I was perusing some downtown Phoenix pawns on Friday and came across this guy, a 329 night guard in 44 magnum. I haven't seen many night guards in the recent years so I was interested right out the gate. Sub 3 inch barrel, scandium frame, 6 shot, an XS Dot Night Sight, and S&W Compac grips. Sure it has an IL but we will deal with that in a minute. Price? $850. It had the original box, paperwork, and spent casing. I offered $700, we danced and agreed upon $715 plus tax with a free box of Fiocchi 44 magnum 50 count. Not a smoking deal, but I'm happy about snagging this one.

I also plunged today and got an IL delete kit from JD at Original Precision here in Queen Creek AZ in black. I met him in person and he is an honest hard working veteran churning out a great product for an excellent price. He even gave me some pointers for installation which was a breeze with access to youtube. I wanted to give this product my thumbs up and recommend it for anyone looking for a very clean way to delete the IL on their K, L, and N frames.

Lastly, I decided to make a home made photo box with stuff I had laying around the house. I took a medium sized home depot box and followed some basic DIY intructions. Heavy white construction paper, white t shirt fabric, glue, tape, a straight edge and scissors are really all you need. For lighting I use a clamp on fixture with a 60w LED daylight bulb positioned above the box facing down through the fabric. I'm very happy with the results! Now onto the good stuff.

Sounds like a smokin deal to me! Congrats!

Looks great, I will have to try making a box like that, I always struggle to get good pics when I am trying to sell one and actually care about my photos

Congratulations!

I agree on the smokin' deal. It looks like you have the picture taking down too. The 329 would make a nice carry gun...with 44 specials! Congrats.

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Nice piece OP! J.D. is a good guy to deal with. I got one of his IL Deletes last week. Quality parts for sure and got here quick!

Nice looking revolver and seems like a good price to me.

Good photos with the homemade light box.

I think you will be happy, I LOVE mine!

Beautiful! You got a great deal. Would love to have a gun like that (to shoot .44 specials, of course).

I have one. My pet range load produces brisk recoil in that gun...7.5gr CSB1 under Xtreme 200gr RNFP. I don't care to discover what 240gr over H110 feels like.

I bought a329ng new in late 2012. It was a nice gun made a Big Bang at the range with 44 mags but I don't reload & at that time ammo was a little scarce & expensive so I sold it. It was sort of an impulse buy without regard for ammo cost. I changed over to 45 acp revolvers which were more practical for me.

One detsil on these guns that blows my mind is the full size target hammer spur. Just look at the lengths Smith went through to make the most carry friendly revolver possible: non-standard fixed & rounded sights, non-standard short barrel length, non-standard expensive light weight modern alloys. Using a stock small spur hammer would have been the easy part....

They could have used them on the Performance Center target models that have the goofy teardrop hammers instead, IMO.

I didn't understand the reasoning for having a Tritium Night Sight on the front but not on the back. Never worked for me so I started putting red ramps on my NG's instead.

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