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Does anyone have any experience with this piece? I am thinking about getting one. what are your thoughts?

I would sure like to try one out. Hard to find, IME.

I have one and it's very nice to carry. I typically only use it when hunting as a deterrent for four legged predators. It's fun to shoot and the recoil isn't as bad as I thought it might be. It is ported though and makes a big bang. It weighs 19 ounces. I could have bought one yesterday in .41 mag for $375, but didn't have any play money. There was one on Armslist a week or two ago. Buy one, you will like it. Ken

No play money here either, and won't be for a little while yet. An intriguing gun, though.

coyotewallace had one. While the weight was nice, the size was too big for CCW, and design impractical for field carry.

It will NOT take hot loads, either (don't even think Buffalo Bore).

A better option for the same weight, nearly the same power, and far easier to conceal as well as being better for field carry, is one of the OLD Charter Arms .44Special Bulldogs.

I had a Taurus Titanium Tracker in 45 Colt. This 450 snub in Titanium you seek may well be a different version of the same gun, from what I can glean from Taurus' website.

I had great hopes for the gun, but as VANimrod states, it would NOT take anything more potent than a basic factory 45 Colt load (250 gr bullet at 900 fps or slower). I tried modest handloads in it, basic 250-260 gr loads at 1000 fps, and experienced some scary failures. We're not talking blow-up-the-gun catastrophic failures, but the cylinder would seize (NOT due to bullet jump... this was intrinsic to the mechanism of the gun!). Once seized, the only way to freeze the cylinder was a complete disassembly of the crane-cylinder array.

After several such failures, I boxed the gun up and sold it at a gun show. These are simply not robust revolvers.

It is simply a snub version of the same gun.

Thanks, Sean. That's what I figured.

Thanks guys! I had been curious about them, now off of my long range wish list.

Sean, Charter Arms older Bulldog was one of my first carry guns! Carried one from about 1982 into the mid 1990's or so. Easily my longest tenured carry gun and one of my favorites. Mine was accurate enough to take an occasional bunnyrabbit or other small game with as well. Great guns for sure.

Thanks for your input. I don�t think I�m going to be getting one. I might look into the bulldog though. What year would you consider an OLD charter arms?

Pre-1980s Charter bankruptcy. The old Connecticut made guns are where it's at. Bridgeport made or Stratford made (both Connecticut). Stay pre-1988, and better yet pre-1984, and you're good to go.

They'll run low-mid $300s, or less.

Surprisingly accurate. No, they won't take BuffaloBore or DoubleTap level loads, but they don't need to. The .44Special chunks a 200-225 grain HP at 700-800 fps. That won't bounce off, and it'll do yeoman's work on whatever gets hit by it. Easy to shoot, easy to recover from recoil, very accurate, plenty powerful.

It'll weigh about 19 oz, same as the much larger sized Taurus Ti, but conceal better, carry better, and probably be more accurate.

The triggers on the old CAs are generally very nice, too.

It'll probably have a fixed front sight, and gutter rear. Which is fine, as they are generally well regulated, and that's about as rugged a sight set-up as has ever existed.

BTW - Mark, you have no idea how good it is to see you posting, and posting coherently, again.

Thanks, coherently is good I know a lot of my mid crisis posts were a freakin mess, but I suppose I got the info out there. Pretty bad when you cannot even manipulate your fingers to type. For quite a few days I was too sick to even hold a telephone or even think about the internet.

Yep, those old C.A.44 bulldogs totally rock.

Ditto what Sean said, Mark.

I remember not giving a chit about tha innanet after my knee surgeries. Not giving a chit about tha innanet ain't a bad thing.

But I'm glad to see you're doing well. And yeah, me too. I gotta get me a CA Bulldog.