UPDATE:

I purchased a 1980 6 1/2” nickle P&R Model 29-2 Saturday. My favorite iteration of a Smith & Wesson .44 Magnum.

The finish is perfect except for some cloudy streaks here and there that look like it was stored with some sort of solvent still left on it - black powder solvent, maybe. Three hours going over the whole gun, side plate off and back on again, Simichrome, REN wax, the whole works. It will not come off sadly..

So I’m going to shoot it until November, then clean it, pull the stocks off and send it to Ford’s to be renickled. It will come back looking like new again, just as my .41 did, 3-4 months later, and I can resight it back in if it needs in come Spring. It will give me something o look forward to.

So I’m standing behind my earlier statement. You can rely on them to do a good job.