Time For A 5906 Thread!!!

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i just traded for a smith 5906 stainless with the blued trigger and hammer thursday nite anda 15 rnd mag in the box i love the gun it feels the hand and it shoots smooth very reliable i wouldnt hesitate to carry it i do need more magazines for other than the one if anyone knows where to get full caps ata decent price for the smith ,only complaint i really have with the pistol is that reassembly is a bitch:banghead:
 
Well, it's ALMOST a 5906.

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Never owned the 5906 - but came close numerous times! I owned the 659. Great gun - super reliable, but needed cleaning every 250 rounds - so-so accurate (but it may have been me - I had just started shooting handguns).

Owned the 3904 - accurate and reliable but the grip was a little too narrow for me.

Owned the 5944 - super reliable and accurate. Never malfunctioned and I carried it for about a year.

Owned the 3953 and 669. Not super accurate but very reliable.

Recently got a 3913 and have a 908 on layaway (haven't shot either of these yet!).

I like Smith auto's - don't love them - but like them a great deal. If they would just clean up some of the edges around the magazine release and bottom of the trigger guard, I think their ergonomics would be world class. Always thought the 5906 was a little heavy but always had an eye out for a 645 (go figure!)

Very under-rated pistols!

Coffee
 
I bought a PD trade in a few weeks ago got a great deal on it and a couple of hi-caps. It is true pleasure to shoot the sa/da trigger pull is smooth as sillk and I occansionally use it as my CCW. My wife can shoot it and it fits both of our hands very well. It has to be one of the best used gun investments I have made in a long time.
 
Pros:
-9mm
-15rds.
-All Stainless construction: I feel like I'm holding a gun not a toy!
-Heavy, so absorbs recoil nicely
-very good DA pull and great short-setted SA trigger
-Good accuracy
-SUPER-DUPER Reliable: never jams in 1000's of rounds. I mean never.
END

Well personally I feel the 9mm does not have enough recoil to justify lugging around a gun this heavy. But thats my opinion. My personal experience with Smith auto's (4006) makes me never want to own another. Mine was unreliable and not that great in the accuracy department. It did have a good trigger however.
Pat
 
First pistol I bought when I turned 21 was a 5906. Still have it, 10 years and more (bought it used.....) and it is still going. I've had lots of other pistols, but this one has always stayed with me.

In fact for a few years, it was my only pistol.

Got a few thousand rounds through it, never a jam, hiccup, FTE, or a malfunction that wasn't ammo related.

Love it.:D

How's that for love, Paco?

ANM
 
Paco,

Get a 5906 TSW. It's like an improved 5906 in terms of construction, quality and accuracy. Plus it is tactical. Though I don't like the equipment rail.

If you want the ultimate 5906 get the S&W PPC9. Read it's even more accurate than the beautiful 952. Available to L/E only. PPC9 might be the ultimate 9mm target pistol.

Seems like out of the 3rd gen line people love the 5900 ad 4500, and 1006 series. seems like 4006 is worse liked. read that its accurate with 185 grain sunsonic, but anyting lighter and faster, accuracy goes out the door.

the 5906 modelo militar seems good. i wonder if having such a hard rockwell rating, would make it more prone to cracking.

whats are the pros and cons of the 5906M?
 
...Some of these stories are bringing sweet tears of love to my tired eyes...


There is still goodness in this world!

How do ya'll think it compares to say, a sig or glock?

-paco
 
Got a 5906 several months back, another Smith and Wesson "used" gun stamped on the frame with a "U". Essentially this was a demo gun used by Smith sales. When I got it, it appeared unfired and only had wear marks after I shot it.

The best features of the pistol are its weight(used for range and HD only), quality construction, excellent DA trigger and excellent trigger reset. The latter is almost up to the Glock and 1911 and certainly better then any other autos I've fired. Standard 15 round mags are cheap. The SA trigger is a bit heavy, but improving and the gun has yet to hiccup. For me the ergonomics are very good.

Like others have said, the gun doesn't get the respect it deserves.
 
having all three you mentioned paco i think the sig beats my 5906 on trigger pull in both double and single action both beat the glock on trigger pull in my opinion all three are reliable or have been for me i have more expirience with the glock but the smith is a handfull of gun the sig fits just about right (sigpro9mm) and the glock is a very good concealment peice(g23) for me :cool:
 
Super 9

Here is an example that you don't see everyday...the single-action only Super 9. This example came from the factory with three barrels: 9x19mm, 9x21mm, and .356 TSW. I believe that Talos was the distributor for these, primarily intended for the European market. I have seen two others in the States, but these were equipped with only the 9x19mm barrel. (Suffice it to say, the current owner is not interested in selling.)

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Paco,

For my two cents, I carried a P226 for a while, and that is a good pistol, but just too doggone big for a 9mm for me. And the bore axis also seems too high, just like with their smaller 9mm's. I simply shoot Smiths better.

I do have a friend with a very good trigger on his Glock, & we often compare it to the good Smith triggers. (Grins, how is that for a comparison.) But his Glock trigger is pretty rare, and the parts you need can be difficult to find for a street pistol. I think a second generation G19, with his trigger, would be nice to have, but I don't know how to get one.

Overall, I really like a good 5906 a lot. Everything in the whole package is pretty good, and I have a nice one. :D
 
Daniel Watters,

Where could I send my 5906 to become that uber-gun you posted about? I have two slides for mine that work nicely so I'll maybe get a third that would be for super-duper accuracy. Hmmmm.

-Oh, I always hear about people having a problem with the slide-mounted safety. I have a 1911 and I love the set up, but it's like speaking two languages: when I'm on one gun, my brain uses a different part of itself than when I'm using the other. I've got no problems quickly and effectively manipulating the 5906 even though I'm a 1911 accolyte. Go figure.

-I wonder how many shoot-outs this old war horse of a design has been through... This was THE auto with the police forces for many years.

-paco
 
I just picked up a new 5906TSW and I have to say I'm very impressed with it. It's the model with adjustable sights, though I never saw much use for them on a handgun. The feel and weight of the gun seems right for me. I have big hands and am a large guy so I don't see the weight as an issue, even for CCW. The way the pistol points had me sold the minute I picked it up.

Anyway, I fired the gun for the first time last week. I was absolutely stunned at the out-of-the-box accuracy. Shooting at 7 yards (my self-defense drilling distance) I put eight of the first 10 rounds fired from this gun into a 1.5" group. The other two were my fault and ended up making a two-hole-touching group 2" right of center. The range where I shoot is also the shop where I bought the gun and I had to mess with the owner/gunsmith about this. I took the target to him and said, "I think there's something wrong with this gun... Look, I missed the bull twice...." He snatched up the target to put aside as a sales tool. :D THe rest of the night saw me tearing out the centers of the targets and making ragged one-hole groups.

IMNSHO, great gun. Period.
 
Bump in the night..

Anyone know of any online dealers that have any screamin' deals on new/or used S&W 5906's (or the Modelo Militar)?? I checked the latest CDNN catalog and it didn't have anything.

Please help a brotha' (who's got the joneses for an autochuckin' 9mm S&W) out... :eek:
 
My first semiautomatic handgun was a 5904 (alloy frame, blued carbon steel slide) with adjustable sights, similar to the one in Badger Arms' picture but without the hooked trigger guard. It never malfunctioned, but was not particularly accurate (although plenty good for defensive use). I eventually traded it in on a SIG P228.
 
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