I've been eyeing this gun for a while now. I decided to "gift" myself for my b'day. Shoot, who knows better than me what I want, right? I love a long barreled 629 and had to add this to the family. This is my newest S&W gun purchase and first PC gun. I'll take it to the range tomorrow, dirty it up and see how she performs. Dirty pics to follow.I think I'm gonna have fun with this one.
Tin Knocker

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Happy Birthday!
Jim

Wowzers!!

Congrats! & Happy Bday!

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sw282 has been having a big time with one of those at the monthly IHMSA matches. Think he killed the first factory supplied reddot, but the second? It may be S&W has swapped reddot suppliers, though:


Hard to tell without expanding the photo, but the optics seem to be different. Pretty sure that's the warranty S&W PC reddot.
Hopefully, sw282 will chime in directly.

Ought to be a good long range platform. (I've been eyeballing one of the fluted barrel 629 PCs for some time, but keep getting distracted by other shinies! Plus, there's the other 629s...)

"My That's a big one."

Vette--l took mine to Patrick SC this past Saturday where my nephew was introduced to revolvers...No stranger to REALLY big stuff he has caught the BUG. 6,000+rds thru mine so far. The UTG red dot gave up @ 1760rds. lt went back to Smith&Wesson, replaced free of charge. New UTG now has 3000+ on it..lts a $31 site off Midway.. l know because l bought a back-up UTG while waiting for the broken replacement. l posted the Sat shoot thread below.

Family fun at ''IHMSA Field Pistol Match Today

That is awesome
Happy birthday brother
I think your gonna like it...

I got a go click on your no dash thread

0ne irritation has been a lead buildup on the brake. Caused by shooting 900fps cast bullet loads, it is unsightly. Since unsuccessfully trying to clean the blobs off, l simply BLOW them away with a few MAGNUM loads.. Cleaning the brake l unknowingly added a little BLING to the gun...A piece of crocus cloth wrapped around the brake while trying to get the lead off has made it shiny like the polished stainless cylinder. l give the cylinder a little extra attention by hitting it with a dab of Flitz while cleaning...The barrel is a two piece affair.. Lothar/Walther liner and outer shroud secured by the brake. lt acts as a tensioned/torqued nut too.

I have the older Lew Horton model of the Magnum Hunter. Scary accurate and fun to shoot. SA trigger is about as close to hair as you can get. Still just use the irons on mine. Probably have about 5000 rounds thru it so far and am very happy with it. I did change out the stock grips and replaced them with the Model 500 impact Absorbing Hogues.

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This one is cool too

I know I'm digging mine

My first Model 29 has an 8 3/8" barrel. It was from the Dirty Harry days, when 29's were almost impossible to get. I decided I wanted to scope it. There were no scope mounts available, that I was aware of, so I contracted with a local precision machine shop (with an introduction) to mount a rail on top. I even had to furnish gunsmith taps and drills. Two friends decided to "ride along" and we did theirs, also. It was totally successful. I mounted the scope between the sights with detachable mounts. If the weather turns bad while hunting, the iron sights are still zero'd:



I have taken several deer with this set up and it WORKS. Off a rest, I can keep most shots on a playing card at 100 yards.

Then I happened to run onto a real deal in a PC "Light Hunter", very similar to the O.P. Smith really did a nice job on this one. The scope (or Red Dot) is mounted between the sights and the sight base is set into the rib giving a VERY strong recoil lug (scopes can be a problem with the heavy recoiling .44 Magnum). I'm very happy with this one, too:


The O.P. can be happy that he has made a REALLY good choice in a hunting handgun.

FWIW
Dale53

Those Ahrends make your gun "pop" there ironworker! Did you ever step out your back door and shoot it? If you haven't, you ought to. I just got back home from the range with mine. Dirty pics coming!!

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I really like what you did to the 29. Nice job! And yes, I'm Really happy I got this one!

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I just got home from giving the new one a test drive. Man what a sweetheart! I went through 200 rnds of 240 gr FHJ loaded at 1450 FPS. I was VERY impressed with this gun! I didn't know how much the brake would affect the recoil but it calmed it down like a lamb. (maybe a mad lamb) It felt more like the 500 push than the 44 mag snap. The trigger in dbl action was unbelievably smooth and single action broke like glass. It took me a minute to zero in the green dot but got it fine tuned and was putting in decent groups at 25 yds (indoor range). I need to get outdoors with my glasses and stretch her out. Here are the obligatory dirty pics.

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l like seeing ''dirty Smith pictures''...
Shooting them is lots more fun than fondling them

75Vette
It's a lot dirtier now !! Sorry I didn't have time to help you more today. My spotting duties were promised to others.

No biggy! Man, I had a great time today with all of y'all! Everybody made me feel right at home. I appreciate all the tips and hey! I hit the 100yd rams a coupla times! I called my BIL and a good friend and told them they HAVE to get up to Gainesville next month and take part. I hope to see all of y'all again.
Mark

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Missed ya iron worker!

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That lron Head could at least invite us Southern boys up for Spring "BAR" Season

That looks great, nice find. Now go tear up some targets

This just might cost me some money. All really, really nice.

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Wow! Who is that handsome guy!! Thanks for posting the pic. I had a great day. Y'all made me feel right at home. I hope to see everyone again in April!!

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Looks like you boys had some fun!
What did you think of it tin knocker?
You hooked?

I am! What a great bunch of guys. I shot three rounds and saw my score improve each time. Several good tips and coaching helped me out. ( A plate full of killer smoked pork didn't hurt either!) It sure was a lot more rewarding than punching holes in paper. When you hear BING and see that target fall it gives ya a big fuzzy. Do you have matches like this up in Maine?

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Oh yeah, HAPPY BIRTHDAY 75Vette. Gotta love those C3s

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I have started lusting after one of these if someone comes upon one let me know.

Happy to have met you in person, 75Vette! Ron and Sherri put on an excellent match.

kdiver58 and I usually spot for each other, and he also spots for his wife. It's an important job, especially if you aren't quite on target! Fortunately, Ron was there to get you going, he's a far better coach than I.

kdiver58 and I also are still in load development stage, still learning even after years shooting.

BTW, those Field Pistol targets looked like Smallbore targets at the end of the day. (Last shooter on the line, as it turned out.)

Cameras were MIA, so no pics, sorry!

I was thinking you'd would.
There used to be shoots like that all over the place in New England, they started going away in the 90's. I think there's still one up on the coast somewhere? not sure about NH but I'm thinking no. Plenty of combat and cowboy? shoots but it's not same. I used to enjoy the precision and intensity of big bore silhouette. I've still got most of a set of targets.

There's an active IHMSA club shooting near Gordonsville, VA.

Link below for their schedule:

IHMSA Forum

We have folk come in from neighboring states to shoot, so even if you aren't especially close to Gordonsville, there may be a shooter close to you who does attend. Gunny road trip!