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It was a Brownell's branded mainspring, it was about $6. The other spring that was available was a Wolf spring for $15. I noticed if I backed the strain screw about halfway out the trigger worked fine, but that didn't seem right so I went back to the original mainspring. I bent it a bit back...

I was getting light strikes on my heavy barrel 10-6 so I ordered a new mainspring from brownells. Sideplate popped off easily enough, changed out the old mainspring with the new one, re-installed the sideplate and tightened up the strain screw. Weird problem I have now is sometimes the trigger...

I've heard you should keep the heavy hitters to a minimum with the earlier 629's, but I find the Ruger more comfortable to shoot anyhow. Here's my Ruger, square and blocky like a Jeep: And my 629-1, which doesn't look as beefy but it's as sexy as a Porsche: I usually stick with light loads...

I have a box of 200gr XTP bullets I'm anxious to try out as well. But in the meantime I've been shooting 240gr LSWCs over 7.0-7.5gr Unique out of a 2.5" 629-1, ported with wood grips (because they look nice :D). Very accurate at 7-10yds and easy to shoot.

Picked that one up from Tanner's? There was that exact model there a couple weeks ago, it was very nice!!

It's a magnaport. Whoever did the work on the gun went all out on it (chopped barrel, grips cut to K-frame size, action job) but personally I would've skipped the magnaporting, I don't think it serves much purpose on such short barrels, it stills kicks as hard as my other snubbie, a Ruger SRH...

I've been working on some up close and personal defense loads for my 44 mag snubbie. Shot 100 rounds with loads of 7.0-7.5 gr Unique today. 13.5gr of Blue Dot was brutal to shoot out of this gun. But I could've easily shot 100 more rounds of this load of Unique! Great accuracy at 7-10...

Thanks for all the advice, I'll work on my technique when dumping out the cases and I do have a bottle of Unique I haven't touched in awhile so I'll give that a go and save the Blue Dot for my 44 mag :D

Hello all, took my 10-6 out to the range today and shot about 80 rounds of handloads through it. Great accuracy overall, only problem is it would bind up every 20 or so rounds. A quick wipe down resolved things immediately until the next 20 shots fired. It doesn't seem to take much powder...

I just came from the range today shooting a CA Police Undercover snubbie and was wishing my S&W snubs in .38 spcl were 6 shot as well. Well someone was listening because I came across this S&W 15-3 snubbie for $300 in my local shop and had to get it :D The barrel and cylinder have taken a...

I've owned a 29-3 3", a 629-1 2.5" and a Ruger SRH Alaskan. Both the S&W's had wood grips and were really not all that pleasant to shoot. The Ruger on the hand, while not the looker like the other 2 is just plain fun to shoot with the beefy stock rubber grips that has the gel pad insert. I...

I'm not sure how the .454 compares but I've had someone in the next lane over at my indoor range shooting off a S&W .500 and it really was intense :eek: Even with ear plugs under my ear muffs I could feel the concussion blast from each shot! My .44 mag was a pea shooter by comparison :D and I...

A well used 28-2 that I just picked up

629-1 Just added these grips. Not the most perfect fit (grip was converted to K-frame) but looks a lot better than the rubber pachs :D

Thanks everyone, I appreciate all the great info! I really had no idea there could be that much attention to detail involved when determining an original or refinish :eek: