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629-1 circa 1983. Probably overpaid, but it's very clean and I wanted one... ![[Linked Image from i.imgur.com]](https://i.imgur.com/GvcFpEm.jpg)
A good principle to guide me through life: “This is all I have come to expect, standard lackluster performance. Trust nothing, believe no one and realize it will only get worse…”
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Jorge, you're on a spree lately! I'm jealous!
Good score!
Wade
"Let's Roll!" - Todd Beamer 9/11/01.
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I have a "twin" to that one, and love it! (But have a Weaver 2x scope atop mine!)
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Need to get you some white Ivorex smooth Targets for that  https://i.gifer.com/6et4.gif
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629-1 circa 1983. Probably overpaid, but it's very clean and I wanted one... Be hard to overpay for one. Difficult to price one nowadays. As always, they are worth what somebody will give. Congrats.
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I had a 6 1l2 inch 629 in the late 80s that shot really well with 240-250 SWC and Sierra 240 JHP. They are excellent woods guns that can stand some weather and hard use.
Direct Impingement is the Fart Joke of military rifle operating systems. ⓒ
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![[Linked Image]](https://www.24hourcampfire.com/ubbthreads/gallery/80/full/161088.jpg) In 1997 I walked into a tiny mom and pop gunshop and saw a 1988 LNIB S&W 29-4 for $200. I asked why so cheap. The owner said the commision seller was just there and wanted the price reduced. I asked why the pawn shop did not buy it? They said the did not have $200. I pulled $200 out of my pocket. That made MY day.
There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self. -Ernest Hemingway
The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.-- Edward John Phelps
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I'm pretty much done with my handgun acquisitions......
A good principle to guide me through life: “This is all I have come to expect, standard lackluster performance. Trust nothing, believe no one and realize it will only get worse…”
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Sweet looking 629. I have done some dumb things in my past, one of which was selling mine.
I may not be smart but I can lift heavy objects
I have a shotgun so I have no need for a 30-06.....
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I had an older 629 but sold it when I needed some cash. Replaced it wish a 629 deluxe a few years back, dont like it near as much as that old one.
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I had an older 629 but sold it when I needed some cash. Replaced it wish a 629 deluxe a few years back, dont like it near as much as that old one. What is different in the Deluxe?
I may not be smart but I can lift heavy objects
I have a shotgun so I have no need for a 30-06.....
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Deluxe had a full underlug barrel and interchangeable front sights. You got a nice one there, Jorge!
If we live long enough, we all have regrets. But the ones that nag at us the most are the ones in which we know we had a choice.
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I'm pretty much done with my handgun acquisitions...... Me too, unless I run across a 29-2
All American
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Nice. I have a 4' and 6" no dash P&N'rd of each, M629's. Well made stuff we will likely never see again.
Conduct is the best proof of character.
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How much $?
“I gots to know!”
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In December of 79 the company I worked for sent 4 of us up to Prudhoe Bay to modify some equipment that was sent up there. Spent 16 days 12 -15 hrs a day working
I had some pretty nice paychecks coming
Stopped by a gun dealer I know asked about what was new he pulled out a Brown SW shipping box and opened it on the spot blue boxed gun and cellophane wrapped wood presentation case m629 8 3/8". Cost 500 cash. I paid on the spot most of the 629 frames that year had been ruined by bad heat treating but SW managed about 1500each of 4" and 8 3/8" as well as 3000 6" . Next year they went to 6" and no pinned and recessed any more. I found a pair of smooth Rosewood goncalo alves target grips for it and they are still on it. You might say we're buds. Mb
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" Cheapest velocity in the world comes from a long barrel and I sure do like them. MB "
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