My Charter Arms .44 Bulldog originally looked like the bore interior had been sandblasted as a final finishing touch, and the rifling was shallower on one side than the other. So, I cut down a discarded S&W 696 barrel, installed it and re-contoured the frame some to match:
You’ve heard of a “Smolt,” with a Python barrel installed on a Smith & Wesson K-frame, right? Well then, this must be a “Smarter Arms.”
The configuration was inspired by my great grandfather’s H&R American D.A. .44 Webley:
… which had been behind the bar of his Silver Dollar Wine Room in San Francisco during the 1906 earthquake and fire:
Check out those silver dollars embedded in the floor tiles. That’s him behind the bar on the left, with the beard and wearing the Fez.