Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Handguns My new Charter Arms 44 Special Bulldog Pug 2000.

Very accurate round.Has a little bit of everything I Have wanted in handgun.This is my first handgun.I have spent about a thousand hours with a 44 Mag that my friend owns.I reload all my ammo.

Any good loads for the 44 Special I should know about?

Congrats and welcome. Put a couple hundred rounds through it and let us know how it fairs. Looks like a good un.

Your .44 is out of time. Look at the line going around the cylinder at the notches it means the cylinder pin is touching the cylinder. A good gunsmith should be able to time the handgun.

Please elaborate on "time"???????

Well I guess I'll just have to send all my Smith&Wesson revolvers in too!

Sorry I haven't gotten back to you sooner. According to a couple of friends of mine one a pistol smith when you start to see a ring around your cylinder the latch or whatever it is called is not dropping down all the way when you fire the weapon and therefore cuts a ring around the cylinder. It apparently does no harm to the weapon other than affect its looks. They tell me it is not hard to adjust the latch so that it does not drag when firing the weapon and probably does not cost much more than a $50 bill. Oh ya the pistol smith should be able to polish the ring out of the cylinder if it is not to deep. If you plan of shooting the weapon a lot that is what I would do.

Yes if you want to keep them looking nice and without the ring. Every revolver except for custom ones need to be timed for that reason.

now that is one sweet little revolver. Congratulations, and by the way, great photos as well.

Technically Derby is right. But every revolver leaves a ring around the cylinder sooner than later. I've never owned a revolver that didn't - and that's been quite a few. Forget about it and enjoy your pistol.

If you cock it and the cylinder isn't locked into place, it's out of time. Most likely you will notice lead shaving off of the bullets as they enter the forcing cone of the barrel if this happens.

My reason for bring the ring and timing up is because the ring is so noticeable in the picture. I have a Ruger .44 mag that could use some timing but as had been said it doesn't shave lead and one has to use some pretty heavy magnification to see the line on the stainless steel cylinder. I don't shoot the .44mag that much so by the time the cylinder wears out form the timing problem I'll probably be dead. More revolvers probably wear out from poorly timed cylinders than anything else.

This was just a suggest and I've said my peace. Amen!

I will be Reloading some 44 Specials Thursday.I will post up some pics of the paper and maybe some vids.

Hey 44

I had a blue .44 Pug in the 80's. I lost it in a trade for a Colt trooper. No complaints on the Colt, I still have it, but I regret trading the Pug. One of my friends loaded some .44 shotshells with #12 shot. Great for snakes in my area. I still have a SS 3" Pathfinder that I bought back in the 70's and sent back to the factory to have converted to .22Mag. Good luck.

George

I heard that the older model had some problems.

They have worked them out now.I car hit a empty propane tank 4 times at 50 yards with factory loads.I currently have put 100 rounds threw it last weekend.

It seems someone else has taken the Maser/MySpace/VaTech shooter pic idea as a persona.

Great... just great....

This wasn't what I was going for.

I am sorry have I offended anybody?????

I would gladly change it for a show of posts.

Compare the pic of you pointing that .44 straight into the camera with the pics of that POS that shot up VaTech... or any of the other little loonies that have done similar.

That, and a pic in the sig line clutters stuff up, and eats up server space and bandwidth like crazy.

Me too. I could have written the above post. I had one back in the 80's too. Loved it. Even lighter than the new ones. Lot of kick, but it was designed to be carried a lot, shot a little. Sorry I sold it. Reason I sold it was that a pin would gradually slide out of the frame under recoil. Just had to push it back in every so often. Still wish I hadn't sold it.

Nice gun. Enjoy it.

1nice,

Your gun is fine.

Derby Doofus heard something from somebody who may have known someone that called themself a "pistolsmith".

The bright ring is caused by the bolt dragging across the cylinder under tension like it is supposed to as the action is being cycled. Not by whatever the heck Derby Doof called it.

What does it mean? It means the gun has been shot or at least dry fired. In other words - harmless.

Forums are a place where any idiot can post BS - pick who you listen to carefully.

TM

I always do.