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Beautiful firearm. You should be able to shoot untold thousands of the now creampuff loads of today through it.

a few (4) 29s in this picture, back when I was enamored with camo Pachmayrs a couple years ago!

Some 629s. The no dash one in the lower left, I had converted to .380 a few years back.

I bet the one in 380 is hard to hang on to.

1957 vintage pre-29 4-screw nickel in .32 auto:

Beautiful! I bought my blue 8-3/8ths barreled 29 in 1981, don't know what 'dash' it was, do know I had a bag of 400 Remington 240gr scalloped hollow points, never hit an animal with them, but at 1250 fps they'd blow holy hell out of water filled milk jugs, stumps, staubs, dirt clods, and rocks laying about.

Man I am beside myself. My desirification for one in 380 is a greatly great.

And lastly for me, a 1958 vintage 29 no dash in a pancake croc/beef holster, with elk grips, in 9mm caliber:

As you may guess, I do not own any Tupperware guns, as they tend to melt out here in the Arizona summers.

I bet you use the "grizzly bear load" in it.

If you desire, I could trade it for a well-used flock, I mean, glock, in 9mm...+ a little cash. Let me know if you interested!

Ill let you know.

How dare you conceal that Smith in holsterage?

That holsterage is nice. It sure beats underwearage and other coveragements that he could selectificate to offer concealmentage.

There's 3 Smith 29-2's and one 44 Magnum Smith in this pic of 44's (except a 32 Smith standing vertical).

The Smiths, including the 629, get 8.5 grs. CFE Pistol and the H&G 503/265gr. bullet.

The Rugers eat mostly the same, but also get fed 280 LBT's and 24 grs. Lil' Gun and the 300 WLN with 18 grs. Lil'Gun (Marlin1894 load).

The Redhawk gets the 350 LFN and 18 grs. Lil' Gun.

Someone asked when the Smith's lost "smoothness"; I don't think they ever have and if they did, its not a difficult fix, from any era.
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Gonna restate a few previous posts, with my own narrative.

Full power loads aren't fun to shoot a lot.
Slightly lighter loads will not harm the thing.
You only need the hot stuff for hunting, if you need it at all,
And your not going to shoot that much hunting.

If you buy it to use in competition, with hot loads,
you are a fool. There are better guns for that. (But not better guns in general)

Damn! Thats a beautiful collection of S&W revolers.....Congrats!....👍....Hb

Since we are talking durability I have a model 627 Pro that i always shoot 357 Mag 125gr loads in, will it outlast me? And i have heard that the cylinder stop on these will wear out......Hb

Much like the model 19 is a 38 Special that can handle some occasional 357 mags.

Whenever S&W threads pop up the topic always becomes "what will wear out first". That's why I'm getting a Super Redhawk this weekend. The answer will be "nothing".

I have been having great wonderment since the later 44 Mag ammo and load data has been lesserfied as to pressureness shouldnt the elderly S&W M29's have not a problem shooting thousands and thousands and thousands of the lesserized ammo?
Wasnt that why the ammo and load data has had a milk toastyness trend in powerfulness?