This is how it looks after 1500 rounds of which about 1000 were on the plate rack indoors. Things have smoothed out quite a bit. The opening problem was related to the front detent ball which with wear in and some grease is a lot better.
The red dot scope is mounted on a weaver base, the gun is shown in a ghost holster from Double Tap on my CR speed belt. I ordered 100 moon clips from Revolver Supply in US and split them up between the 4 of us that bought this model.
The insides have been polished as well as the trigger face, the revolver as purchased came with a Wolff main spring, I only replaced the rebound spring with the middle weight one from a Wolff set. The lightest one was not quick enough on trigger return.
My old ppc speed loader works for the moon clips for now.
One of the owners found a piece of tubing with the correct ID for 9mm and made a moon clip casing remover by trimming the edge to about 1/4 of original circumference. I have done this before for the 625s I owned. Unloading the moon clip is very quick now.
If I could just get a side plate without the name on it I would be quite happy with my purchase. The gun is mine, not his.
The other three 929 owners are also happy with their purchase. Only one other has spent time on the plate rack though.
I purchased it last Thursday from The Powder Keg and it arrived Tuesday. On Wednesday three shooters and me put about 200 rounds through it and I have this as comments:
- although size does matter in handguns the N frame does not feel any larger than the L frames I own
- the fact that it is 2 ounces lighter than a 6 " 686 is noticeable. The titanium cylinder contributing greatly to the weight reduction over a standard N frame
- with 8 plated round nose bullets in the full moon clip reloading is very quick
- the trigger is the worst I have ever had from smith and wesson and i have owned around a dozen of their revolvers however this can be worked on. Just a surprise as this is my first performance model and I expected more. I have an extra Wolff set of springs so I will polish the insides and replace the sprins after a thousand rounds.
- the cylinder did not release very well initially but I think it is getting better over time.
- it will fit in my old Ernie Hill holster so I don't have to go hunting for another holster.
- I threw some reloads together just wanting to get some trigger time but the load proved to be very accurate. On the third moon clip I made a rather large ragged hole at 15 yards. Not my best performance but looks promising.
- I have the weaver 401 base on the way to mount on it and Wholesale had a sale on scopes so I picked up another pro point for it.
- I ordered 25 full moon clips from the US and they are shipping them across the border.
- and this probably speaks volumes. The other three shooters who fired it each found their own 929 and purchased them this week and they are on the way.
- looks like ithere is going to be a lot of rattling steel targets in the next couple of weeks.
- we have a plate rack indoors so I will have to settle for that on Monday.
929 is center between my two L frames I had out for comparison.
The red dot scope is mounted on a weaver base, the gun is shown in a ghost holster from Double Tap on my CR speed belt. I ordered 100 moon clips from Revolver Supply in US and split them up between the 4 of us that bought this model.
The insides have been polished as well as the trigger face, the revolver as purchased came with a Wolff main spring, I only replaced the rebound spring with the middle weight one from a Wolff set. The lightest one was not quick enough on trigger return.
My old ppc speed loader works for the moon clips for now.
One of the owners found a piece of tubing with the correct ID for 9mm and made a moon clip casing remover by trimming the edge to about 1/4 of original circumference. I have done this before for the 625s I owned. Unloading the moon clip is very quick now.
If I could just get a side plate without the name on it I would be quite happy with my purchase. The gun is mine, not his.
The other three 929 owners are also happy with their purchase. Only one other has spent time on the plate rack though.
I purchased it last Thursday from The Powder Keg and it arrived Tuesday. On Wednesday three shooters and me put about 200 rounds through it and I have this as comments:
- although size does matter in handguns the N frame does not feel any larger than the L frames I own
- the fact that it is 2 ounces lighter than a 6 " 686 is noticeable. The titanium cylinder contributing greatly to the weight reduction over a standard N frame
- with 8 plated round nose bullets in the full moon clip reloading is very quick
- the trigger is the worst I have ever had from smith and wesson and i have owned around a dozen of their revolvers however this can be worked on. Just a surprise as this is my first performance model and I expected more. I have an extra Wolff set of springs so I will polish the insides and replace the sprins after a thousand rounds.
- the cylinder did not release very well initially but I think it is getting better over time.
- it will fit in my old Ernie Hill holster so I don't have to go hunting for another holster.
- I threw some reloads together just wanting to get some trigger time but the load proved to be very accurate. On the third moon clip I made a rather large ragged hole at 15 yards. Not my best performance but looks promising.
- I have the weaver 401 base on the way to mount on it and Wholesale had a sale on scopes so I picked up another pro point for it.
- I ordered 25 full moon clips from the US and they are shipping them across the border.
- and this probably speaks volumes. The other three shooters who fired it each found their own 929 and purchased them this week and they are on the way.
- looks like ithere is going to be a lot of rattling steel targets in the next couple of weeks.
- we have a plate rack indoors so I will have to settle for that on Monday.
929 is center between my two L frames I had out for comparison.
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