I have a 629-6 that I used in the Center Fire portions of local gun club Bullseye matches. I won first place two years in a row using 240 grain cast semi wad cutters with reduced charges of Unique. These are great revolvers.
Beautiful gun. I had that exact model save for the fact that I went for a ported barrel because ... its 44 mag! Hogue grips make a nice addition to that piece and the trigger pull, action, and smooth hammer never let you down. She's accurate even with that big load at 30 meters. Really nice. I miss my old S&W. GOD speed to you and your new lady.
Thank you. I put a set of Altamont "combat" wood grips on it and love the looks and feel, but still haven't shot it with those stocks on it yet, since changing them. I'll shoot this one on camera, along with a few others I've recently got, as soon as practicable.
A Very Merry Christmas To You and Your Family. I hope you enjoy your S&W Model 629. I have owned three S&W Revolvers and all three served me well and I highly recommend them.
You will LOVE fiberoptic sights. Super fast to pick up, great sight picture. Truglow is a good sight. Used them on competition pistols. Work great and don't break the bank.
They're big chunks of metal and I never tire of looking and handling mine. Mine's a 3" Deluxe and I hit it with Mother's ever chance it get. I don't think it's getting any shinier at this point, but it's just plain relaxing and satisfying to polish it up. No different, for me, than making the trucks and Jeeps look pretty.
Merry Christmas Mr. Ployboysghost! looks like it came just in time...Congratulations on you first Smith and Wesson. You have so many nice other classics...great addition!
Thanks for posting! A few years back, I got 150 rounds of trigger time with a 629-4 and liked it, but the rubber grip put a blister on my thumb knuckle. The owner wanted to trade me for an AR I had. I figured if he was able to afford that nice revolver, he can go get an AR on his own, so something was wrong. To this day, I have been wanting a revolver just like it, but with wood grips, maybe even Miculek grips.
I bought one of these exact guns for a ridiculous price. It had the trigger lock damaged? So it was cheaper to do a lock delete. So then it locked up in double action. It took gentle reshaping of the sear. It had a 12 pound trigger pull so a rebound spring change dropped it to 9lbs. So aftermarket trigger. Now 4lb trigger pull.Gun was so uncomfortable to use. So combat grips. Finally getting somewhere. So next I had to shim yoke then shim the cylinder. Now I have one really nice 629 for less than 1000 bucks. I think it's worth ever cent I spent on it.
funny...i just started collecting guns about 8 months ago, and i already own 2 smith and wessons...model 638 and 629...my 629 has the rubber grip which is extremely comfortable, and its accurate AF
Nice job with the Mother’s. I have a newer 629, but with the 6 inch half-lug barrel, and mine has that duller finish. I may give the Mother’s a try. I use a 240 grain XTP over 19.7 of 2400. Nice accurate load.
Thanks. Mothers aluminum and mag polish is what i use on my nickel Cimarron .45 Colt, and i used it a few years ago on a polished stainless New Vaquero .45 I owned. It'll also quickly clean up powder fouling on my rougher finish stainless Taurus Model 44. I'm not going to make this one a mirror, but I can live with it like it looks in this video.
My first Smith revolver ever and maybe 4th ever 44 magnum is en route to my FFL, this model. It is to go with my Rossi 92 lever, and side by side with my EEA Bounty Hunter which I just don't trust 100 percent in cross-chest holstering. But I love this gun and it will be my commander's companion. lol Cannot wait. Thank you
I finally found me a 629 for under $1,000 and jumped on it, well, sorta, put it in layaway, truck payment and house payment are a bitch when you love guns, and the 629 has been my dream gun for so long now, they are GORGEOUS revolvers especially with those rosewood grips, can't wait to get paid so i can get mine and bring her home, definitely going to order the rosewood grips for it too
I like it, thanks. I've got a red fiber optic front sight, a leather triple k holster,and a pair of Silverblack Altamont combat grips coming for it first half of next week...so i can carry it around, see the sights, and change the looks/handling.
I found a lot of boxes of ammo inc signature 240gr fmj flat nose that's rated at 1430fps for 39.99 a box and they are 50rd boxes, so less than a buck a round for real powered 44 mag. It's my practice and pig load!!!
