Let's talk Mountain Guns

[MB3845]

The one I let get away. Miss it to this day.

 

[Professor Cassidy]

45 Colt and 357 Magnum

 

[Buford57]

Since this one has revived I can do something I couldn't the first time around: post a picture of my 629-2 Mountain Revolver.





I am in the process of simplifying the number of calibers I stock and load and this is the last .44. I should let it go, but haven't had the nerve yet.

 

[Retired W4]

As long as we are talking Mountain Guns, what would a 29-8 44 mag go for in VG to EC, with all the stuff?

 

[22hipower]

Where I shop I think the package would be priced $1k-$1200 and would sell around $1k; maybe more on one of the big auction sites. I paid $700 for this one about a year ago; no box but came with a holster and extra set of Pachmayer grips.

Jeff
SWCA #1457
https://flic.kr/p/2ne7jqX https://www.flickr.com/photos/194934231@N03/

 

[Retired W4]

Thanks. The one I saw had both grips and a Galco Holster.

 

[UncleEd]

RevolverGuy.com latest
feature is on the
Mountain Gun.

 

[10mmauto]

Mountain gun in .41.

 

[5Wire]

Here's the one I had:

 

[bronco45]

Here's my 629-2

Karl Sokol tuned

 

[grice]

I also hungered for a blue steel Mountain Gun at one time. This 25-13 is the result. I apologize for PC hole in the side, but that's the only kind they had then.

John

That hole doesn't bother me and I don't bother it! I read somewhere the mountain gun can be special ordered, truth or hogwash?

 

[honu8019]

Thanks for Thread

I've been trying to learn about the Mountain Gun and this thread was informative.

 

[StrawHat]

…My favorite "Mountain Gun" is the one S&W never built. A blue steel MG in 45 ACP…
My often seen (and shot) M25-2 with a shortened Model 1950 tapered barrel, round butt, action and trigger tuned, fine bead blast and then blued. S&W factory RB "Combat" stocks, bought used and abused, refinished by me.

Dave…

…I couldn't find a Mountain Gun, so I had one made…

I did the same thing, sort of… Way back in the 80s, I was an LEO and really liked the idea of a 4", tapered barrel, N frame for a duty revolver. (Blame Elmer Keith!). By that time I was over the need for magnums and decided the perfect packing revolver would have the above features and chamber the 45 ACP cartridge. I searched in vain for a 4", Model 1950. What to do? I built one.

I had a 4", Model 28-2, so I shipped the barrel off for boring and rifling. I had on hand a cylinder for a Model 1950 or Model 1955 so I installed it. I rounded the grip frame by removing all the metal that was proud of a pair of K frame, round butt Magnas and changed the frame lug. When the barrel got back, I installed it and adjusted the gap. A little fussing with the front sight and I had my revolver.

It was the second 4" tapered barrel, ACP, revolver I had, the first was this 1917 I customized.

Several more 4", tapered barreled, 45 ACP, N frames have come along since then!

Kevin