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Gunslinger
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My next door neighbor gave me a Charter Arms 38 special "Undercover" that he's had for a while. It's a beautiful piece, and with it he gave me two boxes of ammo. I'm not entirely sure why he decided to give it to me, but I won't complain. I wanted a snubnose blued revolver to add to my collection, and now I have one.
He mentioned he never fired it, and I'm glad he didn't. He ammunition he had for it was a hodgepodge if I ever saw one. There are 13 different stampings on 103 rounds. It's mostly Winchester, Remington and Federal, but there's some others too. There's a round of speer, S&W, PMC, FC 88/86/84, Western, W-SUPER-W, 3-D, W W, and supervel.
The scary part is, several of the rounds, probably close to half, are +P, and I even saw one +P+. Given the age of the revolver, I warned him about +P ammo and how it could grenade the revolver. Had he actually used this ammo, I fear he could have been seriously injured. I mentioned this right before he gave the revolver to me.
Given the very wide variety here, I'm going to elect to not fire this ammuntion at all through this handgun. I plan on getting a 686 at some point which I know can tolerate anything in these boxes. They appear to all be factory wadcutter type ammo with nickel cases. The boxes claim these to be 'police cartridges', and 158 grains. I have no way of proving that, of course. I'll con my father into helping me buy some .38s that I actually know what they are. None of the ammunition is corroded in the least.
I'm going to get a very mild .38 load if I can. After a good cleaning and relubricating, the old wheelgun seems to be perfectly OK. The bore is nice an shiny, too.
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