Local anamoly no doubt - I've been looking for an older model 29 forever, at least from before I stumbled across the first 57.
Actually, my first revolver since I was a young'un was a 29-2 from November of 2003. I crowed about it
here. Ah, memories are made of this.
Regrettably, the guy that sold it to me lost his job and requested that I sell it back for the low price he'd put on it. As these things sometimes go, I'm still waiting for the 500.00. It would be into 2007 before I got another (DA) revolver and that was the first of the 57s. There's been two since and still no 29s.
The 29-2 was so slick from Magnaport that I thought something was wrong with the 57. Me
whining. I wouldn't have believed I'd miss that 29-2 as much as I do - I hate porting but could nearly overlook it due to the redeeming virtues.
Not that anyone would be interested in my travails with DA revolvers but I was digging up the links out of curiousity. Except for a couple Rugers from decades back my entire revolver history is posted on THR - that's unh... weird. Interesting (to me), most of my posts have a drive-by by Old Fuff setting me straight on one thing or another.
There's an Anaconda that's scratching the .44 itch until the holy grail 29 comes along. Is Fuff watching this thread? If not I should probably fess up to actually buying that pre-17 he pointed out. There's a couple spots with the finish missing that didn't show up in the auction pics (actually, one looked like flash reflection) so I'm guessing my shooting it won't cause any collectors to have apoplexy - shiva knows I paid enough for it.
Youse guys (that's New York for "y'all") are a bad influence. Dang rotational things are addictive. Sorry about the rambling reminiscinces.