Might as well...heheh. I should've went ahead and shot it some more and moved the rear sight if it really was shooting low (and not just ME shooting low) instead of cleaning it and putting it back on my pistol rack.
@@plowboysghost I carry a glock 19 daily and shoot a little left with it some say that most do it that shoot left with a glock but I don't with my 40cal glock I am gona change the sights any way gona put some night sights on it
@@stevenlawson9460 A buddy of mine bought a Glock 40 MOS today. He's planning to put some sort of red dot something or other on it. Nothing wrong with that. I'm planning to build an AR, of all things....while they are dirt cheap.
I didn't really want the rubber grips, since i have rubber grips on the Model 44 and was thinking of putting wood on it. Surprisingly, these wood grips feel pretty good when shooting it, but I'm eyeballing some other, finger grooved wood grips.
I have this one, and I love it!!! Got it loaded with underwood 240gr xtp's rated at 1500fps!!! What are your thoughts on heavy 300gr or heavier in this? I know you're not supposed to in the old model 29.
Hi! Love it!!!! That’s a fine lookin sidearm right there! Dang. I love S&W’s and would rather have a 629 but I just got another “bear gun” and felt I needed the beefiness of a Ruger Redhawk again for the gigantoid Buffalo Bore’s I want to carry. Just got in fiber optics for it. The stock sights are a bit blocky for any decent accuracy, at least from me. Be a while for a video of it. Again, that’s one beautiful gun you picked up. Merry Christmas and hope to see more of you in the new year.
I kicked around the idea of buying a standard framed (non-Super) Redhawk instead of this Smith just for those +P+ BB rounds, but I do have a Super Blackhawk that can eat them, so i went this way instead. Besides.... I'll end up getting a (BFR in either) .475 Linebaugh/.480 Ruger or .500 Linebaugh in this next year. I just almost feel that this 629 is going to HAVE to have a set of fiber optics. Either those factory sights suck in bright sunlight such as what I was shooting in, or my eyes are to blame. Either way, glowing dots would be much better. Thanks, and Merry Christmas!
S&W can handle any load a Ruger can! They are not built stronger than a S&W at all! Rugers are thicker only because they are a cast made gun where a S&W are a forged made gun. In order to make a cast made gun as strong as a forged it has to be thicker! Ruger makes cast guns because it’s cheaper and people think they are stronger. In reality a forged gun is usually always stronger than a cast one. It’s simple metallurgy. Now years ago Ruger did make tougher built guns but they were only the SA guns for wildcat calibers. But this is not the case for their DA/SA guns. People always say Rugers are built like a tank but they only seem this way because the casting process is inferior to a forged gun.🇺🇸
@@Lilnasty-jo3dc As far as i understand, newer S&W with the Endurance Package are pretty durable...and of course S&W seems to stand behind them when needed.
Also plowman you're my favorite guntuber!!! I wish I was better off so I could contribute, but things have gotten tight with this bidenconemy!!! Especially since I'm disabled and on a fixed income. I will hunt with this as it's easier on my back than most rifles.
@@plowboysghosttruth be told you're like the cool uncle that does all the fun stuff!!! You remind me of my favorite uncle and he's almost as cool as you!!!
Nice shooting! I am about to pick up a 44. I was about ready to buy the 629 Classic for 850 but then the I saw the model 29. the action felt soother and the price is $250 more. From what I could tell the only difference was the classic had a double underlug. What is the difference and does it justify the extra $$?
plowboysghost it was new. I decided to go with the 629 deluxe. I found it online for $791. I should have it in a few days. Where did you get your reloading data? I would like to start reloading some ammo. Looks like your loads are shooting well
@@jeremycrane6592 Several online places including: reloadammo.com/44loads.htm and a pdf version of Handloader Magazine's / Brian Pearce's article on the model 29/629 and loads for it.
Merry Christmas plowboy! Noce choice in gun I want one for myself but for 900$ on buds thats very rich for my blood however i may be putting a rock island 1911 gi fs 45acp in layaway! Cant decide do i want a ruger gp100 357 magnum unflutted wood grips or a 1911 45 acp more
I've had a GP100 and liked it pretty well. I kept that RIA GI .45 for years and it never malfunctioned once...so that's a hard choice to make. Merry Christmas to you, too.
