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1. I have had a model 5906 in 9mm since the mid nighties, All stainless,17 rd mags, night sights, 5″ ported bbI love the weapon and has served me well. Still have my brothers s&w mod 59 like in the box new. Good article.

2. It’s America. You’ve got a right to spend your money how you want. But, son, you’ve got it bad.

3. I have a 4006 CHP trade in. Fun gun to own and shoot, and appreciate for it’s use as a duty weapon. Would never carry the thing though. It weighs more than the Titanic’s anchor.

4. I enjoyed this article /review very much. Pat, thanks for a good article. I have never owned a model 4006. But I wanted a 5906. If I ever find a good used one, I may try it out.

5. Years ago I bought a 4006 S&W with nite sights for a bed side gun. It was a natural pointer, but too heavy for its size for a carry gun in my opinion. A couple of years later we were burglarized and it was stolen. I reported the theft, and to prove a point on checks, just over a year after it was stolen it was recovered in a large city in our state. The charge on the arrest was CCW, and the 4006 was placed in the property section where it languished for some 16 years. The Pd was going through their property section cleaning out un-needed evidence and ran the serial number. They then contacted my insurance company who contacted me, asking if I would buy the gun back. I told them that after this length of time and having no idea how it had been treated I would not. Then they made an offer that if I would drive the 240 mile round trip I could just pick it up. I agreed. When I picked the gun up, the nite sight ampules had been broken, there were 5 rounds of .40 live ammo, and 1 9mm fired casing in the box with it, and the slide had been locked back for 16 years making me suspect the recoil spring was compromised. The action was filthy from the blow by if the fired 9mm round. All criminals are not masterminds, as was not the cop who arrested the possessor of the stolen gun. All he had to do was run the numbers to find the gun was stolen. After that many years I had lost or thrown away the schematics so cleaned it by trial and error. The 4006 is easily disassembled, but without the schematics, reassembly is like working a jigsaw puzzle with no picture. There are a large number of small parts that fall out the magazine well when the pins are removed from the action. I replaced the springs, cleaned he gun and got it reassembled. I have not replaced the nite sights, and probably never will. A fellow retired cop and I have wondered how many hold ups were pulled using this gun. I have fired it for function and accuracy since it was returned to me, and it is reliable and accurate enough for self defense, but by no means worthy of a target pistol. Right now it is residing in my safe awaiting a trade on a S&W M&P 9 2.0. Anyone want to trade? Post on here and I’ll work with you.

6. I had to carry one of those for the first 8 years of my career as a LE officer. It was heavy, the magazine disconnect was a liability not an asset, and I saw a few extractors fail at the range. When the dept switched to a SIG I could have bought the 4006 for a good price but passed on it. I’ve never second guessed that decision.

7. I still miss my old 1006. 🙁

8. Its getting easy to find your ammo.

   https://www.bulkcheapammo.com/

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