At the range yesterday, a guy 2 benches down was watching me shoot my well worn 4" 29-2 Smith&Wesson. He walked down and asked me if I liked it. I told him that I did and was a self confessed S&W addict. He went back to a backpack and pulled out an ufired and (looked like) unturned 8-3/8" nickel 29-2 with box and all the tools and paperwork, The cylinder had only 3 stain marks on every other hole and the recoil plate was spotless. It was a beautiful specimen if I ever saw one. He then preceded to load the gun and run about 25 or 30 rounds through it, not hitting the steel plate at 25 yds 1 single time. Then he put it in an old wool sock and dumped it back in the back pack. He also asked me if $1700 was too much to pay for it. I told him (of course) that he got a great deal but since I am not in the $1700 club, I really couldn't attest to that fact. I wonder what monetary damage he did to that gun by shooting it. I did tell him that using 44 Spl ammo in it would help his shooting and be kinder to the gun. I do remember that it had a N prefix in the 50000 range serial number. I don't fault him for shooting the pristine gun, it's his after all, but somewhere somebody is cringing at the thought.