Charter Arms .44 Bulldog First Serial #

[DWalt]

One way to tame some of the recoil is to install a set of sambar stags. This old gal was purchased some time in the early 1970s and has been carried many many miles is the woods over the past 50 years. Resting in a shoulder hoster under my left arm, she has been wet many time, rain, sweat, etc and has taken many a timber rattler in the Appalachian mountains that I have played and worked in for the past 50 years. A lot of "usage marks" and she does duty in the night stand in her later years. 287292 is all mine and one of the first revolvers in my group over the years.

Did you add the adjustable rear sight? I have not seen a Bridgeport BD with an adjustable rear sight.

 

[DWalt]

Little tiny gun, great big bullet. What's not to love? For defensive guns, I can put up with a less than wonderful trigger. If I shoot them enough I get used to the feel, and I'm not looking for tiny groups.

No one needs match-level performance from a .44 BD. The ability to make a COM hit at 5 yards is good enough. I have no complaints about my BD's trigger.

 

[STORMINORMAN]

Not from Bport, but...

My ON DUTY (Model 74410) Bulldog has the shrouded hammer (sans the S&W Model 38) that allows single-action accuracyrolleyes:?) at the range.

I really don't find the double-action pull to be in any way objectionable: plenty smooth enough for me, anyway, and I can stack it at will.

Fits my Model 19 holsters as well.

Cheers!

P.S. This my 2nd from CA: have an Undercover 38 Special that might go back to the Bport era...

 

[DWalt]

I think most of the Bridgeport-made CA revolvers have their barrels stamped as Bridgeport Conn. Earliest have no city stamping.

 

[superc]

For what it is worth, my own Bridgeport made Bulldog is serial number 20877X.

 

[superc]

A few years ago spoke with a very nice lady at Charter Arms about this Bulldog. She took the serial number and a few hours latter called me back. Said that it was made in the first year production'73. She had no info on the pocket hammer.

I have always wondered if the LE hammer CA made for the Undercover revolvers would fit my Bulldog. Possibly so.

 

[beagleye]

The guns I grew up with had awful triggers. We never even had the discussion, good trigger, bad trigger. We didn't know better, and we were making good shots. If it's the gun you got, and you use it a lot it'll probably work fine.

 

[beagleye]

One way to tame some of the recoil is to install a set of sambar stags. This old gal was purchased some time in the early 1970s and has been carried many many miles is the woods over the past 50 years. Resting in a shoulder hoster under my left arm, she has been wet many time, rain, sweat, etc and has taken many a timber rattler in the Appalachian mountains that I have played and worked in for the past 50 years. A lot of "usage marks" and she does duty in the night stand in her later years. 287292 is all mine and one of the first revolvers in my group over the years.

If Daniel Boone had a revolver it would have looked like that.

 

[edwardyoung]

If you’re still collecting info, I’ve got a Bridgeport, Conn marked 3” Bulldog, sn 219696. I love all of the early Bulldogs I’ve had.

 

[DWalt]

If you’re still collecting info, I’ve got a Bridgeport, Conn marked 3” Bulldog, sn 219696. I love all of the early Bulldogs I’ve had.

Yours is fairly close to the SoS .44 Bulldog, SN 212927.

 

[ETMJR]

My Bridgeport Bulldog is sn 213960.

 

[HARLEY0]

I have been searching for awhile for what the first serial number was for the CA .44 Bulldog, First Model (Bridgeport). From what I have found, it seems to be reliable information that .44 Bulldog production began sometime in 1973, and also that all revolver production at Bridgeport stopped around SN 315xxx sometime in mid-1974. I ran across a posting from someone who had taken a Bridgeport CA plant tour n 1973, and .44 BDs were being made at that time. Apparently, all CA models were SNed sequentially, i.e., Bulldogs, Undercovers, etc. were numbered together in the same numerical sequence at that time. What I am looking for is the approximate first SN given to a Bridgeport .44 Bulldog. Does anyone know? I have read that CA has no SN data available for Bridgeport production.

I would also be happy to receive any .44 Bulldog SNs you have that are below 315xxx, as even that would be helpful. Using the xxx format is OK.

I onwed a .38 special that Charter Arms gave to be. Because of someone knew the owner.