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Old 12-19-2020, 01:31 PM
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Here's one that confuses me. I have had an old 39-2 for a few months. The slide is in rough shape. I found a newer one with a bushing, barrel and rod all in a set at a gun show. Here's a pic. The slide on the bottom, which is mine, has two clear groves on the bottom side to line up with the two little levers on my lower receiver. The one I bought has an added bump in one of the grooves. When I put the new slide in my receiver the added bump pushes down on one of the little levers on my receiver and disconnects the trigger. What kind of slide do I have? The appearance of the slides are identical except that mine has scrapes on it. This has me perplexed.
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Hello Jeeper, take a pic of the front and rt. side.
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It looks like the ejector-depressor plunger was removed from the original slide disabling the magazine disconnect feature.

Part number 6013 in the early manual - http://www.marxcollector.com/S_W/S&W_39.pdf

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I just pulled the slide off my 39-2 and 439. As the previous poster mentioned the part for the mag disconnect feature in the slide has been removed.

The slide is definitely not off a second Generation 439. Your two slides are just like my 39-2 slide.
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AH sir, you have a keen eye.
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You all have solved my mystery. My current slide allows me to fire the gun without the magazine being in it. I thought that was normal. When I put the new slide on the mag has to be in to fire. Thank you all for your input.
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You all have solved my mystery. My current slide allows me to fire the gun without the magazine being in it. I thought that was normal. When I put the new slide on the mag has to be in to fire. Thank you all for your input.
Welcome to the S&W Forums and I am glad that your question was adequately answered.
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Hello Jeeperjo, you came to the right place with your question.
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Welcome to the Forum! I hope you stick around to both learn and share. We would sure love to see pics with each slide installed.

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This would be the logical assumption. The 52's have a magazine disconnect built into them also. Considering the basis of the 52 frame is the 39 frame it logical they would be almost exact mirrors of each other.
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When I was on the PD in Washington state where we carried 59s, most officers took out their magazine disconnects, in case they had to fire during a magazine change.
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Here is my original gun with a slide that has seen a lot of action. It even has an etching of a police department on it. Still, it shoots good.
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Here is my same gun with a much better looking slide. I think that this slide has done a lot of sitting. It feels much tighter than the other one I think that it hasnt been "broken in" at all. The insides just dont feel like there has been a whole lot of sliding at all.
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My 1911 can fire without a magazine in it.
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Here is my original gun with a slide that has seen a lot of action. It even has an etching of a police department on it. Still, it shoots good.
"CAI Georgia VT" is a firearms importer so looks like your 39-2 has travelled somewhere. Glad it made its way back home! That new slide looks pretty sweet. Thanks for posting!

Hey, just noticed the unique-shaped slide lock notch in your nicer slide, which I believe was found in the earlier guns? I'm no expert but I thought I read that here recently in a different post. So Im guessing that nice slide is actually older than your frame.

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I noticed the different slide stop notch also. I guess it was redesigned.
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There were a lot of assorted 9mm brought in from Israel by Century. They used them for police issue. I have seen Browning, SIG, FEG, and Smith and Wesson revolvers and auto that came back from them. Also, lots of M1 Carbines which were used by Mash Az volunteer police (Neighborhood watch with guns).

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Does that mean that this pistol was made overseas? I thought all Smith's in this time period were made stateside?
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Does that mean that this pistol was made overseas? I thought all Smith's in this time period were made stateside?
No, the weapons are made in the original countries. Israel bought them and imported them.
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Does that mean that this pistol was made overseas? I thought all Smith's in this time period were made stateside?
No not made overseas, made here then exported and at some point was imported from wherever it had been.
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My 1911 can fire without a magazine in it.
Some semi-auto pistols have a magazine disconnect safety system. Some say it's a good thing to have, some say it's a bad thing to have. It sure messes up the trigger action on Browning Hi-Power's and their clones, not sure how much of an effect it has on the S&W pistols.
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Some semi-auto pistols have a magazine disconnect safety system. Some say it's a good thing to have, some say it's a bad thing to have. It sure messes up the trigger action on Browning Hi-Power's and their clones, not sure how much of an effect it has on the S&W pistols.
A lot of folks do not like the disconnects, especially law enforcement. So they remove them. It also tends to make the trigger pull better.
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Does the safety lever on the rougher slide appear thicker to anyone else? It seems to have more grooves/striations. If so the others thinner profile would ride a bit better for concealed carry, I'm a-thinkin'.
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