Who likes 5" Ns....
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crsides
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1931 3rd model 44 that went to Wolf and Klar for the Houston PD. Marked HPD 38 on back strap.
Charlie
Stroupdr
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5" 29-2 Shipped June 1963
I did that conversion. Roy Jinks, the S&W historian, advised that the M544 frame wasn't heat treated the same as a M29.
Accuracy with .44 Magnum cowboy loads was fine.
Harkrader
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I need a lot more money.
akjaeger
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rbrbrb6
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Just 2two 5" N frames in the safe right now. First is a Bowen custom model 58 converted to 45 Colt with a model 25 barrel. The second is a 27-2 that Jim Stroh converted to 44 Special.
The last gun now has a nice set of Kurac exhibition walnut magnas for stocks.
The last gun now has a nice set of Kurac exhibition walnut magnas for stocks.
TexasRider
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I really like N frames.
While I don't have any 5 inch, I do have them in mind - but it always seems the 6.5 and some 6 inch find a way to get to my house before I see a 5 inch.
While I don't have any 5 inch, I do have them in mind - but it always seems the 6.5 and some 6 inch find a way to get to my house before I see a 5 inch.
amazingflapjack
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I have a 627-0 5 1/2 inch for sale on GB right now. It marvelous, but it is time to sell it.
hkcavalier
US Veteran
Just the one, right now. 629-3.
crsides
US Veteran, SWCA Member, Absent Comrade
Does 5.5" count.
Charlie
Charlie
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BCDWYO
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Here are a few: (sorry I got excited about the 5" and forgot we were restricted to Ns so you get to see one L-frame as a bonus!)
27-2
610
686-5
627-5 (with its snubbie brother)
27-2
610
686-5
627-5 (with its snubbie brother)
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BCD...that isn't a snubbie...it is a "Stubbie".....
This is the best shooting .44 Magnum I ever owned... My best friend bought this first year of production 629 as a 6". He really wanted a 5" and had it cut back...unfortunately it didn't come out as planned and just looked like someone had whacked off the end of the barrel flat and stuck the front sight back on..so it never got shot for about 20 years.
He complained to me about it one day and I tld him to call the factory and have it restored to 6". He did but asked if they had any 5" barrels around. Smith said they had one Classic barrel left over from a special run for a distributor that was Mag-Na-Ported....he drove over to the factory and they screwed it on while he waited.
...but he ended up not liking the underlug wanting a true 5". Well he fell in lust with a 4" 629-3 Mountain Gun I had so we traded. It was the nicest shooting .44 I had ever owned. A couple of years later, 2010, my friend died of a heart attack. We also had been shooting with his nephew, a very fine young man who had just graduated from the same same college that my friend and I had in 1975. The following year while we were hunting he mentioned he wanted to get a .44...and I offered him his uncle's gun for the original price of $350.00. He now carries it each hunting season in a Simply Rugged holster....
...so this is probably the only no- 5" P&R 629 Classic you will ever see....as they never existed...
Bob
This is the best shooting .44 Magnum I ever owned... My best friend bought this first year of production 629 as a 6". He really wanted a 5" and had it cut back...unfortunately it didn't come out as planned and just looked like someone had whacked off the end of the barrel flat and stuck the front sight back on..so it never got shot for about 20 years.
He complained to me about it one day and I tld him to call the factory and have it restored to 6". He did but asked if they had any 5" barrels around. Smith said they had one Classic barrel left over from a special run for a distributor that was Mag-Na-Ported....he drove over to the factory and they screwed it on while he waited.
...but he ended up not liking the underlug wanting a true 5". Well he fell in lust with a 4" 629-3 Mountain Gun I had so we traded. It was the nicest shooting .44 I had ever owned. A couple of years later, 2010, my friend died of a heart attack. We also had been shooting with his nephew, a very fine young man who had just graduated from the same same college that my friend and I had in 1975. The following year while we were hunting he mentioned he wanted to get a .44...and I offered him his uncle's gun for the original price of $350.00. He now carries it each hunting season in a Simply Rugged holster....
...so this is probably the only no- 5" P&R 629 Classic you will ever see....as they never existed...
Bob
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BCDWYO
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This was a very nice 99% 27-2.
Untill i sold it to a friend
He took it to the range, no problem there
but a nosy "nogoods.o.b." dropped it on the asphalt
Where is the "dislike" button for that story!?? Only good thing is he dinged it up AFTER he paid you for it! Still a tragic story!
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It wasn't my friend who dropped it.
But he allmost ripped a new one on the one who did dropp it.
Mr "whatshisname" was told not to touch the revolver, but.. oops... sorry...
Yea.. right
...almost forgot I had this one...and at the time actually had two...
2001 627-7 Performance Center Jerry Miculek 5.25".45 ACP for Camfour Distributors. Sold one to my best friend who still has it in his .45 ACP revolver collection and the other on GunBroker for a lot more than I paid for it.
I've never had "seller's remorse" but if I ever did this would be the one I miss the most. Only sold it because I rarely shoot anything revolver wise that isn't .41...so why not make someone who is going to use it happy. My friend calls this one the one that goes with him....so I'll never see it back again...
2001 627-7 Performance Center Jerry Miculek 5.25".45 ACP for Camfour Distributors. Sold one to my best friend who still has it in his .45 ACP revolver collection and the other on GunBroker for a lot more than I paid for it.
I've never had "seller's remorse" but if I ever did this would be the one I miss the most. Only sold it because I rarely shoot anything revolver wise that isn't .41...so why not make someone who is going to use it happy. My friend calls this one the one that goes with him....so I'll never see it back again...
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