View Full Version : A Brace of .44 Mags
Dagga Boy
12-01-2015, 12:18 PM
It is a grey day here in Dallas. Seems like a good time to post a brace of Mountain Revolvers. These were precursors to the Mountain Gun. My original has been carried and shot a ton and is one of my favorites. Sacrificed a P7 to trade into a second. Now....a holster rig that is both classy yet modern.
Malamute
12-01-2015, 12:36 PM
I had one when they first came out. A local grocery store had a small guns, reloading and sporting goods section. Once I'd done the paperwork with the store manager, we walked over to the grocery cashier, he put the gun on the conveyor, she rang it up, and I walked out with it. I still come across that receipt from the grocery store now and then that says "gun" $330 or whatever it was. Makes me smile.
Hizzie
12-01-2015, 02:09 PM
Love that Mountain Gun barrel profile. So classy.
What difference is there between the Mountain Revolvers and the Mountain Guns?
Very nice. If only they made a blued .44 Special version.
Dagga Boy
12-01-2015, 05:04 PM
What difference is there between the Mountain Revolvers and the Mountain Guns?
"Vapor Finish", all flash chromed trigger and hammer, and pre MIM, supposedly done at the custom shop, one of mine has the cylinder release with no bottom teardrop, no special markings. All black sights. They were super utilitarian guns with a slim barrel profile.
A blued .44 version would essentially be a model 24. Very similar except the Mountain Revolver is a round butt....which many don't like.
Johnny Walker
12-01-2015, 05:08 PM
It is a grey day here in Dallas. Seems like a good time to post a brace of Mountain Revolvers. These were precursors to the Mountain Gun. My original has been carried and shot a ton and is one of my favorites. Sacrificed a P7 to trade into a second. Now....a holster rig that is both classy yet modern.
WOW! Grips appear to be VZ's?
Dagga Boy
12-01-2015, 05:30 PM
WOW! Grips appear to be VZ's?
Yep. I like the VZ's to carry. I do not like shooting full house .44 mags with them. They have zero recoil absorption. I mostly use .44 specials these days. If I need a big bore mega load outdoor revolver, I use my Ruger Alaskan. I do fine with .454's out of it and it seems to less felt recoil than my Magna ported Freedom Arms Casull.
I mostly use .44 specials these days.
I had one of the Mountain Guns. Would have been `98 or so? Sorta like the 696, if I had known how much people would pay for them 20 years later I would have bought several.
I had one box of green and yellow Remington Express 240 grain JFP. I didn't make it through the box. I tried twice. There was enough recoil to tear the skin on my trigger finger where it wrapped around the side of the trigger (first knuckle). The second trip I got the genius plan to try the band-aid first (and it did stop the bleeding). It would have been an absolutely phenomenal .44 SPECIAL. As a magnum...I have no idea what compels some people. Masochism I guess.
Someday I want another 25-5. That was a great idea gun. Factory .45 colt wasn't nearly as rambunctious. Unfortunately mine was a Bangor era gun and was...rough. That's on the list of things to do. Find one that's in reasonably good shape and pay one of the good revolver smiths to do it up right.
Johnny Walker
12-01-2015, 07:44 PM
I had one of the Mountain Guns. Would have been `98 or so? Sorta like the 696, if I had known how much people would pay for them 20 years later I would have bought several.
I had one box of green and yellow Remington Express 240 grain JFP. I didn't make it through the box. I tried twice. There was enough recoil to tear the skin on my trigger finger where it wrapped around the side of the trigger (first knuckle). The second trip I got the genius plan to try the band-aid first (and it did stop the bleeding). It would have been an absolutely phenomenal .44 SPECIAL. As a magnum...I have no idea what compels some people. Masochism I guess.
Someday I want another 25-5. That was a great idea gun. Factory .45 colt wasn't nearly as rambunctious. Unfortunately mine was a Bangor era gun and was...rough. That's on the list of things to do. Find one that's in reasonably good shape and pay one of the good revolver smiths to do it up right.
I love the 25-5's... here is my only specimen at this time and she is actually back at S&W for a master action job. I will load 8.5 grains of unique under a Lyman 454424 265 grain Keith bullet and enjoy the simple pleasure of a large lead bullet smacking steel or paper or whatever.
4734
Dagga Boy
12-01-2015, 08:25 PM
We found that .45 Colt also did a wonderous job when smacking felons as well....;)
Johnny Walker
12-01-2015, 08:30 PM
We found that .45 Colt also did a wonderous job when smacking felons as well....;)
Yes sir.. since 1873, 45 colt been smackin folks. I would love to find a 4" Model 25 ... but that seems to be a tad difficult these days.
