I recently bought an .44 Special Bulldog Pug (Three weeks ago) I read mostly good things about them and I love the .44 Special.
I looked it over at the gun shop and it was a bit rough on the finish and trigger, but figured on a $350.00 gun it was not going to be S&W grade. I got it home and inspected better than I could at the gun shop, looking down the barrel the first thing you notice was the chatter marks in the rifling, look a bit further and the chambers in the cylinder do not line up with the barrel! Looked like a crescent moon at each rotation of the cylinder.
I took it back to the shop the very next day and got my money back.

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