I haven’t looked at this piece in ages, so I thought that I would be a good time to pull it out, dust it off and get re-acquainted with it. This is a circa 1975 Model 29-2, that I received in 1984, as partial payment for a stroker build on a 1982 FXRS. The Safariland shoulder rig also came with the gun.
Being a person that likes modified big bore stuff, I found this thing is irresistible; although like a big inch, fat tire machine, the balance between form and function appears to favor its form…that’s ok, though. If you can’t manage enough control to hit the predator with one of the six rounds, the racket this thing makes should be enough to stun him or her long enough for you to walk over and beat them to death with it; she’s no friggin’ featherweight!
The external mods include a shortened 2.75”, magnaported barrel; “bobbed” hammer spur; ivory inlay rear sight; shotgun bead front sight; Parkerized frame; rosewood grips. Additionally, the yoke was modified with a ball detent mechanism. It seems to me that it would have been easier to have modified a 3” M-29; although that may not have worked out in the original plan for the gun…hard to say at this point.