Christmas gift to me...from me!!! Smith and Wesson Model 29-2
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By lighter I mean the powder load, I always use a 240 gr bullet when reloading for this revolver. The gun is designed to shoot 240 gr. factory loads, but would not exceed those in this gun.
I don't holster mine so I can't give any advise on that.
Johnn Peterson
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Shooting the 180s will be okay but my preference,
like that of others here is with something along the line of a cast 240gr SW. I think that's where the 29 really comes into its own. Dry firing empty, I don't know if it would really do harm or not but any dry firing I do is with snap caps only. Concerning a holster,being an Elmer Keith fan, on a visit with him in the early to mid 70's I took note of what he used.
A while back, I contacted the manufacturer of his and although on todays version or model of that holster has the trigger guard area covered, they kindly agreed to make me a copy of his.
like that of others here is with something along the line of a cast 240gr SW. I think that's where the 29 really comes into its own. Dry firing empty, I don't know if it would really do harm or not but any dry firing I do is with snap caps only. Concerning a holster,being an Elmer Keith fan, on a visit with him in the early to mid 70's I took note of what he used.
A while back, I contacted the manufacturer of his and although on todays version or model of that holster has the trigger guard area covered, they kindly agreed to make me a copy of his
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- Can I dry fire it? -------(Yes, without harm to the gun.)
- Is it safe to use any factory ammo in this? Its was made in the late '70s. ...I have 100 rounds of Remington UMC 180gr. rounds for it, if they are not gonna be "too much" ----( Use any north american factory ammunition in it.)
- Anything else I should know? -------(Don't point it at your foot when you shoot it.)
- Is it safe to use any factory ammo in this? Its was made in the late '70s. ...I have 100 rounds of Remington UMC 180gr. rounds for it, if they are not gonna be "too much" ----( Use any north american factory ammunition in it.)
- Anything else I should know? -------(Don't point it at your foot when you shoot it.)
Johnn Peterson
CGN Ultra frequent flyer
- Location
- Chemainus B.C.
About half of mine are homemade, using that process. Works well.
Jeff YOU will die before that gun does if you use it the way you describe and care for it well.
The big Smith won't even notice a few boxes of hot factory stuff now and then.
The Smith got rep from the gun geeks that shoot thousands upon thousands of rounds a year. They found that generally the Rugers tended to outlast the Smiths - but often needed tuning and tweaking to shoot as well as the Smiths did right out of the box. Even with that, most of those guys shot the daylights out of their Rugers and saved the Smiths for the serious stuff. Why, we should all be so lucky as to have nothing better in our lives to wear our guns out!
I shoot quite a bit more than you do but quite a bit less than the cool kids. I reload and most of my stuff is patty-cake target stuff but I have a few boxes of screamers loaded up should I ever require them. That gun will pack a serious wallop even with moderate loads and the hot stuff can turn newbies into flinching idiots. I would advise you to get familiar with your new friend before you start stoking him up. These big boomers can be hard to shoot so don't get discouraged.
The big Smith won't even notice a few boxes of hot factory stuff now and then.
The Smith got rep from the gun geeks that shoot thousands upon thousands of rounds a year. They found that generally the Rugers tended to outlast the Smiths - but often needed tuning and tweaking to shoot as well as the Smiths did right out of the box. Even with that, most of those guys shot the daylights out of their Rugers and saved the Smiths for the serious stuff. Why, we should all be so lucky as to have nothing better in our lives to wear our guns out!
I shoot quite a bit more than you do but quite a bit less than the cool kids. I reload and most of my stuff is patty-cake target stuff but I have a few boxes of screamers loaded up should I ever require them. That gun will pack a serious wallop even with moderate loads and the hot stuff can turn newbies into flinching idiots. I would advise you to get familiar with your new friend before you start stoking him up. These big boomers can be hard to shoot so don't get discouraged.
Shooting the 180s will be okay but my preference,
A while back, I contacted the manufacturer of his and although on todays version or model of that holster has the trigger guard area covered, they kindly agreed to make me a copy of his
Nice photos!!!
I know very little on that man but I plan to read up more on him.
As to handloads, I own both an early N seraled 29-2 and a five screw prenumbered gun, both 6 and one half inch. Either gun will shoot 8.0 grains of unique behind a bulletbarn 240 grain cast all day with no pain involved. I have clocked this load out of a 5 inch 629, and its going about 900 -950 fps. about 45 Colt territory. Then when you get really brave, you can try out " Elmers load"
Johnn Peterson
CGN Ultra frequent flyer
- Location
- Chemainus B.C.
As to handloads, I own both an early N seraled 29-2 and a five screw prenumbered gun, both 6 and one half inch. Either gun will shoot 8.0 grains of unique behind a bulletbarn 240 grain cast all day with no pain involved. I have clocked this load out of a 5 inch 629, and its going about 900 -950 fps. about 45 Colt territory. Then when you get really brave, you can try out " Elmers load"
22grs. of Hercules 2400 behind his 250gr, Lyman #429421 a small quantity of which I still have left. Also, with some of the later production runs of 2400, which seems to be somewhat 'warmer',
I have had to cut the loads back to 20grs. When my last two lbs of Hercules runs out, I'll probably switch over to H110.Sorry Elmer.
Johnn Peterson
CGN Ultra frequent flyer
- Location
- Chemainus B.C.
You & me both. I have had quite a number of offers just for the factory S&W ivory grips shown on mine on post #23. I locked on to them at a local gun show in Duncan years ago and in reality, they're worth more than the gun.
