Smith & Wesson Forum

Go Back   Smith & Wesson Forum > Smith & Wesson Semi-Automatic Pistols > Smith & Wesson Semi-Auto Pistols

Notices

Smith & Wesson Semi-Auto Pistols Other Smith & Wesson Semi-Automatic Pistols from the 1950's to Present


Reply
 
Thread Tools Display Modes
  #1  
Old 04-20-2017, 02:14 PM
StephenWhoDat's Avatar
StephenWhoDat StephenWhoDat is offline
Member
Good deal or GREAT deal?! Model 5906 Good deal or GREAT deal?! Model 5906 Good deal or GREAT deal?! Model 5906 Good deal or GREAT deal?! Model 5906 Good deal or GREAT deal?! Model 5906  
Join Date: Feb 2017
Location: Louisiana
Posts: 561
Likes: 2,512
Liked 987 Times in 327 Posts
Cool Good deal or GREAT deal?! Model 5906

A guy locally who I've dealt with twice before has a 5906 in excellent condition with THREE original magazines that he will let me add to my collection of 3rd Gen Smiths for $375. This is not a police trade-in 5906 and does not have the original box with it, but I've seen it in person and it is in excellent shape. As a 3rd Gen fanatic, I'd be stupid not to jump on this before he offers it to someone else, right? I'm pretty sure I'm going to pull the trigger, just wanted to hear some other thoughts and opinions. In my opinion, this is a great deal even if it only came with one magazine. What say you? Thanks.
Reply With Quote
  #2  
Old 04-20-2017, 02:28 PM
petepeterson's Avatar
petepeterson petepeterson is offline
Member
Good deal or GREAT deal?! Model 5906 Good deal or GREAT deal?! Model 5906 Good deal or GREAT deal?! Model 5906 Good deal or GREAT deal?! Model 5906 Good deal or GREAT deal?! Model 5906  
Join Date: Dec 2012
Posts: 3,039
Likes: 6,276
Liked 4,872 Times in 1,883 Posts
Default

I don't know the market in your area, but here in PA that would be decent. I sold one last year that was in good shape (not great) with one mag for 350.
__________________
Because of the metric system?
Reply With Quote
The Following User Likes This Post:
  #3  
Old 04-20-2017, 02:30 PM
mcoe74's Avatar
mcoe74 mcoe74 is offline
US Veteran
Good deal or GREAT deal?! Model 5906 Good deal or GREAT deal?! Model 5906 Good deal or GREAT deal?! Model 5906 Good deal or GREAT deal?! Model 5906 Good deal or GREAT deal?! Model 5906  
Join Date: Nov 2011
Location: SW Florida
Posts: 1,726
Likes: 530
Liked 299 Times in 243 Posts
Default

IMO, based on your description, it is a decent deal. What are you waiting for? Go get it. Please remember to post pictures.
Reply With Quote
The Following User Likes This Post:
  #4  
Old 04-20-2017, 02:35 PM
MWater MWater is offline
Member
Good deal or GREAT deal?! Model 5906 Good deal or GREAT deal?! Model 5906 Good deal or GREAT deal?! Model 5906 Good deal or GREAT deal?! Model 5906 Good deal or GREAT deal?! Model 5906  
Join Date: Oct 2015
Location: DeKalb, IL
Posts: 83
Likes: 44
Liked 105 Times in 42 Posts
Default

Get it. These prices are only going up.
Reply With Quote
The Following User Likes This Post:
  #5  
Old 04-20-2017, 03:05 PM
TNZ71's Avatar
TNZ71 TNZ71 is offline
Member
Good deal or GREAT deal?! Model 5906 Good deal or GREAT deal?! Model 5906 Good deal or GREAT deal?! Model 5906 Good deal or GREAT deal?! Model 5906 Good deal or GREAT deal?! Model 5906  
Join Date: May 2016
Location: In transit
Posts: 820
Likes: 1,397
Liked 2,335 Times in 509 Posts
Default

Quote:
Originally Posted by mcoe74 View Post
IMO, based on your description, it is a decent deal. What are you waiting for? Go get it. Please remember to post pictures.
Sounds like a good deal and yes pictures or it didn't happen.
Reply With Quote
The Following User Likes This Post:
  #6  
Old 04-20-2017, 03:29 PM
BAM-BAM BAM-BAM is offline
Member
 
Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: A Burb of the Burgh
Posts: 14,786
Likes: 1,659
Liked 19,895 Times in 8,796 Posts
Default

Privately owned w/ 3 mags.........say $325 for the gun.............

LOL.......why are you asking..........................


