I threw it in my range box and did not know it came off of my gun until I got home. The first one I found lying there one the ground as I was shooting another gun. Even though the measurements and weight between it and the 637 are almost identical, the Charter just feels smaller to me. Still, the original Undercover is about the smallest snub. Around here you can buy an S&W 637 or 642 for about the same price as a stainless Undercover. Unfortunately Charters aren't the bargain they used to be. This load is super accurate, easy to shoot, and penetrates well. I keep both snubbies loaded with 3.1 grains Bullseye and Federal primer under a Lyman 148 grain full wadcutter for 712 fps across my chronograph. Don't worry, these grips were pretty beat to begin with. It has the skinny wood grips which I etched some traction lines into with a wood burning tool. The finish is pretty beat but I don't think it was ever fired much, the action is still pretty tight and no turn ring on the cylinder. Paid $130.00 for it plus shipping and transfer from Gunbroker. A mid 70's vintage Undercover is my house carry gun and it shoots just as well as my much newer S&W 637. I'm a big CA fan and have had a few of them. I think I will be looking for a Pachmayr grip adapter for the S&W J-frame to add to it.Īnyway, I have shot a couple of Charter Arms in the past, but this is my first to own. While I don't doubt that they would handle the recoil better, that kind-of defeats the purpose of a CCW piece. While they have both wood and rubber replacement grips for the Charter Arms they are quite a bit larger than the existing grips.
I have not seen replacement grips for the Charter Arms that are similar to the 642. Surprisingly, the weight of the Charter Arms is only about 4oz heavier than the 642. The rubber boot grips on the 642 worked better with the heavier load.
The Charter Arms has a really small set of grips (wood). My standard load (358477 Hollow-Point with 6.2gr of HS-6) was accurate in the S&W 642 and the Charter Arms both. The barrels are too short for me to measure twist. All the holes in the target were straight on and were more accurate. The same exact load was tried in the Charter Arms. I theorized that the twist was too slow for the length of the bullet. Interestingly, my target load (358395 Hollow-Base bullet with 2.8gr of Bullseye) was inaccurate in my S&W 642. Single action shooting was actually pretty good. The double action pull was excessively heavy, so double action shooting was not very accurate. In very good condition except the bluing is turning plum. Picked one up cheap a while back and just got around to shooting it. It was made in the 1975-1976 era, so mid-production run.
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