5906 smith and wesson 9mm value12/31/2023 ![]() It was with that handgun, that I had to pull it from the holster and put in a man’s face, who threatened to “walk all over me….” – I was deeply into the martial arts back then, but this man was big enough to do to me, what he threatened to do – and I didn’t have any back-up at that time, and when I put the gun in his face, I simply told him “no sir, you are not going to walk all over me…” and he meekly said “Okay” and came back to the security office without any further problems – I had a lot of confidence in the S&W 39-2 model. I also carried an S&W Model 39-2 quite often – it was an 8+1 round gun, and it worked without hesitation – all the time. Eventually the feed ramps on these guns were better finished, and better JHP ammo came along, that would feed in those guns. One thing that is often mentioned is that, there weren’t many companies making JHP 9mm back there, and more often than not, it wouldn’t feed reliably into any handguns – even the S&W marked 9mm JHP or JSP 9mm boxed ammo wouldn’t reliably feed in their guns, so most of us carried FMJ ammo if we wanted the gun to go “bang” every time we pulled the trigger, instead of trying to get round to chamber – not good. Later on, S&W developed some double-action only handguns – they had a long, but very smooth trigger pull for each shot – I liked them a lot. Needless to say, the single-action trigger pull was much shorter and smoother, resulting in more hits on the target. A lot of people never could get the hang on transition from that first shot being fires double-action, to the remaining shots being fired single-action. In any event, you had a long double-action trigger pull for the first shot, unless you manually cocked the hammer. You then had the option of either keeping the decocking lever in the down position, which meant it was on-safe, or you could push the decocking lever back up – and you could fire the gun by simply pulling the trigger, this lead to a lot of confusion for many – and they needed to decide how they wanted to carry the 5904, either with the safety on, or off. When you chambered a round, you would then decock the hammer, after that you could remove the magazine and insert another round into it. The 5904 also had the single-action/double-action trigger pull. It has a 4-inch barrel, and weighs-in at 26.5 ounces – pretty light for those days, when many handguns were made completely out of steel – bringing the weight up, up, up there. First of all, it was only made from 1989 to 1998 – so it had a very short production life, all things considered. Let’s take a close look at the Model 5904, and see what else it offers. We also had an ambidextrous decocking lever on the slide, too. The trigger pull was much better than the previous models of the Model 59, as well. The grip panels – it was now a single wrap-arond grip that simply slid into place, instead of having two grip panels – really a great improvement. The adjustable-sight version – the sights were really great, but much too large, in my humble opinion. The fixed sights were much better than those on the original, which were often loose in the slide. It also came with either fixed sights or adjustable sights. It now came with a 15-shot magazine and fed more reliably, too – the original 14-round magazines had weak springs, and the guns often failed to get that next round in the magazine up there fast enough for the slide to pick it up. Over the years, the Model 59 progressed, with newer and better models like the various 59-2, 59-3 and other models, until S&W introduced an all-new version of this gun, called the 5904 – it was a much better handgun than the original versions. And as I recall, one of the first “saves” wearing a Second Chance soft body armor, while on patrol. ![]() ![]() became chief of police of that growing little town. At some point, this police officer, Mike C. I liked it – a lot, and eventually picked-up one for my own use. I stopped one night, before going home, to visit a police officer out side the store, and there on his dash was a new Model 59, a 14-shot 9mm semi-auto handgun. 357 Magnum snubby revolver most of the time. I was introduced to the S&W Model 59 while working as the assistant security manager of a large department store, in a place called Matteson, Illinois. So, I had to dig down and find a nice representation of an all-metal gun – this doesn’t mean a gun with a steel frame, but one manufactured out of metal – in this case – the frame is manufactured out of Aluminum alloy – the S&W Model 5904. Many of our readers are requesting more articles on all-metal handguns, and its getting a bit harder to do these, as most semi-auto handguns today usually have a polymer frame. ![]()
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