I have a 4 inch blued Model 29, no dash with target grips that has a story behind it. My wife's mom essentially walked out of her life and her grandmother, dad, step mom and another little old lady helped raise her. This little old lady lived next to them and her husband was a cop in a small town from the 1940's to the 1970's. The story I got was he bought this Model 29 when they hit the market immediately and had it sent to gunsmith in Oklahoma, I cannot remember the name of the gunsmith but essentially he slicked it up as the little old lady told me and he did it has a crisp single action trigger and the double action is smooth as silk.
Her husband carried this piece from the 1950's until her retired in the early 1970's and from what I have gathered used it in some gunfights along the way killing one suspect and wounding others. He passed away and his partner in the department that he trained bought the Model 29 from the little old lady and his partner was my uncle. I ended up marrying the little girl this lady helped raise and we had kids and my oldest son loved to stay with this little old lady in the summers when there was no school, they were best buddies.
This little lady passed away about 12 years ago. My uncle came to me about five years ago before he passed and asked me if I would like to buy the Model 29 from him and I did and put it in the safe. Now my oldest son who stayed with the little old lady who's husband was a cop and carried the Model 29 is a rookie cop so he's getting the Model 29 and her husbands dressed uniform night stick which she had given me. I think she would he very happy knowing her little man had her husbands sidearm and night stick.
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