I really would like to hear from anyone who actually has/had one of these pistols. I had a 5903SSV many years ago and let it go. The 5967 seems to have attached itself to my brain in some fashion and I'd love to share the burden while persuing one. You guys who build frankenguns are my heroes. I just don't have the skills to do that myself.....Zebulon

A forum name member named NitroDave has a 5967 from Lew Horton. I remember him posting pictures of it once. IIRC The 5967 is a blued 3914 slide on the stainless 5906 frame. Having built a couple SSV frankenguns it's really really simple. As simple as reassembling any 3rd Gen. Finding a complete 3914 slide for sale on the other hand might take a little more time.

Found an ad from GA for one that sold there, described as follows, just FYI:

"This is a Lew Horton limited edition S&W model 5967. According to the Lew Horton Distributors WEB site only 500 of these were made as a special offering in 1990. The gun is a 3914 carbon steel slide on a 5906 stainless steel frame, two-tone finish. The sights are Novak Lo-Mount fixed three dot sights. Product code is 103048 which is a 4" barrel and first trigger guard. Gun comes with original box, manual and warranty brochure, tool kit still sealed in plastic and two 15-round mags. Gun has only been fired at the factory so is ANIB. ,,, Gun was originally purchased in 1991."

http://www.gunsamerica.com/976186409...ith_Wesson.htm



Here are two views of the pistol that accompanied the ad:

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Vigil....Thank you for that. Here's the sick part. I was waiting payment from another pistol so I could buy that very gun. My guy bailed and I had to beg the Seller of this one to let me off the hook after I had commited to buy it. I'm still sick about it. A mistake I'll never make again....I won't buy until the money is in my hand. Zebulon

Just buy a cheap 5906 & a 3914 from iAmmo. Then you can keep the Franken-5967 and sell the 3914 Long Slide to recover some funds!

So I could put the slide from my 3913 on my 5906?

Wow, Zeb....sorry to bring up painful memories!

An interesting pistol, nevertheless. Hope you can find another one, but at least there's always the alternative of building a Frankengun from the 3914 and 5906.

Interesting thread, too. Thanks for starting it.

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Sorry....wrong photos.....Here is the one I missed out on. Someone here probably bought it....maybe my Forum Brother who is hiding it from me right now..... Zebulon

mlk18.....If Nitro Dave is your very best friend, or if he owes you his life, or you're his Brother In law....tell him how happy I'd be to meet him.... Zeb

Yes!

John

Thanks. Somehow I'd missed this bit of knowledge. I have no intention of firing it that way, but I'll have to see how it looks.

Edit:Well what to you know, it does mate up just fine!

Yes, if the action is the same (DAO, TDA, etc.), the generation is the same and the caliber is the same you are good to go matching slides and frames. This is not true for the 915, 910 and/or every other series. I have mixed and matched 59XX, 69XX and 39XX slide/barrel combos and all of them functioned just fine.

I don't know nitro Dave other than beng around when he was posting about his awesome 5967. On a side note there is better way to search the Smith & Wesson forum then using the built in search tool. Go to Google and type in "site:smith-wessonforum.com 5967" and everything ever posted about that model including pictures will show up. You can of course substitute 5967 for anything you're looking for.

That is a sweet piece of information, thanks for posting it.

Probably obvious, but it's not the same for the TSW guns either. My 3913TSW slide will not fit on my 3913 or 3914, nor will their slides fit on the 3913TSW slide. The TSW rails are thicker.

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mlk18....Thanks for that tip....I'll be using it often....Zebulon

Ditto. The search feature here leaves much to be desired.

No problem, glad you can use that little tip. Search functions, like everything else we do, takes a toll on servers and bandwidth. I prefer Google to carry the load and the awesome S&W forum to just provide good data, interesting discussions and pictures that make me green with envy.

I don't know about anyone else, but my 3914 has a 3.5" barrel. The firearm in the picture look more like a 5904 slide on a 5906, but with the safety/decocker stainless not blue.

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That's definitely a 3914 slide with a 3.5" barrel you can tell by looking at the length of the dustcover compared to the slide. A 5904 slide would stick out noticeably farther past the dustcover.

As you can see in this picture of a 5904:

My favorite gen 3 is a model 5967 I've had from new, unfired in the box. I doubt S&W will or Lew Horton will ever remake it.

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Arm,

Thank you for your service. I’m just puzzled and I ask this purely out of curiosity, but how can your 5967 be your favorite 3rd gen. if you’ve never enjoyed shooting it?

Sam

Just the joy of owning it and, handling it I guess. Trust me the temptation to shoot it is always there, perhaps one day before I expire I might just do that. At a production number of 477 made, it's the lowest production pistol I own. Well, I'd like to pass it on to someone else in that condition. Right now I have plenty of revolvers to enjoy shooting, I only own several pistols, I own dozens of revolvers .....revolvers are king to me.