![]() ![]() At one time, there were either expensive guns or cheaply-made guns, but little in between. I have heard that the companys reputation suffered after the Bridgeport years.The Undercover isn’t a cheap gun and never was, but it is affordable, a new type of handgun in the supply chain. If the gun you're interested in was made anywhere but Bridgeport, someone else will have to tell you what to expect because I don't know. (It has spent its life since I owned it mostly in a beside table drawer.) I sold the gun years ago, but I saw the person I sold it to about a year and a half ago, and the gun was still tight circa 2009 and in good condition. ![]() The gun was surprisingly accurate with standard velocity LRN too. The gun was far more pleasant to shoot with standard velocity 158 grain LRN ammo. I soon learned that the gun wasn't any of fun to shoot with +P though it was so lightweight, that upon recoil, the hammer spur would tear up the webbing between my thumb and forefinger, so I never shot it much with +P. The first ammo I fired in mine was a box of what today would be called +P rounds, purchased against all advice. It was marketed as 'a pound of protection', a reference to its light weight and serious caliber, and it was all that. The blueing was very good, though not as good as Colt. Many people replaced them or added Tyler T's. The grips were really too small for my hands. The stock gun as it came from the manufacturer had tiny wood handgrips on which there was a silver colored design of a charter or scroll. in the early 1970's was that they had a supposedly unbreakable 'berylium' (sp?) firing pin. One unique feature about the 'Undercover Model' 38 Special snubbies that were made by Charter Arms in Bridgeport, Ct. I think the cylinder was too but I'm not sure that the metal in the handle was, though it may have been. The barrels and frames were made of good gunmetal. I believe the barrel and frame were all of a piece or at least they could not be disassembled. It was a very stylish gun for its day, with an exposed hammer. I have no personal knowledge of the products produced by the various reincarnations of the company that came after that.The snubby 38 Special that Charter built in Bridgeport back in the early 1970's had a 1 7/8 inch barrel and was called the Undercover model. I believe the earliest and best Charter Arms revolvers were manufactured by the first incarnation of the company which was Charter Arms Corp. Can't help you with serial numbers, but if you look at WHERE the gun was manufactured, that can tell you a lot. ![]()
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