@@plowboysghost more and likely might get the ria 1911 gi 45acp because i do wanna customize the grips into punisher grips and put a silver compensater on it take care plowboy!
I would...and I never would have let go of that one like I did later on, if I had it to do over again. I have other .44 Magnums, but I will own another one like this one.
You ain't the only one this choice perplexes. The Smith...so long as the barrel isn't canted, is a great gun. I love mine. However...the new Anaconda is a rung higher in fit and finish. I no longer have the Smith in this video, but I have a 4" 29-10 and a no dash 4" Model 57 both of which I love. I want a new partial underlug 629 6" or 6.5".. whichever it is, to go with what have , too. I want a longer, new Model 57,as well...so I do love Smith and Wesson revolvers. I haven't shot the Anaconda yet.
@@ramseycattn5941 I agree that the steel is strong enough. Though I know that the Endurance Package Smiths are a lot more durable than the earlier guns, it's been oft repeated that the S&W will prematurely loosen up with a diet of heavy Magnums...such as what's marketed as +P+ from Buffalo Bore. They specifically exclude the S&W from the list of guns they consider "safe" with that load.
I can't travel that far that soon. My wife's wanting me to go ahead and schedule a needed surgery after the first of the year, so i don't know how that's going to work with her work schedule, either.
I have a 629-6 that I used in the Center Fire portions of local gun club Bullseye matches. I won first place two years in a row using 240 grain cast semi wad cutters with reduced charges of Unique. These are great revolvers.
It’s a beautiful revolver, best birthday gift on my 44th birthday
Awesome!
Me too
Gotta be honest I like it more than the classic model 29. Both are among my favorites.
That revolver is absolutely gorgeous! U shot that .44 like it was a .22 gorgeous piece Thanx for the vid
Beautiful gun. I had that exact model save for the fact that I went for a ported barrel because ... its 44 mag! Hogue grips make a nice addition to that piece and the trigger pull, action, and smooth hammer never let you down. She's accurate even with that big load at 30 meters. Really nice. I miss my old S&W. GOD speed to you and your new lady.
Thank you.
I put a set of Altamont "combat" wood grips on it and love the looks and feel, but still haven't shot it with those stocks on it yet, since changing them.
I'll shoot this one on camera, along with a few others I've recently got, as soon as practicable.
A Very Merry Christmas To You and Your Family. I hope you enjoy your S&W Model 629. I have owned three S&W Revolvers and all three served me well and I highly recommend them.
Merry Christmas to you and your family, as well.
Beautiful gun I'm going to try to get one of these soon will probably have to order it these days
My first 44 was a four inch barrel. I liked it so much. I got myself a five inch barrel.
You will LOVE fiberoptic sights. Super fast to pick up, great sight picture. Truglow is a good sight. Used them on competition pistols. Work great and don't break the bank.
I've had them on a long gun or two, so i figured they'd really help out a revolver, too.
@@plowboysghost what is the difference between the classic and the classic deluxe? Is it just the grips?
They're big chunks of metal and I never tire of looking and handling mine. Mine's a 3" Deluxe and I hit it with Mother's ever chance it get. I don't think it's getting any shinier at this point, but it's just plain relaxing and satisfying to polish it up. No different, for me, than making the trucks and Jeeps look pretty.
Merry Christmas Mr. Ployboysghost! looks like it came just in time...Congratulations on you first Smith and Wesson. You have so many nice other classics...great addition!
Thanks! I'm diversifying my interests and collection a little bit.
Thanks for posting! A few years back, I got 150 rounds of trigger time with a 629-4 and liked it, but the rubber grip put a blister on my thumb knuckle. The owner wanted to trade me for an AR I had. I figured if he was able to afford that nice revolver, he can go get an AR on his own, so something was wrong. To this day, I have been wanting a revolver just like it, but with wood grips, maybe even Miculek grips.
Love the revolver. Another cool hat.
Thanks.
I've had this hat since before my first gun video...in which i was wearing it.
