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Interesting that the OP specifies interest in the Bulldog, and so many come back suggesting alternatives that weigh almost twice as much.

I have an early '80s 3" Bulldog that holds under 2" at 25 yards. No plans to part with it. But how the current company's work compares, I don't know. I looked at a number of them at the last NRA Annual Meeting's gun show, and the line seems to be going strong. It's still an economical gun, and if you think it's what you want, buy one with the idea that if it's not satisfactory and you sell it, you won't lose a lot of money. That's better than dropping two or three times as much on something you later decide isn't as good a fit for your purposes and costs you more to make a switch.

Jelly Bryce said the secret of his shooting ability came from being able to make out the gray streak from muzzle to target of the modestly paced 44 Special and used that as feedback for his style of point shooting. I'm now pretty well glued to Cooper's Modern Technique, but back before I first went to Gunsite, I played a little with point shooting just to see what's what. For that purpose, I used a very light load consisting of Hornady 240-grain SWCs driven by 3.9 grains of Bullseye that loafed along at something just over 500 fps, IIRC. But you could glimpse the flight path of these airgun velocity rounds. These days, you could give some cast bullets a fluorescent yellow powder coat so you could see them going faster than that. It might be fun just to try if I ever got some time to kill.