Relative to the discussion on the DAO Limited....

I did not get a box with the gun, but S&W customer service did research the serial number on mine and it show's no Product Code/SKU for the pistol on file, it was shipped in 2005.
However, I had them look up the .40 Limited I owned, which is DPC0013 and they confirmed the SKU as 170033.

The DAO gun is serial numbered in the same prefix as the other Limited guns - DPC00xx

Relative to no SKU aspect, it's almost certainly due to being specially handled by the PC when making it in the DAO configuration, I have some articles from Jim P noting the Police Chief in the Chicago suburbs who it was made for.

As for the all stainless .40 Tactical, that was made in the PCD serial number range, I did own PCD0013 in the collection for a time. That gun was not finished the same as the Limited guns, it was not polished the same, and also had the proud barrel (longer than the slide as shown in the pic above by Benton Quest). The Tactical models were DA/SA. The Tactical SKU was 104401.

As Jim P indicates, this is the only known DAO version of the 40 Limited.

Cheers......

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