Just like people and pickup trucks, guns always seem to have their own idiosyncrasies. Depending on the ammunition brand or load, the ejector rod may need a bit of extra encouragement to dump all nine fired cases. The barrel top and frame top are an anti-glare matte black. Sights present your basic fixed square front blade in a square rear notch sight picture. There’s a fair amount of rust freckling the polished metal surfaces, an indicator of its decades spent in humid Florida, so if it’s alloy, it’s obviously got plenty enough steely beef for a. The NRA technical staff said the frame is a steel alloy, and mine grabs a magnet with considerable gusto. The “U” serial number prefix indicates a 1958 manufacture date. My Model 929 still functions satisfactorily, though it shows the usual wear and tear expected from an old, used (but not abused) blued steel handgun. “Other than that, the revolver functioned quite satisfactorily,” the review reads. I learned the same lesson many years later when reassembling the revolver after disassembly and cleaning. “Actually we had to bang the cylinder against the edge of the desk to open it.” Backing off the crane lock adjustment screw resolved the minor problem. “We noted the cylinder of our gun opened with considerable difficulty,” they wrote. American Rifleman reviewed the H&R Model 929 Sidekick when it hit the market the technical staff was not entirely enamored of the Model 929, but then nor were they negative, calling firing tests, “uneventful.” At 40 feet shots landed “in approximately correct position,” with a six o’clock hold utilizing the revolver’s fixed sights. That would be $339.44 in today’s dollars, according to an online consumer price index calculator, and a middle- to lower-end offering at about the same price as Ruger’s then-debut semi-automatic pistol. The Model 929 holds, unsurprisingly, nine rounds of.
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