Shooting it just made the acquisition of it that much sweeter. But that wasn’t the case with this sleek, powerful and accurate. Now, when you build up high expectations for anything like I did for the Smith and Wesson model 29, the actual ownership and use can really be disappointing if things don’t go well. S&W Model 29 Revolver Comparison With Other. Steel, “unfinished” appearance on the trigger and hammer, walnut grips.Īnd the lines of the revolver are classic. Then on Thursday, JanuI walked back intoĬoopers with a couple of guns to trade and the model 29 became Today, in 2020, the line retains the same sleek, beautiful, and dependable design.Ĭouple of agonizing days deciding what I would trade in on it and take aįinancial hit on. Mine was a 50th anniversary model complete with gold seal on the side.
On Tuesday, January 13, 2009, I walked intoĬoopers Gun Shop in Fort Smith and there it was. Not many were available here and I couldn’t find one for some And my second chance to own one came around. 44 magnum and the Dirty Harry gun was reborn. Of genius by Smith and Wesson, they createdĪnniversary Edition. One” that Harry used to dispense with the most deplorable of murderousĬriminals). S&W discontinued, in the late 1990s, the basic model 29 (the “real Out with lots of model 29s after the original, all numbered, model 29-1,Ģ9-2, 29-3, 629 (stainless), most models bearing manufacturing changesĭesigned to "improve" the revolver. I would find myself pointing the big, good looking gun My day” the flashback of the model 29 would appear in the frontal lobe 357 magnum and a few other guns.Īs time went on, and I drifted away from shooting for quite aįew years, I put the Smith and Wesson model 29 in the back recesses ofīut whenever I saw a DH rerun or heard the famous words “make So, in those days I had a Rugerīlackhawk. Had been able to find one, they were so prohibitively expensive that I They were virtually unattainable for regular people like me.
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