It wasn’t until our own Mike Venturino, Clint Smith and Editor Roy twisted arms at S&W (with the cooperation of Tony Miele there) a few years ago, that a fixed-sight, N-frame. During the ensuing years, S&W’s attention to the. 44 Magnum was too much of a good thing and traded it off, replacing it with another 4″ Smith & Wesson. 44 Special by fitting a new cylinder, or buy a Charter Arms Bulldog.Ĭharter Arms managed to keep the meagerly flickering flame of the Special alive, at least until Skeeter realized his mistake and admitted the 4″. 44 Special was to find a used one, convert something like a. 44 Magnum with the same barrel length, and by the mid-1960s, both Colt and Smith & Wesson had dropped the. ![]() Elmer Keith retired his, Skeeter Skelton traded his 4″ 1950 Target. 44 Magnum arrived in very late 1955 and started showing up in gun shops in 1956. ![]() ![]() In the mid-1960s Charter Arms brought out the first. During my high school years as I started reading the likes of Elmer Keith and then a little later Bob Hagel and John Lachuk I also acquired a deep interest and then even deeper affection for the.
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