Project 629

[Andy Taylor]

Well I dropped my project off at the gunsmith yesterday.
A bone stock 629-3 Classic 6" will become a snubby.

It will have a current production 3" barrel installed.

Wilson Combat spring kit installed.

Chamfer chambers.

Target trigger replaced with smooth combat trigger.

Target hammer narrowed and rounded.

Bead blast the finish.

To top it off I have a set of factory combats (round butt) waiting for it at home.

I am trying to decide if I want to get a Cylinder & Slide Extreme Duty rear sight (as seen on the new Night Guard revolvers) or keep the factory sight. What do you guys and gals think?

I hope to have a camera to post pics once the project is complete.

The 6" barrel and any other excess parts will be sold here on the forum once the project is complete, to help defray the expense of this undertaking.

 

[Andy Taylor]

Well I dropped my project off at the gunsmith yesterday.
A bone stock 629-3 Classic 6" will become a snubby.

It will have a current production 3" barrel installed.

Wilson Combat spring kit installed.

Chamfer chambers.

Target trigger replaced with smooth combat trigger.

Target hammer narrowed and rounded.

Bead blast the finish.

To top it off I have a set of factory combats (round butt) waiting for it at home.

I am trying to decide if I want to get a Cylinder & Slide Extreme Duty rear sight (as seen on the new Night Guard revolvers) or keep the factory sight. What do you guys and gals think?

I hope to have a camera to post pics once the project is complete.

The 6" barrel and any other excess parts will be sold here on the forum once the project is complete, to help defray the expense of this undertaking.

 

[photoman]

Sounds like a nice project. I would stick with the factory adjustable sight.

 

[Snapping Twig]

Sounds good! Here's mine, it was an 8 3/8" 629-2 until I did what you're doing.

Trijicon blade in the factory rear sight and a replacement Trijicon blade in the pinned front mount on an original LH 3" barrel.

Predator package, twin ball bearing detents on the crane for solid lock-up and 11 degree bevel forcing cone for lead, crowned muzzel and Mag-Na-Ported.

Bobbed target hammer, smoothed target trigger, round butt, hard chromed trigger and hammer.

Master action job, butter smooth in DA and SA with total reliability.

 

[ENH]

You are making a combat - self defense gun, so I would go with the C&S rear matched with a standard dot front, like S&W uses on the Night Guard series. I did this with my 325PD long before the NG came out and I could not be happier.

 

[Joni_Lynn]

Nice looking revolvers gentlemen.

 

[winter1857]

Sounds awesome to me.

I have wanted to do that with a long barreled Model 25 .45 Colt but I haven't found the courage to cut up an S&W.

John Gallagher has mutilated a couple of Rugers for me but that's an entirely different animal.

 

[okie john]

Send me an email with a price on the 6" barrel. I've got a 629 that may need a new tube.


Okie John

 

[Andy Taylor]

Winter-- .45 Colt would have been my first choice, but I decided that .44's, being cheaper and easier to find, would be the platform that I would use. The gun may see a few magnums now and then, but it will mostly see .44 Specials.

Okie John--one the barrel comes back from the smith, I will give you first crack at it. I need to research what these are going for, and confirm it's condition, just in case of any damage is done in it's removal, before I state a price. I don't anticipate any damage, but I would hate it if something happened, and I had promised something I can't deliver.