The year of the smith

[rintinglen]

I've got to stop going into my LGS.
Yesterday, I wandered into my local gunshop and there was, laying on the shelf, an 8 3/8" Smith and Wesson model 29, 1970's vintage, in the wooden display case. For the paltry sum of 675$. Now for you guys back in the free states, that might not sound so good, but here in Commiefornia, that is a good price. I squelched my desire to purchase a Savage 99 that I had come in to look at, and put my money down on the Smith. It'll be a couple more weeks before I can pick it up, but I can justify it. It'll save me money. If I'd bought the Savage I'd have had to buy dies, find brass, buy that--I already reload the 44 magnum and special, so that's a c-note right there. (my wife taught me this kind of economics);)

I'll post pictures when I finally get it.

[44man]

Wonderful gun, you won't be sorry.

[MtGun44]

Sounds like a good price pretty much anywhere.

Enjoy.

Bill

[Chilmonty]

Awesome gun and if the condition is decent at all, thats a great price!

[cbrick]

Yeah, that pesky waiting period. Well, it's now been two days and only 12 more to go huh.

Rick

[Jack Stanley]

I haven't been sorry with any model twenty-nine Smith I've purchased .

Jack

[TXGunNut]

Those old 29's are pretty awesome, good call on sticking with a cartridge you're already set up for. Dunno about a c-note for a new cartrdge, tho. My latest new cartridge will cost me a bit north of $150 to load the first 100 rounds but ammo is $40/box of 50, I feel I got in pretty cheap. Some Savage chamberings could get pretty expensive...but I still want one someday.

[Dale53]

Here's my 70's era Model 29 (8 3/8") with a Burris big dot scope on it. I have taken several deer with it. I have fired something like 10,000 full charge reloads (my cast 250 gr Keith) and it is as tight as the day I received it. I bought it new. They were very hard to get and I had a gunsmith/dealer in the next state (20 miles away) call me with the first one he was able to get. It took a few months, at the time, but was happy to get it. It has been a dandy:

http://i269.photobucket.com/albums/jj80/Dale53/DalesPistolsRevolvers5Selects-0219.jpg (http://s269.photobucket.com/user/Dale53/media/DalesPistolsRevolvers5Selects-0219.jpg.html)

You made a terrific buy, in my estimation...

Dale53

[TXGunNut]

Nice, Dale. Very nice.

[km101]

I don't know how many were actually made, but the 8 3/8" model was always harder to find than the others. I owned one in the late '80's that I shot silhouette matches with. It was a great gun and was as tight the day I sold it as the day I got it. The '70s vintage guns seemed to have a better blue job too. Still kick myself for selling that gun. I think you will like the way it shoots! And that's a pretty good price, even outside granola country!

[MtGun44]

Waiting period... . . . . . . . wow, what a PITA.

Bill

[rintinglen]

Waiting period... . . . . . . . wow, what a PITA.

Bill

Thats not the worst of it. It is a consignment gun, so it has to complete the 30 day "pawn" hold before I can DROS it, then 10 more days. I'll actually get it June 2nd.
The gun laws in this state are bothersome. (Six more years--only six more years--then I can get the heck out of LaLa Land).

[MtGun44]

Good luck, from outside CA, the one gain seems to be that the
folks that bought a house in the 70s and 80s can sell it and bail
with a huge profit and go live somewhere in Free America. I can't
see how anyone can afford to buy a house any more.

Nice to visit my birth state, but can't stand more than a week or
two at a time. Too much control and too many illegals.

Well, in any case - it should be a nice gun.

Bill

[cbrick]

Been 15 months already since I escaped CA. I've only bought one gun since I moved back to America but I went to the store, paid my money and walked out the door . . . With my new gun. :mrgreen:

Rick

[rintinglen]

Been 15 months already since I escaped CA. I've only bought one gun since I moved back to America but I went to the store, paid my money and walked out the door . . . With my new gun. :mrgreen:

Rick

I am green with envy, but 6-6-13 the wife and I are flying back to Virginia to go house hunting in anticipation of retiring there. Works like that there, too.

[Jack Stanley]

Been 15 months already since I escaped CA. I've only bought one gun since I moved back to America but I went to the store, paid my money and walked out the door . . . With my new gun. :mrgreen:

Rick

Real nice like that , ain't it?:grin:

Jack

[MtGun44]

It's called FREEDOM.

Bill

[Sasquatch-1]

I was looking for one of those a couple months ago. Would have gladly payed south of $700.00 for it. Was at a gun show here in WV just east of the Peoples Republic Of Maryland and a guy had 7 or 8 of them and was asking $1200.00 a piece. Ended up with a nice Super Redhawk already scoped.

[Bucking the Tiger]

You did fine,Sir. That would be a price that would have me finding money to buy it, and I own 3 .44 Magnum Smith&Wessons.