Not sure if the pics are going to show but as you can see it's not perfect.
It's had the recall done already. They marked the frame with 2 dots by the decocker to show it has been done.Have you called S&W? Supposedly there was a recall but you would have to go to the S&W forum to find out more since I don't recall.
It's had the recall done already. They marked the frame with 2 dots by the decocker to show it has been done.
Decent price on the rarer 5903.
https://www.armslist.com/posts/11679086/bloomington-handguns-for-sale--smith---wesson-model-5903
*not my gun or associated in any way.
Some 4006 TSW's at CDNN if anybody needs one:
https://www.cdnnsports.com/s-w-4006tsw-40s-w-stainless-trade-in-g-vg.html?___SID=U#.XrRw66hKjIU
If copper custom in valpo still has some you get 3 mags for the same price instead of one. Otherwise I believe the peak of chp 4006 surplus has come. As the folks on the s&w forum believe around 10k total were made.
Is that your LGS?
I saw those and they're a bargain. The TSW's don't have quite as nice a trigger as the earlier DAO guns but they do have other advantages. It'll be a nice shootin' brick,....that's for sure.
Different hammer/trigger geometry on the TSW guns(most of them anyway). They can have 'good' triggers, but they won't be equivalent to the earlier models which for lack of a better term fire from half-cock. The TSW series came out as a cost cutting imho utilizing standard frames and slides and fire from a quarter-cock,.....so the pull will be longer and a bit heavier on those.
Quick guide:
If the slide has the round plug in place of the safety/decocker it's an early model DAO.
If the slide has the kidney shaped plug it's a TSW. Only exception I know of is the 4053 of which there are two models. The first 4053 is a compact single-stack built on a .45 frame. The 4053TSW is a compact double-stack built on the 9mm/.40 frame. Both have round plugs with the early action.
My understanding is that most if not all TSW guns have MIM internals(remember that cost cutting I mentioned earlier?). But from what I hear the MIM internals do tend to be smoother from the factory than the older forged series of parts and people who know far more about these guns than I do claim the MIM parts are better in every way. Except that they don't take to tuning as well as forged parts, but then again the claim is that they don't need it. I can't say from experience,......I've got 40 or 50 different DAO models but not a single TSW gun outside of three of the 4053TSW's. No kidney guns here yet.