I think this has been discussed before......but not sure if any conclusions were reached............ so
500 total SD guns
119 in .356
any idea on the breakdown of SD- 9s and .40s ???
I'm still a little confused, the production letter says 500 units for the stocking dealer program serial numbered SDSxxxx, however the Model SD356 that was lettered is serial numbered SDDxxxx.
Is the SDD serial number somehow included with the SDS serial range:
SDD0001 thru SDD0119 + SDS0001 thru SDS0381 = 500
or is it in addition to:
SDD0001 thru SDD0119 + SDS0001 thru SDS0500 = 619
In another thread I read that the SD40 was SDS0001-0207.
Thanks
vigil..... why; if you know, does that SD9 have a .356 with it??????
Good catch, Bam! You're talking about the .356TSW marked magazine along with the SD 9 P gun. Other pictures in that group that I didn't include show that the pistol's owner had received both a .356TSW and a 9mm marked Performance Center mag when he bought the pistol at a gun show. Both mags would feed the 9mm cartridges used by the pistol, so I guess that's why they were all together like that. Or maybe the previous owner had wanted to get an extra mag, and the 356TSW was all he could find. (There would have been a very limited number of that 9mm PC-marked mags for the SD 9, compared to the SD 356, which used the same ones used by the 3566 Compacts, which the SCSW says were produced in a quantity of about 200.)
IIRC the .356 is either a 21 or 22mm case length vs the 9x19 of the SD9... can they use the same magazines???? What about overall cartridge length???
Well ya.... but the SD9 can use any magazine that will work in the 6906/04 family of guns.
IIRC the .356 is either a 21 or 22mm case length vs the 9x19 of the SD9... can they use the same magazines???? What about overall cartridge length??
Things that make you go....... hummmmmm??????
I've never seen a Stocking Dealer Compact of any of the three calibers (9, 40, 356TSW) with an SDS prefix. I suspect perhaps that was an administrative-type designation for the approximately 500 pistols that Mr. Jinks' letter references.
Here's why:
All three of the SD series Performance Center guns are more or less fully described in the SCSW, and specified with alpha prefixes as follows:
The SD 356 TSW models were SDD. And, as Hypurr's letter from Mr. Jinks confirms, they were SDD0001-0119.
The SD 40 S&W models were SDC in the series 0001 - 0207. This designation is confirmed by a photo of at least one example, wlp27's in a separate thread.
The SD 9 P models (nobody's ever explained exactly what the "P" stood for, but anyway...) were SDB. This is confirmed by the following photos I found online:
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These most likely would be SDB0001 - 0174, to round out the remaining of the 500 total SD guns produced. The 174 estimate is consistent with what previous posts have estimated over the years about the quantity of the 9mm model.
This is the best explanation I've heard for the SD series serial numbers and production quantities. I'll update the PC list when I get the chance.