Have shot a 329PD at the range enough to get the sights adjusted and learn the trigger. Loved the look of the wood grips, but dang that smarted when shooting 240 gr full power ammunition. Tried VZ grips, which looked great but maybe felt worse. Found that factory X-frame grips were decent. It is still a 25-ounce 44 magnum, so it is always gonna be right there on recoil. A 360PD shooting 158gr American Eagle .357 magnum ammunition is so much worse than the 329PD.
Those wood grips are nice but you might wantcto get some X-frame grips. They have some cushioning built in. The 329PD is a beast with full power 240 grain bullets. A good shooting glove will tame things also. The 329PD is made for all those times you need an easily carried revolver with a fair amount of power. Fiocchi makes 240gr JSP ammunition that is below advertised velocity and great for practice.
Ha, I watched this video a year ago, and I was just seconds away from making vritually the same comment. This is how bushingless 1911s come apart. We carry punches and chopsticks on our range bags to take those types of guns apart. The pin is shorter because you don't want somehting pressing against it (llike a table) and pushing it out. Slide stops use to break a lot more often, but good steel solves that problem. And yeah overhand is a better method of dropping the slide for most guns.
I really wanted to see someone do this since I got one but now that I see it idk if I can un-see it because I'm very ocd and like to take my guns down all the way to clean them but idk now haha
What I never hear people talking about is the effect of the compensator when using plus P / hot loads. The more pressure round has behind it the more effective you will see the compensator become.
@@haydenberlin9249 Unless you need to run 357 to qualify for a specific class or power factor ... 929 is the way to go. Check out the BMT mooner for loading / unloading moon clips and hammer kits from Apex Tactical. Email me if you have any questions hangfiretv2020@gmail.com
@unclehangfire thanks mate, I really appreciate it! Little different because I'm in Australia but I'm sure there will be something similar to Apex Tactical here.
I like training in all light conditions, I teach low-light classes, Raccoon's aren't bioluminescent, neither are home intruders, it shoots great with extra weight out front (so do I) and it looks cool.
Informative and great video. I'm actually looking at 357s to buy. I know it's expensive, but it's not that much more expensive from a performance center Smith or a Colt Python. I think I'm leaning toward this. Just got to find where to buy one from
I've had one for over a year now, and put maybe 600 rounds through it. Trigger is god awful. Horrendously long double action that will jam up if you stage it wrong. Single action is so stiff and breaks vaguely. The reset on both is really long and has to be yanked off completely or you'll jam it up. The machine work is perfect, yes, I absolutely love the precision of it for how traditional it looks. There are a thousand little tiny surfaces that have to be done exactly right and colt did a great job. Stainless is very easy to hand polish if/when it gets scratched. I put Harrison Snake Sights on mine, just replaces the rear blade itself and retains the factory leaf sight bade. No issues, solid lockup.
They claim it's was new. I emailed Spohr with pictures. They said oh I'm sorry you're not 100% happy. Yes, rust shouldn't be there. But you can polish the rust off. I ask you this. When you buy a brand new $4000 gun do you expect to scrub metal pitting rust off it?
No. This gun is running now and I am not reinventing the wheel here. Brass is not going to "degrade" under tens of pounds. Smith used this type of stop long before this video. Don't use the idea if you don't like it.
Had a 70's 6" Python. Was a safe queen so eventually sold it. Bought a new 4.25" model last year. Shimmed the wobbly site. Only complaint is the new laminated grips have no figure and are so dark, look like black plastic. Looking for new grips more like the old ones but won't PAY $400 for originals. Will probably go w/ Houges!
When I was a boy I saw an advertise on Guns & Ammo of a product named AGIMATIC. It was 1983, I don't know what is an AGIMATIC gun clening system, but a few years later I started to think that, maybe, the system was a kind of ultrasonic cleaner. Probably I will never know what WAS the agimatic. I suspect I saw it on Guns & Ammo december 1982 (with a Garand on the cover).
I use a rubber stop since 1989. Every gun should have something to make triggers work better, but most of them just have NOTHING. This topic is so important that, as usual, it has few views, few likes and no comments. Humanity is too stupid.
@@thanapornkeawnuratchadasor9318 Yes. A piece of rubber glued with loctite super bonder or similar. When the gun isn't mine, even a piece of rubber with scotch tape works (in Brazil some cops have fun arresting shooters with registered unloaded guns... just for fun, so, many times I use gun club's guns).
I have the Combat model, with three 20-rd mags and installed red dot, for $600. Put about 100 rounds through it, then shot for groups at 50 yards using the red dot. Got a five-shot 5" group, with four shots at 3 7/8". Smooth shooter, and no malfs of any kind. These are great guns.
Of note the latest Pythons with the unfitted cylinders look great but you cannot remove the cylinder for cleaning by just taking out the cylinder screw.. You have to take the cylinder apart from the crane first. Other than that Ilov the new Pythons.