Reply With Quote
The Following 2 Users Like Post:
  #7  
Old 04-20-2017, 03:43 PM
StephenWhoDat's Avatar
StephenWhoDat StephenWhoDat is offline
Member
Good deal or GREAT deal?! Model 5906 Good deal or GREAT deal?! Model 5906 Good deal or GREAT deal?! Model 5906 Good deal or GREAT deal?! Model 5906 Good deal or GREAT deal?! Model 5906  
Join Date: Feb 2017
Location: Louisiana
Posts: 561
Likes: 2,512
Liked 987 Times in 327 Posts
Default

Don't worry, pictures will be coming in a few days!
Reply With Quote
  #8  
Old 04-20-2017, 04:35 PM
Sevens Sevens is offline
Member
Good deal or GREAT deal?! Model 5906 Good deal or GREAT deal?! Model 5906 Good deal or GREAT deal?! Model 5906 Good deal or GREAT deal?! Model 5906 Good deal or GREAT deal?! Model 5906  
Join Date: Mar 2015
Location: Ohio
Posts: 7,855
Likes: 9,465
Liked 14,848 Times in 5,049 Posts
Default

I say yes, great deal. If it was me, I suppose I would buy due to price but only with the intention of forwarding the deal to one of my many gun people. I say this because I own two 5906's and though I love most all 1-2-3rd Gens, there really is only so much use I can get from a 5906 and three might be too many, haha.

If it was an adjustable sight model, I would be far less excited.
Reply With Quote
The Following 2 Users Like Post:
  #9  
Old 04-20-2017, 05:20 PM
fiasconva's Avatar
fiasconva fiasconva is offline
Member
Good deal or GREAT deal?! Model 5906 Good deal or GREAT deal?! Model 5906 Good deal or GREAT deal?! Model 5906 Good deal or GREAT deal?! Model 5906 Good deal or GREAT deal?! Model 5906  
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: York County, VA
Posts: 3,779
Likes: 0
Liked 4,920 Times in 1,816 Posts
Default

I'd be all over it if I could. They go for at least $100 more than that around here IF you can find one.
__________________
Why duck?? It's a 9mm!
Reply With Quote
  #10  
Old 04-20-2017, 07:02 PM
S&W Rover's Avatar
S&W Rover S&W Rover is offline
Member
Good deal or GREAT deal?! Model 5906 Good deal or GREAT deal?! Model 5906 Good deal or GREAT deal?! Model 5906  
Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: USA
Posts: 1,342
Likes: 1,255
Liked 1,134 Times in 521 Posts
Default

Sounds like a good price.

Not having seen a picture, I have to say I prefer 5906's with the Novak low-mount style rear sights compared to the larger adjustable rear sight with the "ears," which I think is clunky looking (although some people love 'em).

I'd go for it, but I already have a nice one! Here's a picture of mine!
__________________
S&W Rover

Last edited by S&W Rover; 04-21-2017 at 12:58 AM.
Reply With Quote
The Following 3 Users Like Post:
  #11  
Old 04-20-2017, 07:26 PM
AlHunt AlHunt is offline
Member
Good deal or GREAT deal?! Model 5906 Good deal or GREAT deal?! Model 5906 Good deal or GREAT deal?! Model 5906 Good deal or GREAT deal?! Model 5906 Good deal or GREAT deal?! Model 5906  
Join Date: Jun 2014
Posts: 2,349
Likes: 5,455
Liked 2,773 Times in 1,260 Posts
Default

It's afair deal as long as it doesn't have the giant gormy sights and enormous square trigger guard.
__________________
Just Say No - To Social Media
Reply With Quote
The Following User Likes This Post:
  #12  
Old 04-20-2017, 07:40 PM
03Fatboy's Avatar
03Fatboy 03Fatboy is offline
Member
Good deal or GREAT deal?! Model 5906 Good deal or GREAT deal?! Model 5906 Good deal or GREAT deal?! Model 5906 Good deal or GREAT deal?! Model 5906 Good deal or GREAT deal?! Model 5906  
Join Date: Oct 2009
Location: Long Beach, CA
Posts: 1,386
Likes: 876
Liked 994 Times in 442 Posts
Default Good deal or GREAT deal?! Model 5906

Huh, I think it's a great deal as long as it has the clunky adjustable sights. Heck, the square trigger guard isn't bad either. (Btw, I'm just messing with the two above post)Good deal or GREAT deal?! Model 5906

Back on topic now, Be sure to share picture! I have a 5906TSW with factory night sights and boy does it shoot real real well.
__________________
USS ZELLARS
DD-777

Last edited by 03Fatboy; 04-20-2017 at 10:50 PM.
Reply With Quote
The Following User Likes This Post:
  #13  
Old 04-20-2017, 08:48 PM
Sevens Sevens is offline
Member
Good deal or GREAT deal?! Model 5906 Good deal or GREAT deal?! Model 5906 Good deal or GREAT deal?! Model 5906 Good deal or GREAT deal?! Model 5906 Good deal or GREAT deal?! Model 5906  
Join Date: Mar 2015
Location: Ohio
Posts: 7,855
Likes: 9,465
Liked 14,848 Times in 5,049 Posts
Default

I totally respect anyone who likes the "indestructible" adjustable rear sight even though I'm dead firm in being opposed to the look.

