629 no dash 4”… truck gun.. Model 28..

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First time I heard the term truck gun was on this site.
Someone mentioned a refinished polished highway patrolman I bought would make a good truck gun.
I recently put a couple of 2 though shims from Midway in it to cure the end shake. Worked great.
Unfortunately I had to, (and I mean HAD to) use grips along with the table vice to get the extractor rod unscrewed.
I had the leather on the vice and tightened that sucker as much as I could but I just kept slipping.
I finally put it in the vice with protective leather, AND got a pair of grips and a rubber glove to hold it and it came loose.. but it did ruin the end of the rod.
That said, I got a couple of new ones on eBay cheap enough.
I polished the rod down at the end to fit. Still needs a little more for a smooth functioning cylinder release.

With this said.. I'm eyeing a 629 no dash 4" intend to get fairly shortly.
The fellow whom I connected with on here says he has a couple.
One is a truck gun! 629 ND 4" collector item!
Wonder if anyone here has had any reason to ever pull their truck gun? That'd be for a different thread I guess, but I will post pics of the polished 28-2 highest patrolman soon enough.
I has been requested.
I have a new looking 28-2. Original finish. Locks up super tight.
A1 condish.
I like them both.
The polished one has an incorrect top strap on it.
Someone was trying to turn a 28 into a 27, but I like it.
Shoots great now, too.
Pics soon enough..

Too much text.. too much coffee..

Pinned and recessed or bust
 
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My 4" 629 No Dash wears grooveless Pachmayr Presentations and is fitted with front and rear night sights (so long hideous red ramp insert!). It was essentially unfired with wooden presentation case when I got it ~10 years ago. It is an EDC working gun while out and about on our Colorado foothills family compound- bear and cat central. They are too good of a gun to be relegated to safe queen status.
 
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Truck guns are a controversial subject around this forum. People feel that truck gun automatically means it stays in truck all the time, often unattended. I think this is fine in some scenarios. Big farm or ranch. Someone who lives in rural area and parks in a garage at night. My mind always goes to hunting season when I think truck gun. And I have a truck rifle and truck handgun. But they come indoors with me at the end of the day.
 
My "truck gun" is a Glock 19 that I bought new back around 2002 when I was flying for a very wealthy lady here in Atlanta. It was always with me in the jet and the Sikorsky. I used to leave it in my truck when I was not flying, with enough loaded magazines to sustain a minor fire fight. Now that I'm fully retired I bring it in at night.
 
Bald1 said:
Truck guns are a controversial subject around this forum. People feel that truck gun automatically means it stays in truck all the time, often unattended. I think this is fine in some scenarios. Big farm or ranch. Someone who lives in rural area and parks in a garage at night. My mind always goes to hunting season when I think truck gun. And I have a truck rifle and truck handgun. But they come indoors with me at the end of the day.
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A friend of mine has a Remington Nylon 66 under the front seat of his 1998 Ford F-150. He has a large ranch and a herd of cattle. Every so often he has to kill one of his cows. He does that with his Nylon 66. It's never been cleaned despite his owning it for 40+ years. It's been under the seat of countless pickups owned by Joe.

That's a truck gun.
 
For me my truck gun is one within easy reach while seat belted behind the wheel. Easier to get it in to action in a worse case scenario over the iwb pistol. It gets locked in the hidden hard mounted safe when I exit the truck.

I use a gun I know I can depend on, value be damned-just like my carry.
 
I visited my nephew one time,, and saw the worst condition Model 41 that there EVER was,,

I asked him what happened to it,,

He said he forgot it was under the seat of the truck for over two years,,
probably, most of those months with the windows down,,

He found the gun when he was trading in the truck,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,:eek:
 
The first Truck Guns I ever saw were 22s.
Later out West I saw a number of Lever 30-30s.
Guys who early on were horseback carried 30-30s then moved them to Pick-ups.
Have seen Bolt Centerfire rifles, including some MiLSURP.
 
