossi 720s with adjustable sights and like everything about them but the grip and the plastic front sight blade. A call to M&M Gunsmithing in Hazel Green, AL, at 571-276-7676 solves the grip issues, as they have a limited inventory of the larger "target style" grips that fit the 515/518/720 size frames and are larger enough, without being too large. A new metal front sight blade can be easily made with key stock with bench grinder and file. I have owed a couple of S&W 696s and in 20/20 hindsight wish that I hadn't sold them for as little as I did, but for a regular carry belt gun in rough conditions, the Rossi 720s seemed like a better option to me. I carry mine mostly to shoot snakes, so I typically carry it with 3 rounds of CCI snake-shot and 2 rounds of 240 grain SWCs or switch it around to 3 bullets and 2 shot capsules.
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I have the Taurus 431 which is MUCH heavier and I love it, but too heavy to lug around fishing.
I wanted the Bulldog to carry fishing foe the SS, light weight and bullet weight.
I have a couple of Taurus 431's and like them. I know Charters are NOT strong enough for the Buffalo Bore 44 Special but the Taurus apparently is. Both of mine are 3"ers, and can be carried with a descent holster. I prefer the 255 grain HC SWC as a minimum for standard black bears that get unruly.
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Buffalo Bore has a load thats loaded with 200 grain wad cutters, that rated for the Bulldog, has anyone used them? Im been thinking of getting a box from Midway, they are in stock. I only had 6 44, rounds, but have some ammo in route, also gun show tommorow, hopeing to find some there!
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Most j-frame holsters will work just fine. Sold my old M36 that I carried for over 25 years, replaced it with a Pitbull 40 S&W. Fits the Passport cordura holster the M36 rode in, with no problems.
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