Abbreviations: FMJ, full metal jacket SJHP, semi-jacketed hollowpoint SCHP, solid copper hollowpoint LRN, lead roundnose JHP, jacketed hollowpoint TMJ, total metal jacket. Notes: Accuracy is the average of three five-shot groups, fired at 25 yards from a sandbag rest. I luckily found that out before doing the chronograph sessions or I might have shot my skyscreens.įor the ammo-crunching drills I did to test function, I simply aimed where I'd always aim and let the groups form at the bottom of the 'A' zone on my USPSA targets. What was a real problem was that those groups were more than a foot below where I was aiming. A group smaller than the apparent width of the front sight is entirely acceptable. A narrower front sight would make aiming easier, but I was still able to shoot four-inch groups at 25 yards with it. The front sight is 0.150 wide, and it subtends 41â'„2 inches at 25 yards. The accuracy is good, although the width of the front sight makes aiming a bit of work. 357 Magnum ammo, as the recoil is downright painful. 357s, in exotic titanium, scandium and unobtainium alloys. Yes, all the wheelgun cognoscenti now carry snubbie. It's a stainless steel, six-shot revolver chambered in. The company sent me a box 'o guns, and this Firing Line report is on the Police Undercover. It is back in business-has been for a while-and is making the same well-constructed low-cost revolvers it did before.

When the company was not in operation, getting parts was impossible. What kept me from repairing them was the on-again, off-again existence of Charter Arms.

Most any revolver would have quit if treated that way. They were rusted, lint-packed and the oil was congealed in them. The ones that came to me didn't work, and for the most part it was clear why: They'd been abused-dropped, filed-on abused. How? I changed the oil, washed it and did all the other normal maintenance things you do to a car.Īnd so it was with the Charter Arms revolvers I'd see as a gunsmith.

'Then they die, Pat.' Mine? I traded it off at the 135,000-mile mark, still working fine. A friend of mine owned a service station, and his experience was that Escorts lasted 60,000 miles.

Excuse me, but who deliberately treats a firearm badly? A long time ago I owned a Ford Escort.

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