Couple of nice old dogs

[lowercase]

The other day, I lucked out and came across an old Charter Arms Bulldog at the LGS.

This is a Stratford, CT gun and is from maybe the late 80s or early 90s. It looked pretty good and I got it for a great price as part of a package deal. There was only a couple small rust spots on the barrel. You can see where one spot of rust ate through the bluing. The grips are the no-medallion Pachmayr Compacs that were so popular on these guns. One thing that I like is that the frame has a nice plum color to it, different from my other Bulldog.



This Bulldog joins the other vintage .44spl Bulldog in my collection. That one came with the same Pachmayr grips, but I tracked down some NOS wood ones for it (NOT an easy task).

These classic 3" Charters are fun to own and shoot. I like to practice with 246-grain cowboy action loads. Those loads are super soft recoiling and not too expensive (for .44spl).

I like Charters both old and new and own a mix of seven of them.

 

[Drail]

Yeah, I would say you lucked out. Those are beautiful. Just keep feeding them those light cowboy loads and they will last a very long time. It's interesting what you said about the original wood grips. When I bought my Bulldog in 1987 in came with wood grips. After one session I threw them away and replaced them with Pachmayrs.

 

[bannockburn]

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Nice brace of Bulldogs! Like Drail I also preferred the Pachmayr Compac grips over the factory wood grips.

 

[Old Sims]

Classic Bulldogs. Nice.

 

[pikepole20]

I used to have one in a lightweight frame back in the late 70's. It was an alloy frame. With full power 44 special loads the checkering on the grips would leave an imprint in your hand. Good pistols for the money spent.