S&W Revolvers
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Murray Charleton. S&W warranty and repair guy. - dan
Just from personal experience I would stay away from Murray Charleton, told me my M29 was a piece of #### and needed a new frame and everything warn out. Funny sent it to Gunnar and he said it was the best first model M29 he had ever seen and offered to buy it from me for a friend. No head space problems, no end shake, absolutely perfect timing. The reason I sent it to Charleton was to get a once over before giving it to my son, it had been sitting at the grandfathers farm for 30 years and it was willed to me when he passed away. Maybe seen 5 boxes of shells thru it at the most.
S&w 29
Interesting! I had an older 6½", gave it to my son and he won some pretty good trophies with it in silhouette shooting, before that game went better-gun-crazy. Got a 1980s 44 and it was real piece of sxxt! The action came unhooked while I was shooting wax bullets with primers in my basement. Inside it looked like a stamped out, dollar watch used to look! For comparison I took the side off my K22 S&W, which I purchased new in 1953, before they put the model 17 designation to it, and it looked like a Waltham watch. I currently have a 357, made before they came up with model numbers.
hunter64 said:
Interesting! I had an older 6½", gave it to my son and he won some pretty good trophies with it in silhouette shooting, before that game went better-gun-crazy. Got a 1980s 44 and it was real piece of sxxt! The action came unhooked while I was shooting wax bullets with primers in my basement. Inside it looked like a stamped out, dollar watch used to look! For comparison I took the side off my K22 S&W, which I purchased new in 1953, before they put the model 17 designation to it, and it looked like a Waltham watch. I currently have a 357, made before they came up with model numbers.
H4831: Absolutely, the quality is night and day. I have 3 .44's from the late 50's and early 60's and like you said the insides are perfect, you can hardly find a machining mark anywhere. My 629 and my model 29's from the late 70's and early 80's and 90's are a whole different story. There are machine marks everywhere and you have to take a stone to do some fine tuning to get anywhere near the quality of the older revolvers. I have a couple of model 28's (.357) and it is the same story, early ones are smooth, my .357 from 95 had to be made smooth. Now I can't say about the new ones as in turn of the century on. Funny we look for the older ones made 50 years ago for quality and workmanship.
