I recently acquired this 629-4 Mountain Gun, my first MG. Nice weight and a great shooter. I don't shoot full house .44 mag loads in my revolvers (but I do in my lever rifles). In the revolvers, I much prefer "lite" .44 mag. loads. My defense load is ProLoad's 200 gr. Gold Dot which flies at about 1050 fps. My practice load is a "clone" of my defense load consisting of a 200 gr. RNFP powered by 12.5 gr. of HS-6 which also flies at about 1050 fps. This is an enjoyable and very comfortable loading to shoot from these revolvers... while full-house .44 magnum loads are just no fun for me from a handgun, these light loadings make a .44 mag revolver lots of fun to shoot without beating up the gun or the shooter. Here are some pics from this afternoon. Unfortunately, I really put the cart before the horse today and decided AFTER making the pics to refresh the finish with Scotchbite pads and a good Flitzing. Now the gun looks even better than in the pics! Unfortunately, the gun arrived wearing the all-too-common Hogue rubber grips (which I detest), but after putting my favorite type of grips on the gun... it really came into it's own... I love it!
