cheygriz
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By far, my worst was a Charter Arms "undercover." Absolute junk.
I could read the cartridge headstamp impressed into the frame around the firing pin
I had a Russian Nagant. It functioned okay, for a Nagant, but the DA trigger pull was ridiculously heavy. It had the worst trigger I have ever felt on any firearm.
Yep, same by me. Mine also had a cylinder hand that was worn down short and did not push the cylinder far enough forward. This meant the cartridge case mouth did not receive proper support, and cracked open on every shot. This meant you needed a small hammer to knock the cases out with the ejector rod. Fun!
well, you could have manually indexed it, until you got it fixed, that would have made a better gas seal, and probably helped accuracy.....
You mean pushing the cylinder forward hard enough to properly seat it against the barrel (in a normal revolver, that would be the forcing cone, but I am not sure Nagants HAVE forcing cones) with one hand, while pulling the trigger with the other? I am not sure I understand you, or that you understand me. I guess the problem is more difficult to describe than I though.
I do not own but had in my possession briefly a zinc framed Clerke First in .32 S&W. Someone had fired it with the higher pressure .32 ACP because I could read the cartridge headstamp impressed into the frame around the firing pin hole. The thin semi-rim of the .32 ACP gave the cartridge case a run-and-jump from the cylinder into the frame. Excessive headspace.
My worst revolver was a blues 2” Model 10 S&W that I bought off GB. The seller (a regular GB seller from the Houston area) listed it as a .38 Spl.
When I got It I didn’t realize this was one of the .38 S&W Victory models that had been polished and reblued.... and unbenounced to me also had the cylinder punched out to accommodate the longer .38 Spl cartridge. The chambers weren’t all “bubbaed” so the rechambering job wasn’t obvious.... until I fired the first six rounds and each shot split the cases to fit the .38S&W chamber diameter and wedged them in the cylinder!
I bought a new cylinder/ejector for about 25 bucks off flea bay, had it fitted and sold the gun pronto. At least the new owner won’t get split cases.
The worst built one was a stainless Rossi snub .38 that had a crookedly cut cylinder face. After about 10 shots it would bind up solid and fail to rotate.
Stay safe!
I bet it was the Charter " Charco "Let me preface this with the factual statement that I absolutely love the Charter Arms Bulldog .44.
Had owned many of them, through the years, and only ONE iteration of that revolver EVER gave me any trouble.
I had a Charco or Charter 2000, forget which, Bulldog Pug .44. You could revolve the cylinder by hand when the hammer was down.
Clockwise, counterclockwise, it didn't care. You could spin that sucker either way.