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Post by AxeHandle on Jul 13, 2022 13:34:19 GMT -5
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Post by AxeHandle on Jul 13, 2022 13:34:32 GMT -5
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Post by AxeHandle on Jul 13, 2022 13:34:47 GMT -5
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Post by AxeHandle on Jul 13, 2022 13:35:00 GMT -5
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Post by AxeHandle on Jul 13, 2022 13:35:11 GMT -5
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Post by AxeHandle on Jul 13, 2022 13:35:24 GMT -5
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Post by AxeHandle on Jul 13, 2022 13:35:37 GMT -5
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Post by AxeHandle on Jul 13, 2022 13:35:49 GMT -5
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Post by AxeHandle on Jul 13, 2022 13:36:02 GMT -5
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Post by AxeHandle on Jul 13, 2022 13:36:19 GMT -5
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cdf41
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Post by cdf41 on Jul 13, 2022 13:39:04 GMT -5
Man that's nice!
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Post by rvolvr on Jul 14, 2022 9:33:39 GMT -5
Mr. Handle: If I may ask, what do the liners in the Presentation Box look like? The thin blue foam coverings are notorious for disintegrating over time, literally turning to a sticky mush. I have an early no-dash, pinned, which shipped in Dec 1980. The liners were toast when I bought it, but the vac-formed substrates were intact. After cleaning up the goo, I sent them off to be re-covered by a gentleman on another forum, who very artfully covers them with a "near-to-S&W-blue" felt, at a most agreeable price. He also does the styrofoam style substrates. The felt looks great, and will last much longer than I will.
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Post by ezekiel38 on Jul 14, 2022 14:59:00 GMT -5
Should be a 6", but with S&W you never know.
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Post by AxeHandle on Jul 14, 2022 15:39:08 GMT -5
Haven't opened the case... Might look good. Might not. I'll try to remember to look.
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Post by bradshaw on Jul 14, 2022 22:03:32 GMT -5
Should be a 6", but with S&W you never know. ***** Smith & Wesson presented me a Model 629 at the first International Revolver Championship. Came with a finely serrated Combat Trigger. Width of the Combat Trigger is between narrow and Target Trigger. At presentation the revolver showed the roughest action I’d felt on an S&W... A factory mechanic made it smooth as cream. I’d been told the M-629 would mark introduction of 6-inch barrel----and the end of 6-1/2”----on .44 Magnums. Roy Jinks made the presentation on the podium. Later, at a visit to the factory, I suggested a small lake we should swim, wearing 629’s. Glad he didn’t take me up on it, as Roy went to college as a swimmer. Asked which sight I would prefer, I selected the spheric McGivern gold bead. Should have selected the flat-with-light-bevel Call bead. Nevertheless, the square corners of the Patridge blade allow for exact shooting with the McGivern. The revolver came with 6" drop forged barrel, broach rifled with 1:20” twist. Medium 11-degree forcing cone. As I recall, the barrel was pinned. Cylinder countersunk for rims. Hammer & trigger case hardened carbon steel, flash chromed. (S&W’s drop forged stainless hammers & triggers weren’t hard enough, especially to hold single action; lesson learned on .38/.357’s.) Told at the time (fall 1980) the first 100 or so guns would have the serrated Combat Trigger, after which all Combat Triggers would be smooth. Stainless steel guns were exotica in 1980. Whatever Model 629’s and Ruger Redhawks entered circulation by early 1981 did so quite inflated. The first 629’s came in 6-inch only, just as the first Redhawks came in 7-1/2” only. David Bradshaw |
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