PhilOhio
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Outstanding, blujax01, except it looks like they gave you a 10-shot mag from the ban era. Still, the price was $20 less than what I paid, and without the $18 shipping. You got a give away. The savings makes it cost effective to buy a nice 15-shot mag.
While waiting for my second 5906, inbound from CDNN, I'm building a second set of custom walnut grips for it which are less labor intensive. They require no handmade steel back strap, no drilling of that impossible stainless steel frame, and mount much like the Hogue and original S&W grips, but stronger and with a conventional through-the-grips escutcheon screw at the rear. I'll post pics when finished...if it works.
I have to say that S&W, in designing this method of mounting grips on the 3rd generation semiauto frames, really made life difficult for us...only for the sake of cutting a few cents off manufacturing costs.
Somewhere on a S&W tooling shelf sit the injection molds for making a beautiful set of checkered Model 39-style synthetic grips, with medallion, for the 5906 and its family of frames. They used coloration which looks just like wood. I stumbled across pictures of these during an Internet search. They are in a thread somewhere on this site. I sure wish S&W would do a run of these and sell them as an accessory.
When the guns were made new, most were sold to law enforcement. Now, thousands have been released as surplus and sold to us. There should be quite a market for these very attractive, and better feeling/looking, grips, if sold at a reasonable price. They make the 5906 look and feel the way it should have originally, even if the wood is not real.
While waiting for my second 5906, inbound from CDNN, I'm building a second set of custom walnut grips for it which are less labor intensive. They require no handmade steel back strap, no drilling of that impossible stainless steel frame, and mount much like the Hogue and original S&W grips, but stronger and with a conventional through-the-grips escutcheon screw at the rear. I'll post pics when finished...if it works.
I have to say that S&W, in designing this method of mounting grips on the 3rd generation semiauto frames, really made life difficult for us...only for the sake of cutting a few cents off manufacturing costs.
Somewhere on a S&W tooling shelf sit the injection molds for making a beautiful set of checkered Model 39-style synthetic grips, with medallion, for the 5906 and its family of frames. They used coloration which looks just like wood. I stumbled across pictures of these during an Internet search. They are in a thread somewhere on this site. I sure wish S&W would do a run of these and sell them as an accessory.
When the guns were made new, most were sold to law enforcement. Now, thousands have been released as surplus and sold to us. There should be quite a market for these very attractive, and better feeling/looking, grips, if sold at a reasonable price. They make the 5906 look and feel the way it should have originally, even if the wood is not real.
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