THE PILGRIM said:
The first Truck Guns I ever saw were 22s.
Later out West I saw a number of Lever 30-30s.
Guys who early on were horseback carried 30-30s then moved them to Pick-ups.
Have seen Bolt Centerfire rifles, including some MiLSURP.
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My favorite old 30-30 is one I got in CA back in the 80s. It had made the transition from saddle scabbard to pick-up rack on a ranch up above the Carmel Valley.
 
Bald1 said:
Truck guns are a controversial subject around this forum. People feel that truck gun automatically means it stays in truck all the time, often unattended. I think this is fine in some scenarios. Big farm or ranch. Someone who lives in rural area and parks in a garage at night. My mind always goes to hunting season when I think truck gun. And I have a truck rifle and truck handgun. But they come indoors with me at the end of the day.
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Same here.........99.9% of the time my "truck gun"s whatever I have on or what I'm hunting with..........They come in at night.
In another world. The 60's thru the early 80's my Dad kept a single barrel 12 ga in the back window rack.....(remember those?) and a some birdshot and 00B's. Never locked his truck and most of the time his windows were down......NOBODY....Ever touched his gun.....Period!........When he died I took it to my lake house and it still has standing duty behind the bedroom door....I've fired it twice. To kill 2 armadillo's in the back yard....A cheap over 100 year old gun still standing guard.
 
Mike said:
Same here.........99.9% of the time my "truck gun"s whatever I have on or what I'm hunting with..........They come in at night.
In another world. The 60's thru the early 80's my Dad kept a single barrel 12 ga in the back window rack.....(remember those?) and a some birdshot and 00B's. Never locked his truck and most of the time his windows were down......NOBODY....Ever touched his gun.....Period!........When he died I took it to my lake house and it still has standing duty behind the bedroom door....I've fired it twice. To kill 2 armadillo's in the back yard....A cheap over 100 year old gun still standing guard.
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Mike, don't know if your Dad was from SC too, but when I was in High School in the 70's, during deer hunting season it was common to see a lever action .30-30 in the back window rack of pickup trucks in the school parking lot. And, strangely enough, doors would be unlocked and the windows down, IN A SCHOOL PARKING LOT! Granted, these trucks were usually parked in the "jock lot", a small lot right next to the school. Can you imagine if that happened today?:eek:

We didn't give sights like this a second thought, and respected people's property. Thinking back, it probably wasn't the best idea in the world, and I would guess that guns may have been stolen sometimes, but I don't have firsthand knowledge of that. Back then there weren't surveillance cameras everywhere either.

I'd bet out west, this was probably an everyday occurrence back then!
Larry
 
You must have grown up near me.

But, then I still see trucks with rifle racks with rifles in them around here and during hunting season it is even more common. I am quite sure there are plenty with pistols under the seat or in a console. I was at a second hand stored the other day and there was a guy in there wearing a single action with 45 cartridges in the belt loops and a sheath knife, while his approx 8 year old daughter was browsing around. I live in a different place than many people



Theft around here is pretty rare, but I added cable lock boxed in my car and truck
 
That rear gun rack got me a tongue lashing once and there was no gun in it. Back in 89 or 90 I had an F250 that I pulled my boat with. In that rack I had a broken sledgehammer handle. I used it to push boat to the side on trailer so that little speedometer fitting did not hit trailer bunk and break. It was a heavy boat. 20' cuddly cabin with Merc I/O. One evening I got pulled over by state trooper because I had a headlight out. I knew it was out but it happened on a Sunday evening. He looks at the handle and says "very nice" "what is that, your killing stick?". I was genuinely confused. I said what???? To which he replies "the axe handle tough guy". I said no, I use that to get my boat on trailer correctly. I guess he didn't expect a genuine response so quickly. He wrote me a ticket for headlight which was voided the next day after I fixed it. But I wonder did he pull me over for headlight or did he pull me over because of my "killing stick".
 
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