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Originally posted by dennis40x:



4506 no dash

VERY nice! I especially like the trigger guard treatment. Custom or Factory?

This very thread led me into a mindless passion for a 4506-1. I examined and dry-fired several ex-police examples, including two of the 4566. I finally bought the dirtiest and most scuffed 4506-1 because it has the best SA and DA trigger pulls of all that I had handled. I suppose that I'll have to ship it to S&W for a refurb job. I bought the 4506-1 to shoot now and then, not as a collector's item. Thanks for leading yet another innocent S&W fan farther down the primrose path!

I return my tempters' favor by alerting them to Midway's clearance sale on S&W parts. The sale ends 28 August 2008.

(Evil chortle while twirling mustasche!)

Don't know how I missed this one . Carried a 4506 for years while on patrol, great pistol, would feed empty cases, never had a bobble. You have a great gun sir!

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Originally posted by StVitus:

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Originally posted by dennis40x:



4506 no dash

VERY nice! I especially like the trigger guard treatment. Custom or Factory?

I apologize for the delay in responding. The trigger guard treatment is custom. Mine had the concave configuration, with hook, and meat grinder checkering. This change was done on an industrial belt grinder. Attention to detail was required. The frame was then refinished.

This is a thread I posted on August 7 just after purchasing my first Smith & Wesson which just happened to be a 4506-1.

I received my first Smith & Wesson last Monday. I was excited to know that I could actually put a history together on a pistol that was manufactured in 1995. I first saw it on GunBroker.com about a week ago and became interested in it when I found out it was only 100 miles South of where I live. I called the folks that had it and was able to work out a deal for me to become the new owner.

As the pictures show it was originally owned by the Fresno County Sheriff Department. I called and spoke with a Lt. Lancaster and he informed me the pistol had been purchased in 1995 or 96 with a group of pistols. He gave me the name and e-mail address of the Deputy Sheriff, Timothy Scott Herzog, not a nicer gentleman in this world, that it was issued to.

I e-mailed him and he was nice enough to give me a history of this 4506-1. He was issued the unit in 1998 when he entered the Peace Officers Academy. He carried the weapon until sometime in 2007 when his department sent the group back to Smith & Wesson as trades when they went to the 4566 “Tactical” model. He could not even estimate how many rounds he had put through the gun but said that during the time he carried it the only thing that was ever done to it was to change the trigger play spring.

He said it never failed to operate correctly and was a very accurate gun.

He confirmed through their Armory that he was the only one to have ever been issued this piece.

I hope I have not bored you with this thread but I thought it to be unusual to be able to put a history together on a pistol that was manufactured in December of 1995 and was carried by a Fresno County Deputy Sheriff until I purchased it in July of 2008..

I look forward to many days at the range with this fine Smith & Wesson pistol and many days of enjoying this forum.



I love the pistol.
djh

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I carried the 645 then the 4506 for years. Like someone above said. It will feed anything; never failed in any way what-so-ever. I just got another 4506 today LNIB and cant wait to get outside and shoot.

I can't wait to run into a Fresno Co gun one of these days, it'll be a keeper.

The Fresno guns are out there. I have a new one that was not issued. Apparently they had more guns made than were purchased. Fresno now issues the 4566 if I am not mistaken. I have a vacation house in Fresno County and run into deps frequently.

Thanks to all who posted pics of their sweet 4506s. I still have not gotten around to shooting the one I got in Feb.

I just loaded:

45 rounds of 230 gr. FMJ bullets on top of 5.3 grs. of W-231. and
45 rounds of 230 gr. FMJ bullets on top of 5.3 grs. of HP-38.

I can't wait to see which one does the best in my 4506-1.

Which one do you think will do the best?

djh