Charter Arms Boxer 53620 38 Special

The revolver works as designed and is reasonably smooth and more accurate than expected. It is a reliable utilitarian piece. Despite the shortest sight radius and lightest weight, the Boxer was the most accurate revolver in slow fire.

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Todd Woodard
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The Boxer 38 Special is a workmanlike revolver with good ratings. While all the revolvers offered good control, the Boxer was soft shooting for its light weight.
The revolver tested is the new Charter Arms Boxer 38 Special. This is an outgrowth of the Charter Arms Bulldog revolver. Charter Arms has offered six-shot 32-caliber revolvers on the five-shot 38 frame and five-shot 32 Magnum revolvers, as well as various rimfire models.
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  1. Todd,

    You wrote “The ejector rod doesn’t lock up under the barrel; the only lock up is in the recoil-shield side of the ejector. ” This is not correct. The ejector rod locks into the frame forward of the cylinder. So the cylinder is held at the front and at the back. Before Charter had ejector shrouds this was easier to see, but can still be seen in the photo. This is a better design that the S&W where the forward lock is at the end of the ejector rod.

    Charter’s web site states “Cylinder lock up is in three places instead of two: cylinder stop and ejector rod collar for additional safety, strength and cylinder-to- barrel lock up.” although I’m not sure what they mean by this.