IIRC, Elmer Keith worked as an armory inspector during WW2. thereby, there were/are rifles with his initials in the inspector’s cartouche that was pressed into the stocks.

check my math.

[…] Model 629 is the stainless steel update to Smith’s classic Model 29 hogleg that was developed by noted shootist Elmer Keith to showcase the then-newly-introduced .44 Rem Mag in the 1950s. Said yeoman work in the […]

[…] Model 629 is the stainless steel update to Smith’s classic Model 29 hogleg that was developed by noted shootist Elmer Keith to showcase the then-newly-introduced .44 Rem Mag in the 1950s. Said yeoman work in the […]