Sometime after introducing the original blued. Twice in my life a gun protected my young family, and in both cases the gun I had with me was the. 44 Bulldog was stashed in the camper and it came in handy. One year, now more than 30 years ago, we rented a motorhome and took a rare vacation with the kids, who were all in high school at the time - and the. At the time it was one of my most-carried sixguns and logged many miles in the top of my boot. 44 Special in the 1960s was a blued, 5-shooter with a 3″ barrel. However, Charter Arms is currently the only manufacturer offering a small-frame, 5-shot, double-action. 44 Special sixguns are available from Colt, Freedom Arms, Ruger, Smith & Wesson and Taurus. 44 Special became a catalog item for S&W once again.Īll during this time, except for a brief closed doors session, Charter Arms continued to offer. It wasn’t until our own Mike Venturino, Clint Smith and Editor Roy twisted arms at S&W (with the cooperation of Tony Miele there) a few years ago, that a fixed-sight, N-frame. During the ensuing years, S&W’s attention to the. 44 Magnum was too much of a good thing and traded it off, replacing it with another 4″ Smith & Wesson. 44 Special by fitting a new cylinder, or buy a Charter Arms Bulldog.Ĭharter Arms managed to keep the meagerly flickering flame of the Special alive, at least until Skeeter realized his mistake and admitted the 4″.
44 Special was to find a used one, convert something like a. 44 Magnum with the same barrel length, and by the mid-1960s, both Colt and Smith & Wesson had dropped the. Elmer Keith retired his, Skeeter Skelton traded his 4″ 1950 Target. 44 Magnum arrived in very late 1955 and started showing up in gun shops in 1956. In the mid-1960s Charter Arms brought out the first. During my high school years as I started reading the likes of Elmer Keith and then a little later Bob Hagel and John Lachuk I also acquired a deep interest and then even deeper affection for the.
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