Other revolvers from Charter Arms : Pathfinder, Undercover, Undercover Lite, Chic Lady, Southpaw, Undercoverette, Bulldog, Pitbull, Mag Pug, On Duty, Off Duty RATINGS: And that’s all that matters, isn’t it? SPECIFICATIONS:įinish: Stainless (black nitride is 63820)Īction: Single Action/Double Action (the hammerless 73811 is DAO) Customers emerge from both establishments fat, happy and glad to be alive. Sure the food at Smith & Wollensky’s is better, but it costs more. This Charter Arms revolver is a meat-and-potatoes revolver from your local diner. If I were looking for a highly accurate concealed-carry or home-defense handgun, didn’t care about caliber, or plan to fire thousands of rounds through it, wanted a revolver, had a strict budget and excluded used handguns from my shopping list, I’d buy a Charter Arms Undercover. Don’t get me wrong: The chances that the Charter Arms Undercover will fall apart at The Moment of Truth are less than the chances that the average white guy in Coon Rapids, Iowa will pull one from his holster for self-defense.
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Take a Charter Arms Off Duty or Undercover revolver to your local gunsmith for an upgrade or repair and you’re likely to be greeted with a Gallic shrug. Yes, well, if anything goes wrong with your Undercover, the ensuing transaction is strictly between you and Mr. And the company backs up its products with a lifetime warranty. And the Undercover’s 2-inch barrel is threaded into the frame for extra strength. For example, the Undercover revolvers’ side plates aren’t attached by screws like, say, Smith & Wesson’s.
But they were all pre-CEO Nick Ecker.įor their part, Charter reckons their. I also cruised the web for Charter horror stories - and found plenty. That said, I used the Undercover to send some 600 rounds of JHP and ball ammo downrange without incident. I’d pay the extra $200+ for J-framed goodness. NOW how much would you pay? Me? I assume that smoothness out of the box equals reliability down the road. Cylinder in, cylinder release, cylinder out. You don’t have to be a gun expert to know it. Simply put, the Charter lacks qualm-calming quality. It’s a problem that speaks to the reliability of the Charter Arms Undercover, and I can’t say I like what I’m hearing. I trained myself to check for full-cylinder lock. I’m also not convinced about the Undercover’s three-point cylinder lock-up system: I went off half-cocked more than once. In the world of personal defense, that’s not a good thing. The lack of trigger satisfaction doesn’t affect the handgun‘s accuracy, but it makes range practice something of a chore. Until the hammer finally, grudgingly, falls.
The more you pull the Undercover’s trigger, the heavier it gets. Weebles may wobble without falling down, but revolver cylinders should rock steady.īy the same token, a duty revolver’s action should be like driving into a wall. Closer inspection revealed a not-entirely-unexpected, entirely unacceptable amount of cylinder wobble. The little snub-nosed bastard was shaving lead and spitting it back at my face my right cheek was singed by a spray of hot metal. the cylinder wasn’t lined up with the barrel). I have every reason to believe that the testing and evaluation Undercover. The Undercover is a compact weapon of body mass destruction. Combined with the double-action revolver’s extra grooves, the Charter Arms Undercover delivers astounding accuracy at higher velocities. They also say the manufacturing process leads to less bullet deformation. The Connecticut company claims their mastery of the pull-broach technique ensures that their revolver barrels are better than their competition at sealing the hot gasses created by the primer and gunpowder. So all hail the revolver’s eight-grooved pull broach-rifled barrel. The Undercover’s sights are bog standard with a fixed front sight, and a rear sight milled into the top of the receiver. Only I’d already punched the paper in double-action mode. The collection of dots in the target’s center (at twenty feet) was so well-gathered that Adam at American Firearms School challenged me to repeat the feat using double action. I’m pleased to report that the Undercover is one of the most accurate. But a recent experience with the Charter Arms Target Mag Pug left me wondering if a reasonably competent shooter equipped with any of Charter’s products could hit the broadside of a barn. As a rule, I don’t worship at The Altar of Tight Groupings (great band).
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