Here's what I will NEVER understand:

Why? Why the huge protective wings? I can understand durability I guess, I don't think anyone would suggest they are fragile. But in the real world, cops and other armed and uniformed professionals carried revolvers with adjustable sights for countless decades. S&W Model 15's, 19's 66's and 67's worked over every square mile of this great nation and if anyone EVER suggested that rear sight was a liability, it would be the first time I have ever heard it.

If they were svelte and tank-tough, hell yeah. But these hahaha, svelte they are NOT!
Reply With Quote
The Following User Likes This Post:
  #14  
Old 04-20-2017, 08:59 PM
TNZ71's Avatar
TNZ71 TNZ71 is offline
Member
Good deal or GREAT deal?! Model 5906 Good deal or GREAT deal?! Model 5906 Good deal or GREAT deal?! Model 5906 Good deal or GREAT deal?! Model 5906 Good deal or GREAT deal?! Model 5906  
Join Date: May 2016
Location: In transit
Posts: 820
Likes: 1,397
Liked 2,335 Times in 509 Posts
Default

I've got several of each but the profile of the adjustable sights to me look the best.
Attached Images
File Type: jpg IMG_0602.jpg (85.8 KB, 72 views)
File Type: jpg IMG_0297.jpg (120.9 KB, 69 views)
Reply With Quote
The Following User Likes This Post:
  #15  
Old 04-20-2017, 11:59 PM
HCH HCH is offline
Member
Good deal or GREAT deal?! Model 5906 Good deal or GREAT deal?! Model 5906 Good deal or GREAT deal?! Model 5906 Good deal or GREAT deal?! Model 5906 Good deal or GREAT deal?! Model 5906  
Join Date: Jan 2012
Location: Hancock County Ohio
Posts: 710
Likes: 2,507
Liked 525 Times in 235 Posts
Default

The last 5906 in great condition I saw at my local NW Ohio gun store was $425. Had it been $375, I would have bought it and called it a good deal.
Reply With Quote
The Following User Likes This Post:
  #16  
Old 04-21-2017, 09:01 PM
85V65Sabre's Avatar
85V65Sabre 85V65Sabre is offline
Member
Good deal or GREAT deal?! Model 5906 Good deal or GREAT deal?! Model 5906 Good deal or GREAT deal?! Model 5906 Good deal or GREAT deal?! Model 5906 Good deal or GREAT deal?! Model 5906  
Join Date: Dec 2014
Posts: 654
Likes: 728
Liked 648 Times in 281 Posts
Default Good deal or GREAT deal?! Model 5906

DON'T BUY IT!!!
Send me a PM with his contact info and I will fall on that sword.Good deal or GREAT deal?! Model 5906

I've seen very few 3rd gens locally in the past several months, the well used ones that I have seen are going for $450-$500.Good deal or GREAT deal?! Model 5906

Last edited by 85V65Sabre; 04-21-2017 at 09:05 PM.
Reply With Quote
The Following 2 Users Like Post:
Reply

Thread Tools
Display Modes

Posting Rules
Forum Jump

Similar Threads
Thread Thread Starter Forum Replies Last Post
Good deal alert 5906 TNZ71 Smith & Wesson Semi-Auto Pistols 7 03-11-2017 01:50 AM
Great deal on a 5906 Ruger Nut Smith & Wesson Semi-Auto Pistols 5 12-09-2012 09:37 PM
Deal or no deal - model 36 is good shape mikebsull415 S&W Revolvers: 1961 to 1980 5 12-24-2011 08:25 AM
Good deal or not? 5906 TSW. Now w/PICs cobra357 Smith & Wesson Semi-Auto Pistols 13 12-13-2011 08:40 AM
S&W 5906 ANIB-Good deal?? steamloco76 Smith & Wesson Semi-Auto Pistols 10 12-27-2010 06:18 PM

Powered by vBadvanced CMPS v3.2.3
smith-wessonforum.com tested by Norton Internet Security smith-wessonforum.com tested by McAfee Internet Security

All times are GMT -4. The time now is 09:40 PM.


Smith-WessonForum.com is not affiliated with Smith & Wesson Holding Corporation (NASDAQ Global Select: SWHC)