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That's a really nice gun!
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beautiful! Mother's mag polish, aye?? Yessir. Picked that trick up, I believe, on the Colt forum. 2009-2011, I think. Why I posted the picture of those dirty rags. Stuff works good!
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Very nice LD. About ten years ago I picked up a similarly conditioned nickel 4" M25-5. With a bit of elbow grease it was night and day. Exactly, Ed. I was very pleasantly surprised at how well this one cleaned up.
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Man, that's a looker LD, Congrats! look hard in pic #1 at the reflection behind the cylinder, tell me that's not a grizzly bear holding a fat fish.................if that aint a sign, i don't know what is ; ]
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Not a fan of nickeled revolvers……but WOW that is nice. Came out great. Congratulations on a fine gun.
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6" model 29-2 was available in 1979-1981, therefore that revolver is correct and should have a serial # above N600000 or thereabouts. Yep. N66 xxxx. S&W Tech told me most likely 1979.
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Picked this up at LGS last week. It was filthy. Cylinder would open, but barely. Dried oil, barrel full of copper and lead fouling. Could tell it had good bones, though. All the bells and whistles. Took it apart, cleaned thoroughly, and spent a couple hours last night polishing all the nickel with Mother's Mag & Aluminum polish. Thinking she looks pretty ok now. ![[Linked Image from i.imgur.com]](https://i.imgur.com/LnBCZGg.jpg) ![[Linked Image from i.imgur.com]](https://i.imgur.com/fzihpQx.jpg) ![[Linked Image from i.imgur.com]](https://i.imgur.com/GMKxmbm.jpg) Hopefully it's not the one I had when I was a kid. I wore that sob out...
I try to stick with the basics, they do so well. Nothing fancy mind you, just plain jane will get it done with style. You want to see an animal drop right now? Shoot him in the ear hole. BSA MAGA
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LD,
What did the internals look like when you got it broken down?
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LD,
What did the internals look like when you got it broken down?
RS Looked fine. It's been shot. Just never cleaned. Filthy. I would think if this one was bsa1917hunter's, he would have taken better care of it. 
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Nice! I need a p&r, nickel Smith. My brother has an 8 3/8” p&r, nickel 29. Afraid all my shiny Smiths have a 6 in the model number.
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I had 6.5" 29-2 nickel for a long time. I traded it off some years ago. I carried it quite a bit for a few years. The finish is very durable. It did show scuffs as time went on, but it never flaked.
It was an excellent gun. I don't regret its passing, but I do remember our time together fondly.
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Very nice. I had a 4" nickel and a 6 or 6 1/2" one also. Can't remember the dash, if they had one. The 4" had the smoothest, lightest trigger I've ever owned on a Smith.
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I had 6.5" 29-2 nickel for a long time. I traded it off some years ago. I carried it quite a bit for a few years. The finish is very durable. It did show scuffs as time went on, but it never flaked.
It was an excellent gun. I don't regret its passing, but I do remember our time together fondly. FYI- The Mother's will take light scuffs out. It worked bery well on 2 blemishes on the left side of this gun.
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Joel, one of these days we'll get to go do some shooting together.
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Very nice job! Do you also have some pics of the gun before you cleaned up the mess? Probably you should change your name form local_dirt to local_polish or, better, high_glossy. After seeing this I should this one give a try: https://www.progun.de/de/shop/kurzw..._t=29-2&s_hk=1&s_sk=30&o=neuI bet you payed a little bit more than 790 Euros/950 $.
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Picked this up at LGS last week. It was filthy. Cylinder would open, but barely. Dried oil, barrel full of copper and lead fouling. Could tell it had good bones, though. All the bells and whistles. Took it apart, cleaned thoroughly, and spent a couple hours last night polishing all the nickel with Mother's Mag & Aluminum polish. Thinking she looks pretty ok now. Hopefully it's not the one I had when I was a kid. I wore that sob out... Kidding from my other post aside, unless you're an 80 y.o. south FL man with a brain tumor, it's probably not you're old gun.
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Local dirt: Thank you very much for the tip on the "Mothers" polish.
And good for you on the acquisition of the nifty nickel plated 29-2.
I have been so busy Varminting for the last month that I have not got to do anything with the 8 3/8" S&W Model 29-2 that I recently bought hereabouts.
I have some "Flitz" metal polish - do you have any knowledge of it or a comparison possibly with the results made by "Mothers" as compared to "Flitz"?
Again great snag - keep after'em.
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