Wayne Dobbs
12-01-2015, 09:27 PM
We found that .45 Colt also did a wonderous job when smacking felons as well....;)
It's not pretty, but you have to show them the Hammer, Darryl.
Trooper224
12-02-2015, 03:10 AM
Nice. A Mountain Gun in .45 Colt is one of the few I regret getting rid of.
Wayne Dobbs
12-02-2015, 09:14 AM
Nice. A Mountain Gun in .45 Colt is one of the few I regret getting rid of.
And that exact gun is the lead item in my "Book of Tears" of guns I've sold or traded that I've regretted. I have a pre-lock 625 MG in .45 ACP that is great (and that's killed a couple of truck loads of whitetails), but I really miss the .45 Colt version.
Poconnor
12-02-2015, 10:20 AM
I have a mountain gun 629 I bought when I was in the army back in 91 or 92. I remember I took a payday advance from one of those blood sucker loan companies that are always right outside of post that prey on the young and dumb. I jumped on it because it was a run of 5000 guns and I loved reading Ross Seyfried and Elmer Keith articles. I regret not getting a 686 mountain gun and trading off a 45 colt mountain gun but I kept the .45 acp 625 mountain gun. I wish VZ made round butt to square butt grips.
A blued .44 version would essentially be a model 24. Very similar except the Mountain Revolver is a round butt....which many don't like.
That's what I'd love--a round butt N frame in 44 special. It would fit my hands much better than the square butt guns.
Johnny Walker
12-02-2015, 11:17 AM
It's not pretty, but you have to show them the Hammer, Darryl.
yes we need to see The HAMMER. I agree... pictures speak a thousand words......
yes we need to see The HAMMER. I agree... pictures speak a thousand words......
HAMMER! HAMMER! HAMMER!
It's time again.
okie john
12-02-2015, 12:18 PM
HAAAAMMMMERR, HAAAAMMMMERR, HAAAAMMMMERR...
Okie John
TR675
12-02-2015, 12:52 PM
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FNFAN
12-03-2015, 11:38 AM
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Can't Wait To See It!
I have a mountain gun 629 I bought when I was in the army back in 91 or 92. I remember I took a payday advance from one of those blood sucker loan companies that are always right outside of post that prey on the young and dumb. I jumped on it because it was a run of 5000 guns and I loved reading Ross Seyfried and Elmer Keith articles. I regret not getting a 686 mountain gun and trading off a 45 colt mountain gun but I kept the .45 acp 625 mountain gun. I wish VZ made round butt to square butt grips.
Vz's square butt grips work very well on the rd but guns. Just dont look perfect.
Dagga Boy
12-03-2015, 01:27 PM
I really wish VZ would do a round to Square conversion grip.
Just to get back to the now-main theme of this thread: HAMMER!
Johnny Walker
12-03-2015, 07:20 PM
Just to get back to the now-main theme of this thread: HAMMER!
Come on now nyeti.... show off the HAMMER. Please!
DamonL
12-03-2015, 09:12 PM
Hogue makes conversion grips. I use the rubber one because it has no finger grooves.
https://www.hogueinc.com/grips/S&W/nframe/roundbutt/conversion
Dagga Boy
12-03-2015, 10:24 PM
Hogue makes conversion grips. I use the rubber one because it has no finger grooves.
https://www.hogueinc.com/grips/S&W/nframe/roundbutt/conversion
Up until last week, those were the grips I used (with the finger grooves) for the entire time I owned the gun since the 80's and is why I was able to shoot a lot of full house .44 Mag in it.
FNFAN
12-08-2015, 07:42 PM
Just to get back to the now-main theme of this thread: HAMMER!
:Sigh: I suppose it is gauche to ask for Christmas presents.
okie john
12-08-2015, 08:11 PM
:Sigh: I suppose it is gauche to ask for Christmas presents.
Especially if you're asking the guy who just schooled us on the miracle of Chanukah.
Okie John
Lost River
12-10-2015, 08:01 AM
It is a grey day here in Dallas. Seems like a good time to post a brace of Mountain Revolvers. These were precursors to the Mountain Gun. My original has been carried and shot a ton and is one of my favorites. Sacrificed a P7 to trade into a second. Now....a holster rig that is both classy yet modern.
To paraphrase a "Cooperism":
"Ain't many troubles that a man cain't fix with six hundred dollars and a .good old .44 Magnum"
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