It went back 4 times? What for?? Did they seem to fix each problem?
4 times for two guns. Went like this.
Back once, for intermittent light strikes. Turned out there was enough cylinder endshake that I suspect it was assembled wrong to begin with.
Next two times, broken transfer bar.
At the third time in, Charter replaced the gun. That arrived in Nov. of last year.
In January of this year, the transfer bar on the new gun broke.
Each time the transfer bar broke, it broke in the same place (right below the wide "flag" at the top. It always looked like crystallized metal.
I dry fire a lot. After the first breakage, it was mostly with snap caps. "Carried a lot, shot a little" is not my style. The trigger area is a royal PITA to reassemble, requiring 3 hands and considerable strength.
Each time Charter was easy to deal with, covered shipping, and had the gun back to me promptly.
At that point, I didn't want to mess with it anymore. When the gun came back, I sold it locally, and put the money towards a S&W 642.