Damn nice cannon!.. MERRY CHRISTMAS TO YOU AND YOURS!
Thanks Mike. Merry Christmas to you & y'all.
Great fun looks and shoots great!!!
Thanks.
I love this gun everytime I walk past it and/or pick it up.
SWEEET! Merry Christmas to you and yours.
Merry Christmas to y'all, as well.
I bought one of these exact guns for a ridiculous price. It had the trigger lock damaged? So it was cheaper to do a lock delete. So then it locked up in double action. It took gentle reshaping of the sear. It had a 12 pound trigger pull so a rebound spring change dropped it to 9lbs. So aftermarket trigger. Now 4lb trigger pull.Gun was so uncomfortable to use. So combat grips. Finally getting somewhere. So next I had to shim yoke then shim the cylinder. Now I have one really nice 629 for less than 1000 bucks. I think it's worth ever cent I spent on it.
Congrats on your new 629! I just came back in from shooting my 686.
Sweet.
Revolvers are addictive...both single and double action.
Merry Christmas You Old Outlaw! For a minute I thought Glock got in the revolver business! That is a beautiful gun👍🇺🇸
I resemble that remark...heheh. Thanks. Merry Christmas!
It's gorgeous!
Beautiful Gun!
funny...i just started collecting guns about 8 months ago, and i already own 2 smith and wessons...model 638 and 629...my 629 has the rubber grip which is extremely comfortable, and its accurate AF
beautiful gun
Thanks!
I have the exact pistol. Love it!
Beautiful
Nice job with the Mother’s. I have a newer 629, but with the 6 inch half-lug barrel, and mine has that duller finish. I may give the Mother’s a try. I use a 240 grain XTP over 19.7 of 2400. Nice accurate load.
Thanks.
Mothers aluminum and mag polish is what i use on my nickel Cimarron .45 Colt, and i used it a few years ago on a polished stainless New Vaquero .45 I owned.
It'll also quickly clean up powder fouling on my rougher finish stainless Taurus Model 44.
I'm not going to make this one a mirror, but I can live with it like it looks in this video.
My first Smith revolver ever and maybe 4th ever 44 magnum is en route to my FFL, this model. It is to go with my Rossi 92 lever, and side by side with my EEA Bounty Hunter which I just don't trust 100 percent in cross-chest holstering. But I love this gun and it will be my commander's companion. lol Cannot wait. Thank you
Congrats...and Heck Yeah!
I've got the itch right now for the standard 6" non- full underlug standard model 629.
Looks nice 👍
Thanks you.
love that 44 !! Beautiful! have my heart set on one but heard S& W has it out of production. Thank you for showing it & the video
It’s still being produced
@@AMDpc067 thank you!
I picked mine up used if u get a chance to get one get it u won't regret it especially if it's a smith and wesson
S&W still producing guns, just slowed down for a while when they moved headquarters from Massachusetts to my home state of Tennessee
Beautiful! 👊😎🇺🇸
Thank you.
I finally found me a 629 for under $1,000 and jumped on it, well, sorta, put it in layaway, truck payment and house payment are a bitch when you love guns, and the 629 has been my dream gun for so long now, they are GORGEOUS revolvers especially with those rosewood grips, can't wait to get paid so i can get mine and bring her home, definitely going to order the rosewood grips for it too
How did that go
@driftcat7076 fantastic, it's easily my favorite handgun in my collection
@@ksrebelbuck7936 with such a commendation you make me consider buying one myself
That's a great gun.
I like it, thanks.
I've got a red fiber optic front sight, a leather triple k holster,and a pair of Silverblack Altamont combat grips coming for it first half of next week...so i can carry it around, see the sights, and change the looks/handling.
I found a lot of boxes of ammo inc signature 240gr fmj flat nose that's rated at 1430fps for 39.99 a box and they are 50rd boxes, so less than a buck a round for real powered 44 mag. It's my practice and pig load!!!
Nice pistol man you gonna bring in the new year with a bang
Might as well...heheh. I should've went ahead and shot it some more and moved the rear sight if it really was shooting low (and not just ME shooting low) instead of cleaning it and putting it back on my pistol rack.
