S&W 629 Mountain Gun

Van Dorsten Custom Firearms in Sheridan Wyoming did the gunsmithing and Woza is she sweet..

“A properly setup mountain gun, level 2 trigger and action job, bobbed hammer, recountured and polished trigger and a fiber optic front sight. Setup for the mountains of Wyoming”

[The Shooters Apprentice]

I currently have 4 mountain guns. A first run hard chromed Mountain revolver 44 mag, a 25-13 45 colt and two of the new ones, a 10mm and a 44 mag. The 45 colt is blued and probably my favorite D/A sixgun. Ive been debating cutting down the barrel on my 2nd model hand ejector 44 that is a 6.5" to make a 4" gun that would be just about like a Mt gun with fixed sights.

200gr XTP 44 Specials vs 300gr XTP Meathammer 44 Magnum

Culina grips with feather checkering by Greg’s grips in NC

I'm a function over form guy, but there's something about those grips that catches my eye.

The stocks that came on it are without question excellent stocks & fit the hand very well

I had the chance to purchase these grips prior to seeing the 629 in person but I jumped on them & then found someone to lightly checker them & it took 8ish months from buying them to finally getting them on the gun

They are made for round butt N frame and actually could be tweaked a tad for this N frame as it’s not quite exactly the normal N frame

John Taffin article about the grips

https://americanhandgunner.com/handguns/...tom-grips/

And::
https://www.americanrifleman.org/content...ver-grips/

They are incredible grips, really fit my hand most excellent but are/were a tad slick this the checkering