It is a five shot snub nose that is designed for concealed carry or a backup gun.
In 1973 Charter Arms introduced their Bulldog revolver. 44 Bull Dog was a popular American cartridge that was a shorter and less powerful cartridge that could also be fired from. Belgian and American versions (aka: Frontier Bulldogs) were chambered for the. American copies were manufactured by the firms of Forehand & Wadsworth, Iver Johnson and Harrington & Richardson. Numerous copies and variants of this design (authorized and unauthorized) were made in Belfast, Belgium, Germany, Spain, Pakistan, France and the United States during the late 19th century. British Bull Dog revolvers were issued to employees of the Southern Pacific Railroad Company until 1895. US Army general, George Armstrong Custer, was said to have carried a pair at the Battle of the Little Bighorn. The Bulldog was popular in Britain and America. Ī version made by Webley, but finished by Belfast-based gunmaker, Joseph Braddell, known as the Ulster Bull Dog, used a longer grip frame than the standard, making the revolver easier to control and shoot. The design originated in 1868 for the Webley Royal Irish Constabulary (RIC) model revolver and was manufactured as late as 1917. Intended to be carried in a coat pocket, many have survived to the present day in good condition, having seen little actual use. From that time to the present, the term has come to mean any short barrelled double-action revolver with a swing-out ejector rod and a short grip. The design of the British Bull Dog revolver had been in existence since 1868, but Henry Webley registered the trademark in 1878.
0 kommentar(er)