@@plowboysghost I carry a glock 19 daily and shoot a little left with it some say that most do it that shoot left with a glock but I don't with my 40cal glock I am gona change the sights any way gona put some night sights on it
@@stevenlawson9460 A buddy of mine bought a Glock 40 MOS today. He's planning to put some sort of red dot something or other on it. Nothing wrong with that. I'm planning to build an AR, of all things....while they are dirt cheap.
I did an ad on Anderson recivers
@@plowboysghost ar
Hmmm might be a touch low but, looks like it is a winner. The Smith triggers are hard to beat!
Could be me that's shooting low. I'll shoot it some more before i turn screws.
It's smooth from one end to the other..and I love the trigger on it.
Man, that's nice.
Thanks. It catches my eye walking past my pistol rack, that's for sure.
I bought one earlier this year. I didn’t like the grips the it feels when you shoot it so I changed mine and put some rubber grips on mine
I didn't really want the rubber grips, since i have rubber grips on the Model 44 and was thinking of putting wood on it. Surprisingly, these wood grips feel pretty good when shooting it, but I'm eyeballing some other, finger grooved wood grips.
Jerry Reynolds what grips did you end up with ?
I'll Always Love me Neal Patrick Fry
I have this one, and I love it!!! Got it loaded with underwood 240gr xtp's rated at 1500fps!!! What are your thoughts on heavy 300gr or heavier in this? I know you're not supposed to in the old model 29.
Hi! Love it!!!! That’s a fine lookin sidearm right there! Dang.
I love S&W’s and would rather have a 629 but I just got another “bear gun” and felt I needed the beefiness of a Ruger Redhawk again for the gigantoid Buffalo Bore’s I want to carry. Just got in fiber optics for it. The stock sights are a bit blocky for any decent accuracy, at least from me. Be a while for a video of it.
Again, that’s one beautiful gun you picked up.
Merry Christmas and hope to see more of you in the new year.
I kicked around the idea of buying a standard framed (non-Super) Redhawk instead of this Smith just for those +P+ BB rounds, but I do have a Super Blackhawk that can eat them, so i went this way instead. Besides.... I'll end up getting a (BFR in either) .475 Linebaugh/.480 Ruger or .500 Linebaugh in this next year.
I just almost feel that this 629 is going to HAVE to have a set of fiber optics. Either those factory sights suck in bright sunlight such as what I was shooting in, or my eyes are to blame. Either way, glowing dots would be much better.
Thanks, and Merry Christmas!
All that being said from both of us, it’ll be hard for any double action to beat that 629 on looks!
@@gunsmackamigos1159 That be true.
S&W can handle any load a Ruger can! They are not built stronger than a S&W at all! Rugers are thicker only because they are a cast made gun where a S&W are a forged made gun. In order to make a cast made gun as strong as a forged it has to be thicker! Ruger makes cast guns because it’s cheaper and people think they are stronger. In reality a forged gun is usually always stronger than a cast one. It’s simple metallurgy. Now years ago Ruger did make tougher built guns but they were only the SA guns for wildcat calibers. But this is not the case for their DA/SA guns. People always say Rugers are built like a tank but they only seem this way because the casting process is inferior to a forged gun.🇺🇸
@@Lilnasty-jo3dc As far as i understand, newer S&W with the Endurance Package are pretty durable...and of course S&W seems to stand behind them when needed.
Loud 'n' proud 🇺🇸
That MF purrrrrrty!!! Dayum! I already own a 4.2 Ruger redhawk but I’m planning to get 629 deluxe in 3 in but this 6.5 looks sweet!
Thanks you.
6.5 perfect length if you want to hit something.
Nice revolver, I just bought the same 629 Classic Deluxe. Which Mothers polish did you use on yours?
The Aluminum/Mag polish from ChinaMart.
gran torino in the back...nise
Yeah I have the wood with finger Groves on my smith & Wesson 41 mag classic hunter
I'm eyeballing some finger grooved wood grips, myself.
Nice gun
Thank you.
Nice 😍🥰
Thank you.
