Posted: 3/2/2008 7:07:38 AM EDT
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I'm wanting to pick up a small handgun for the Missus. I wish I still had my Titanium Smith, but i sold it a few years back. I'm thinking about getting a Charter Arms Pink Lady. It's approved for +P 38 Special. I wouldn't shoot many of those, probably use wad cutter so the recoil won't scare off the wife. I've searched all over the WWW and it appears that some years Charter was good, then some years they weren't. I'm interested in the current production. It's a super light gun, and kind of interesting in person. Any thoughts. BTW I'm not afraid to carry a pink gun..... as long as it's in my pants pocket.  |
Fixed the picture and the link.   Link to Charter Arms Pink Lady I am pretty secure with my manhood but that is a little to pink for me.  Do they make one that is all one color and not pink like maybe gun metal gray?  If they do, I hope it is not called "The Grey Boy".  I am just saying... 
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I suppose I should have mentioned it was for my better half, but I'm secure enough to shoot it myself. That said, does anyone know anything about new Charter revolvers? I might look at a small S&W, but I still don't like their sellout to the anti a few years ago. Taurus doesn't do it for me either. |
There's always the Colt Detective. At least the ones made prior to Colt also selling us out to be the .gov's bitch. ETA: A Bulldog .44Special has been on my list of wanted guns for a looooooong time. But I too heard about a time period where their QC went to hell.
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You DO know that S&W is under new management now and that the new management has completely abrogated the old "deal with the devil" from the 90s and is now selling scary guns that piss off antis such as .500 revolvers and AR15s, right? Being anti S&W for the Clinton deal is like being anti Ford because Henry Ford initially refused to sell Ambulances to the US Army during WW1 (he was anti-war). The modern company has no tangible link to the behavior causing your distress with them. |
Fixed it. There was a small burr on the inside of the ejector star, and the button that sits in the center of it was getting stuck in the forward position. Thus the cylinder wouldn't lock in place. Once I took it apart and found the burr, it took 5 seconds with the proper needle file to fix it. Runs great now. I'm still a fan of it for the money. Don't know much about Charter Arms these days, you don't see them very often. The local pawnshop sells them because they are cheap, but I don't know anyone who has shot even 100 rounds through one. I did a trigger job on that Taurus that is SLICK, baby. Man its 100% better. I recently did one on my 686 too, but I chose too light a spring from Wolff and I got some light primer strikes in double action mode, so I put the factory spring back. Which reminds me, I need to call Wolff about that... thanks Eric! |
I kinda like the red anodized version, the pink not so much. On gunbroker I've seen Charter revolvers that were bright blue anodized, & even one that was done in a patriotic scheme with red & blue anodized aluminum & stainless steel. They need to do one in lavender & market it to the Pink Pistols crowd   ...after all, revolvers are immune to limp wristing. |