Tell me I'm crazy.

Klein Helmer

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Hi fellas,

Helmer again. Before I get started I just wanted to offer my thanks once more for all of the informative responses many of you offered in my previous thread.

Anyway, I'm hoping I'm just being paranoid here, but I need my mind to be put at rest with regard to a revolver I recently purchased.

I was at the gun shop the other day, and saw a nice stainless steel N frame 629. (I already have one, but this one had a different barrel length and I've got to say, I only recently got into guns but this stuff is addicting.)

I was going to buy it on the spot, but had left my plastic at home. I wanted the piece though, so I gave them a few hundred bucks in cash and had them box it up and put it in the back.

They had me handle the gun, and verify some small numbers on the gun. Anyway, the problem is this: On the ride over, I had been handling some old, gritty change in my cup holder. I'm not going to be able to get back to the store fore a while, and I'm worried that I may have transmitted some matter onto the barrel that could rust, corrode, or otherwise compromise the durability/quality of the gun.

Like I said, I am brand new to all of this, so I hope I'm just being paranoid. It is making me anxious though to the point of not wanting the thing anymore.

What are your thoughts?
 
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The gun is stainless steel, I doubt that unless you really rubbed something in the finish, that there would be a problem. Call them and ask them to inspect it and wipe it down. Welcome to the wonderful world of S&W addiction.
 
I think your gun will be fine. In my experience with stainless steel guns it takes a lot more than some fingerprints to rust them. What rusts them is repeated perspiration that sits on the gun under grips etc. But the process takes some time and neglect. Chances are the shop wiped the gun down before they put it away but in any case it should be fine.

Bill
 
If you think you like those ugly stainless guns, you're gonna go head over heels when you discover the beauty of a blued revolver! :D


Seriously, I'm sure your 629 will be just fine.
Welcome to your new Smith & Wesson addiction and welcome to the Forum.
 
Ok, you're crazy. It'll be fine.

The gun is stainless steel, I doubt that unless you really rubbed something in the finish, that there would be a problem. Call them and ask them to inspect it and wipe it down. Welcome to the wonderful world of S&W addiction.

I think your gun will be fine. In my experience with stainless steel guns it takes a lot more than some fingerprints to rust them. What rusts them is repeated perspiration that sits on the gun under grips etc. But the process takes some time and neglect. Chances are the shop wiped the gun down before they put it away but in any case it should be fine.

Bill

Thanks, guys.

I'll give them a call tomorrow and see if they can have a look/wipe it down. They didn't do that before putting it away, so it's already been sitting in its case, as is, for a while now. That being the case, you guys still think I'm OK?

The guns I like/buy are moderately expensive, so I want to be sure to take good care of them. The last thing I would want would be to have created some undetectable, slow burning structural issue that could literally blow up in my face.


 
If you think you like those ugly stainless guns, you're gonna go head over heels when you discover the beauty of a blued revolver! :D


Seriously, I'm sure your 629 will be just fine.
Welcome to your new Smith & Wesson addiction and welcome to the Forum.

I'm glad you think so.

Thanks for the welcome and I will be sure to into blued revolvers!
 

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