Just what I have been looking for. It's a beaut. How do you like the balance with the 5" barrel? If you ever get tired of playing with it, bring it over to my sand box. LOL I am looking for the model you have with the full lug. I have a Model 17 with a full lug barrel that I want to either have the bbl. cut back to 5" or get a new 5" barrel installed and keep the original. My project after that is to find a blued Model 586 full lug. "So many toys and so little time.

I have a 629 Light Weight Hunter with a 7.5 inch barrel. It's stainless steel. I am hanging up my antlers this year after 56 years of deer hunting and the last 15 or so hunting with a handgun. We have plenty of feral hogs to hunt so I going to continue to do that and calling up some coyotes.