the key lock, plain and simple.

if they would just get rid of it I'd be willing to atleast give them a shot as nothing is made the way it used to be, although the ones from the 1950's till 1985 do feel much better to me than the ones made from 1985 till 2000.

and its not proper milled steel, their using the same thing ruger does now, that powdered cast steel process or whatever its called and I can feel a difference in the weight and not in a good way because of it and thus the old ones just feel superior to me.

and I did actually pick up a m29 classic like that one at a gunshop about a year ago and I'd still take my 1979/1980 29-2 over it any day, plus it was about 300 cheaper too.