New 629 Mountain Gun
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interested to hear your experience. I HAD an order in with my gun peddler when the .357 version was first announced. I added a .45 Colt and .22 LR to the order but have since pushed pause on all of them due to reports of very poor QC. I would love to get them but I would be PO'd if any of them needed to go back to S&W due to easily identifiable issues that should have been caught prior to shipping. For now I am in a holding pattern until I read some (many) first hand accounts of great experiences.
My 629 MG had to go back to S&W to fix a problem with the trigger. Got it back and it works fine. The .357 MG has been trouble free and shoots great.
No malfunctions. It did seem a little stiff.
My 920 fps 44 Spl. handloads were very accurate. My 1180 fps. 44 mag handloads had mediocre accuracy. I used Power Pistol and some very old 240 gr. hard cast swc's. The lube on some of the bullets was a little uneven. I will relube or melt them down and try again.
My 920 fps 44 Spl. handloads were very accurate. My 1180 fps. 44 mag handloads had mediocre accuracy. I used Power Pistol and some very old 240 gr. hard cast swc's. The lube on some of the bullets was a little uneven. I will relube or melt them down and try again.
Its a fine handgun, I wasn't in love with it. I did not care for the round butt frame and asked John Culina if he could make a conversion round to square. He did and they may be the first ones he did. I still did not care for the recoil and sent it off for a quadra-port job by Magnaport. That worked real well but made the thing so damned noisy I really lost interest in it. I traded it off to someone on this site for a very nice Hi-Power, great trade...never met a Hi-Power I didn't like.
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Short lug, tapered barrel, close to the original 4" 29. The hardwood grip is elegant, but covers the curved backstrap. That makes the reach too long for me. Just looking for now. My 4" 29-8 will do me.
I am a big fan of the slab side 5 inch 627PC. Not so much the ones with the lock. I ordered one as soon as I had money in hand as they had just announced the change to the lock. I had hoped to get one in the pipeline without the lock, but it didn't happen. The one I did get was a an excellent gun and was very accurate. That has been about 25 years ago now! Eventually, I picket up a couple of 627PC guns without the lock and a 2 5/8 without the lock. All were excellent. I recently sold one to a friend.
It would be nice if someone did a poll so we can get an idea as to the extent of the problems
Your Culina round butt to square butt conversion grips are NOT the 1st ones he has ever made...for what it's worth he has been making them for many years now...I know because I have bought many sets of them from him...Roger
hkcavalier
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I think we're mixing up the original late '80s/early '90s run with the new IL-less guns that came out this year.
Roger, When I asked Jennifer if it was something John was capable of doing back in 2012 she had me talk to him. I am aware of the fact that it is something that is now offered on their website. They are special to me in that I originally bought them for that first run of Mountain Revolver I had received from an uncle, they were also the first of more than a few stocks from the Culinas. I later picked up a Model 24-3 Lew Horton 44 Special which was also round butt framed. I traded off the Mountain Revolver and put them on the 24-3 where they still are. Thank you for correcting my statement of owning the FIRST set of Culina round to square butt conversions. Just one of the great things about this website, the wealth of information that is so willingly shared.
Rimfires can be tricky. I have a GP100-22 that had a choice between a very heavy trigger pull or misfires in DA mode. Deburring , a spring swap and adding a washer to the mainspring strut solved it. It was a bit of an ordeal.
sparkyvega
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Mine has been without issue. I really appreciate the brass bead sight!
The stocks look great on yours! Are these the OE Bearhugs?
The stocks look great on yours! Are these the OE Bearhugs?
My buddy has a 24 in 4in 44 spcl. Same barrel contour as a mountain gun. Thing chews your hand up. Wondered on other calibers. I havent shot one in any other caliber. Just wondering.
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