Here's my 6" 29-2 purchased new in 1980. I was too young to buy it so my mom signed for it for me! It was my first new Smith, and my first .44 mag.
It used to get a steady diet of the Keith load of a 240 SWC over 22 grains of 2400, ( I was young, and if it wasn't a maxed out load you were wimping out!) As a result of this the gun has been back to Springfield for overhauls three times and the factory reblued it twice, all at absolutely no charge. I won't say anything bad about Smith CS.
In the mid eighties it was the first gun that I sent to Andy Cannon for a deluxe tuning, got the first set of Hogue stocks I ever bought, and the first Millett sight I ever bought. These days it does have some end shake so it doesn't get shot a whole lot, and when it does, it's just with reduced loads. It's a keeper and I'll never part with it.