![]() It is unacceptable that a gun leaves the factory in this condition. It was off by a fraction of a turn, enough to cock the front sight to the left when aiming the revolver. We also noted during the range-rod test the barrel of the Pitbull was not fully screwed into the frame. Dry firing took care of the indexing issue, and all passed the range rod test. ![]() We also noted that the action of the Taurus seemed a bit stiff our initial dry firing in double action found the cylinder would not fully index to the next chamber at times. Range rods check the alignment of the chambers to the barrel bore. 410 shotshell and 45 LC.Įven though these were new revolvers, we still performed a range-rod test since there was a bit of side-to-side wiggle in the cylinders of all the revolvers. The three revolvers included two Charter Arms products, the Classic Bulldog in 44 Special and the newer Pitbull in 45 ACP, plus the Taurus Public Defender Polymer chambered in. We recently reviewed three 38 Special revolvers that cost about $400 and thought we would increase our budget and caliber size, and then sourced three revolvers each costing about $500 in three different big-bore calibers: 44 Special, 45 ACP, and 45 Colt, often called 45 Long Colt (LC) to ensure it’s not mixed up with the Auto Colt cartridge.
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