Also plowman you're my favorite guntuber!!! I wish I was better off so I could contribute, but things have gotten tight with this bidenconemy!!! Especially since I'm disabled and on a fixed income. I will hunt with this as it's easier on my back than most rifles.
Don't give it a thought. You are helping by watching and talking to me about it. Thank you 🥃
@@plowboysghosttruth be told you're like the cool uncle that does all the fun stuff!!! You remind me of my favorite uncle and he's almost as cool as you!!!
I’ve never seen a Glock like that before 😂
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I got the same gun with a Leopold 4 power .. it hurts my hand a little bit lol.. screw them plastic fiber sights ..
Nice shooting! I am about to pick up a 44. I was about ready to buy the 629 Classic for 850 but then the I saw the model 29. the action felt soother and the price is $250 more. From what I could tell the only difference was the classic had a double underlug. What is the difference and does it justify the extra $$?
I'm not sure. Is the 29 a new gun?
plowboysghost it was new. I decided to go with the 629 deluxe. I found it online for $791. I should have it in a few days. Where did you get your reloading data? I would like to start reloading some ammo. Looks like your loads are shooting well
@@jeremycrane6592 Several online places including: reloadammo.com/44loads.htm and a pdf version of Handloader Magazine's / Brian Pearce's article on the model 29/629 and loads for it.
I got to get one!
I wish I still had that one.
I wouldn’t mind getting a 4 inch M29 classic or M19
4" is what I had on my mind, with 5" not far behind it.
When i saw this one at the dealer and handled it, i didn't hesitate.
Merry Christmas plowboy! Noce choice in gun I want one for myself but for 900$ on buds thats very rich for my blood however i may be putting a rock island 1911 gi fs 45acp in layaway! Cant decide do i want a ruger gp100 357 magnum unflutted wood grips or a 1911 45 acp more
I've had a GP100 and liked it pretty well. I kept that RIA GI .45 for years and it never malfunctioned once...so that's a hard choice to make.
Merry Christmas to you, too.
@@plowboysghost more and likely might get the ria 1911 gi 45acp because i do wanna customize the grips into punisher grips and put a silver compensater on it take care plowboy!
@@zombiekillerwithblood1233 Sounds kool. Take it easy, zombie killer.
Would you do it all over again with this model if you were going to go shopping for a 44mag again?
I would...and I never would have let go of that one like I did later on, if I had it to do over again.
I have other .44 Magnums, but I will own another one like this one.
What do you like better this or the colt anaconda? having a tough time deciding
You ain't the only one this choice perplexes. The Smith...so long as the barrel isn't canted, is a great gun. I love mine. However...the new Anaconda is a rung higher in fit and finish. I no longer have the Smith in this video, but I have a 4" 29-10 and a no dash 4" Model 57 both of which I love.
I want a new partial underlug 629 6" or 6.5".. whichever it is, to go with what have , too.
I want a longer, new Model 57,as well...so I do love Smith and Wesson revolvers.
I haven't shot the Anaconda yet.
Sir is this a new model,,what year is this made? Thanks
It was a new gun...2018 or 2019 built.
What is a good price for one of these today?
I don't know. The last I saw, the price on this model had gone up from what I'd gave for this one.
If it will fit in the cylinder, that Smith will eat anything a Ruger will.
Hmmm.... that's honestly the first time I've heard that.
Ruger’s have thicker frames because they are cast. Your Smith is forged. Takes less material to do the same job.
@@ramseycattn5941 I agree that the steel is strong enough. Though I know that the Endurance Package Smiths are a lot more durable than the earlier guns, it's been oft repeated that the S&W will prematurely loosen up with a diet of heavy Magnums...such as what's marketed as +P+ from Buffalo Bore.
They specifically exclude the S&W from the list of guns they consider "safe" with that load.
My wife to be said you remind her of Phil Robertson
Heheh. Tell her I take that as a compliment.
East Texas?
NW Alabama
It's midnight and I live in a country where you aren't allowed guns lol
Sorry to hear that.
You going to Virgina rally
I can't travel that far that soon. My wife's wanting me to go ahead and schedule a needed surgery after the first of the year, so i don't know how that's going to work with her work schedule, either.
.41 mag
Glock
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Beautiful