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The Charter Artillery Professional is a clean blueprint with much to recommend.

Bob Campbell

I accept used Charter Artillery revolvers for more than 40 years. Lease was introduced in the 1960s and armed many Americans at a time when truly good affordable guns were deficient. The Charter Artillery design features a transfer bar ignition for safety, among the kickoff revolvers to exercise so. The frame is steel also information technology is enclosed by aluminum to save weight. The revolvers have always been available with well designed grips. The sights are wide and easily picked up quickly. Quite simply yous get your money's worth with the Lease Arms, and peradventure then some. The Charter Artillery .44 Special Bulldog is the most famous product but revolvers in .22 Long Rifle, .22 Magnum, .32 Smith and Wesson Long, .38 Special, .357 Magnum and perhaps a few others have been offered. The revolver illustrated is among the almost interesting.

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While light the Charter Arms Professional proved easy to utilize well.

The Lease Artillery Professional is a pocket-size frame revolver with a 3-inch barrel, hand filling grips, a double activity/single activity mechanism, good sights, and a nice finish. Open the cylinder by pushing the cylinder release forward and you lot will see a 7-shot cylinder chambered in .32 H&R Magnum. The pistol uses the classic Charter Arms steel frame but the finish is a modernistic black nitride. I cannot see any problem with the durability of this finish. The rear sight is wide and broad like all Charter Artillery revolvers while the front sight is a fiber optic insert. This green insert is high visibility and hands acquired for speed shooting. Despite the lite 20 two ounce weight the Charter Arms Professional has proven a calorie-free kicker with standard loads. The action is as smooth every bit any modern product double action revolver. In single activeness fashion the trigger breaks at 4.5 pounds. I like the revolver a lot and afterwards firing more than four hundred cartridges I have formed a good opinion of the revolver.

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A heavy underlugged barrel provides adept rest.
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The fiber optic front post is a good option for all of u.s. only especially aging eyes.
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The rear sight is broad and easily acquired for fast shooting.

My primarily loading has been the Blackness Hills Ammunition cowboy load, a atomic number 82 bullet with modest recoil and good accurateness. I have also used the 85 grain JHP at 1055 fps. The revolver is very easy to utilize well and to burn down quickly. A trained shooter will find a neat group of cartridges on the target, well centered at seven yards. The revolver tended to fire slightly depression. I accommodated this past holding the front optic sight slightly higher than the rear sight, resulting in the bullets homing in on target. The revolver is more than than accurate plenty for filed and camp use, exhibiting v shot groups of ii-2.five inches on paper at 15 yards when carefully bench-rested. Frankly I went overboard on both fourth dimension and ammunition upkeep goals with this revolver. It is only a fun gun to shoot. Every bit for a comparing to .38 Special recoil, the .32 Magnum kicks much less than the .38 Special. I can place seven .32 Magnums into a man sized target in the same time, approximately, I can identify v .38s into the target. The .32 H and R Magnum isnt as powerful as the .38 Special merely and then accuracy tin ofttimes make upwardly for power. The reverse is seldom truthful. The .32 H and R Magnum offers reasonable ability for the low-cal recoil. Equally an example the Hornady Critical defence at 1040 fps penetrated well past twelve inches in testing and expanded well.

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The Professional proved reliable and accurate in all-encompassing testing.

Information technology is hard to separate the cartridge from the handgun and a look at the .32 Magnum is wise. The .32 Magnum it seems was originally intended every bit a crackerjack field circular. For small game the .32 is a hand loaders dream- economical, accurate, and effective on small game. For personal defence force it is more problematical. As we abound older we are more sensitive to recoil, the peel is thinner, and the joints ache. A .38 Special revolver, particularly a lightweight version, stings and may merely exist too much for many shooters. The .32 Magnum is a reasonable alternative. Near 85 grain jacketed hollow point loads will clock 1000 to 1100 fps from the Charter Artillery Professional's iii inch barrel. This is approximately .380 ACP class, perhaps a bit more free energy, but less expanded diameter. The .32 revolver with standard loads offers light recoil. It is a trade off but a reasonable 1. The .32 Smith & Wesson Long, as an example, pushes a 98 grain RNL bullet to a miserable 690 fps!

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The .32 H and R Magnum, left, compared to the .38 Special, correct.
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A five- and a half-dozen-shot .38 Special compared to the seven shot Charter Arms Professional .32 H and R Magnum, on right.

I liked the revolver enough to experiment with a couple of loads from Buffalo Diameter. Nosotros are introducing actress recoil into a package that was designed to offer lighter recoil, but we are also increasing wound potential substantially. If carrying the revolver for defense against feral dogs or the big cats the Buffalo Diameter loads change the equation. The 100 grain JHP is surprisingly fast — 1220 fps. The point of bear on is raised and the revolver is expressionless on the coin at xv yards. This load is closer to the .38 Special in recoil but offers excellent penetration and expansion. The 130 grain flat bespeak difficult cast load breaks 1190 fps. This is a stout load that sometimes offers sticky extraction and should be used sparingly. Recoil is there with this load. Buffalo Bore designed this loading to penetrate the skull of a bear in a last ditch effort to save your life. Information technology will penetrate xl inches of gelatin or more. These loads offer another option in the field for those wanting a lightweight but credible protection handgun.

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With both atomic number 82 and jacketed hollow point loads bachelor the .32 H and R Magnum is relatively affordable.
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The author fired a Critical Defense bullet into soft mud, left, into water jugs, center, and that is a 100 grain Hornady XTP fired into water, a Buffalo Bore loading.

Loaded with standard loads seniors or inexperienced shooters take a revolver they can apply well. Accuracy can make up for power, the reverse is seldom true, and the Lease Arms Professional .32 H&R Magnum has enough of ability and accuracy.

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Compared to the Colt Cobra, meridian, the Charter Arms Professional person is lighter but has a longer butt.

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