Model 39

[Extoolman]

Good morning, I have a model 39 serial number 34xxx, I have been searching around to find out what year this is.. lovely pistol and in great shape
Thank you for your time

 

[stansdds]

Very nice, but this thread needs to be moved to "Smith & Wesson Semi-Auto Pistols" sub-forum.

 

[Extoolman]

my apologies, do I have to delete and start over?

 

[kwill1911]

They didn't ship in strict SN order but yours probably shipped in 1962 or 1963.

 

[cougar015]

Good morning, I have a model 39 serial number 34xxx, I have been searching around to find out what year this is.. lovely pistol and in great shape
Thank you for your time
Need the entire s/n to give you a good date. 34XXX only makes for a good guess.

 

[Extoolman]

34377 Thank you

 

[cougar015]

34377 Thank you

It was 1 of 25 M39's Shipped October 1960. In comparison, and too support what Kwill mentioned, a lower s/n 32593 didn't ship until August 1961. Congrats on a great looking gun.

 

[Extoolman]

They didn't ship in strict SN order but yours probably shipped in 1962 or 1963.

Thank you

 

[Extoolman]

Thank you for your help much appreciated

 

[Dinodino]

Good morning, I have a model 39 serial number 34xxx, I have been searching around to find out what year this is.. lovely pistol and in great shape
Thank you for your time
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Hello, S&W Customer Service line (800) 331-0852 an actual person will tell you over the phone by your serial number for just about any S&W. Better than guessing.

 

[cougar015]

Hello, S&W Customer Service line (800) 331-0852 an actual person will tell you over the phone by your serial number for just about any S&W. Better than guessing.

Did you read post #7 above?

 

[Sevens]

Hello, S&W Customer Service line (800) 331-0852 an actual person will tell you over the phone by your serial number for just about any S&W. Better than guessing.

For most revolvers made after 1980 and most semiautomatic pistols made after 1984, the low wage phone answering drone at S&W probably has a good result from the company computer.

For 39’s, 59’s, 52’s and 41’s, that same goof on the phone has less of a clue than probably 40 different active posters on the S&W Forum.

That’s fact. Here is another…

Outside of a $100 Historical Foundation letter request, there exists no source on this Earth that will courteously help you on a 39 serial number better than cougar015.

Try the S&W phone game challenge… call them three times over five days and report back with all the different guesses they have for a pistol shipped before they were born. Or for real fun, ask them about some esoteric model and listen for crickets when they have no idea what you’re asking about.

I once struck up a conversation with a traveling S&W field rep about the 1006 and the five other models in that series and he had no idea they’d ever existed. All news to him and he was wearing the company logo on his shirt and on the clock for the brand.

What a sweet gig, he was being paid to be at a gun store in nowhere, Ohio to stand by a table of Tupperware and learn about his company’s legacy products from an enthusiast. (Me.)