Back to Snubbies....How about Charter Arms?

[Dougdubya]

I wonder Why Charter Arms makes the Bulldog in .44 Special but not in .45 Colt.

Taurus makes one in .45 Colt.  Five shots, and a slabby 2.5 inch barrel.  Love at first eyeball.

'Course, my heart is taken by the Smith and Wesson Airweight Bodyguard.  The name.  The humpback.  The adorable liliputian nature, making it an enhancement of the proven 5 shot J.  Taurus' little Protector looks good too.  Heck, looks identical, and it's a full .357.

[John McCreery]

I have the undercover and like it as a backup.  Yep, close range duty.  I was practicing doing some point shooting with it on Monday at 10 feet.  Pulled the trigger, went bang, paper had hole.  Bought it new for $135 about 3 years ago!

[Hazcat]

Taurus makes one in .45 Colt.  Five shots, and a slabby 2.5 inch barrel.  Love at first eyeball.

'Course, my heart is taken by the Smith and Wesson Airweight Bodyguard.  The name.  The humpback.  The adorable liliputian nature, making it an enhancement of the proven 5 shot J.  Taurus' little Protector looks good too.  Heck, looks identical, and it's a full .357.

Doug,

I checked the Taurus site for the .45 snubby and didn't see it.

[Dougdubya]

Doug,

I checked the Taurus site for the .45 snubby and didn't see it.

FUSSBUDGET!  They discontinued it.  It used to be there, as was the .44 Special.  The only survivor seems to be the .41 Magnum Variant.

AH, here she is... under the Titanium revolvers:
http://www.taurususa.com/products/product-details.cfm?id=228&category=Revolver

Sadly listed as "discontinued."

They also had a nice .45 ACP snub too...

http://www.taurususa.com/products/product-details.cfm?id=118&category=Revolver

Again, discontinued.

[Rastus]

FUSSBUDGET!  They discontinued it.  It used to be there, as was the .44 Special.  The only survivor seems to be the .41 Magnum Variant.
AH, here she is... under the Titanium revolvers:
http://www.taurususa.com/products/product-details.cfm?id=228&category=Revolver
Sadly listed as "discontinued."
They also had a nice .45 ACP snub too...
http://www.taurususa.com/products/product-details.cfm?id=118&category=Revolver
Again, discontinued.

Don't give up.  Lots of time the distributors have enough to keep selling discontinued models for a year or two!

Also....check the online auction sites for unfired guns.  I've always done well that way.

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[Dougdubya]

Thanks, Rastus.  Again, Michael Bane was talking about the return of the 296, so my need for stubby .44's is being met.

[Walter45Auto]

Taurus makes one in .45 Colt.  Five shots, and a slabby 2.5 inch barrel.  Love at first eyeball.

'Course, my heart is taken by the Smith and Wesson Airweight Bodyguard.  The name.  The humpback.  The adorable liliputian nature, making it an enhancement of the proven 5 shot J.  Taurus' little Protector looks good too.  Heck, looks identical, and it's a full .357.

They used to make it.... Discontinued. I had one in bright blue finished Titanium.... It was stolen. I WANT IT BACK BADLY!!! You never see one for sale anymore either. It's been discontinued for more than 3 years I believe.

[tombogan03884]

Price of Titanium tripled, If you have one its worth more as scrap metal than as a gun

[clayflingythingy]

Was in Kieslers yesterday and the Charter 44 Special Bulldog was $379. My LGS sells Smith Airweights for $399. Like Charter guns of years past I wasn't that impressed with the Charter quality. Nor am I convinced the 44 Special is light years ahead of the better 38 Special loads available.

[Michael Bane]

Gotta say the new S&W "Night Guards" are sweet, especially the 5-shot L-frame .44 Special...which I ordered on the spot at SHOT (and, as the handgun manager for S&W said, "You, John Taffin and six of your closest friends...that's why we build the .44 Specials!). You can read about 'em on the blog, here:

http://michaelbane.blogspot.com/2008/02/period-exclmation-point-on-concept-of.html

Little bigger than the Charter, though...I can't wait to get my Charter back from Mag-Na-Port...we'll be doing a full report on it on DOWN RANGE.

Michael B