Is Smith & Wesson Bringing Back the Stainless Wondernine?

[Talyn]

Is Smith & Wesson teasing that perhaps its best “Wonderine” pistol may be ready for a comeback?

Is Smith & Wesson Bringing Back the Stainless Wondernine?

Was it a social media girl’s fever dream, or is Smith & Wesson teasing that perhaps its best “Wonderine” pistol may be ready for a comeback? The company, on Thursday, dropped …

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[Wirenut]

Not in my lifetime!!

 

[Lo-Profile]

Yeah, don't see that happening

 

[KillerFord1977]

Not in my lifetime!!

Yeah, don't see that happening

That S&W would bring it back or that you would buy it ??

 

[UC_Guy 1971]

If they offered the 3913TSW I'd give it a try. Optics ready too? Oooooohh... well I better not be left alone tonight.

 

[HansGruber]

Ok.

If they do a Performance Center model, optics ready, railed…maybe a threaded barrel option…something that could run with, say, an Sig P22x Legion…I’ll be all over it.

 

[The Night Rider]

I have a very hard time believing that anybody would be willing to pay what Smith & Wesson would have to charge for a third gen.

 

[mikep]

I have a very hard time believing that anybody would be willing to pay what Smith & Wesson would have to charge for a third gen.

The originals go for 700-800 on gunbroker. I can’t imagine what a new one would go for.

 

[Annihilator]

4506, definitely!!!!! 5906 oh yea!!

 

[Recusant]

Now that one I'd seriously think about buying!

 

[mikep]

Great. now i’m on gunbroker looking at 5906’s.

 

[Warrior9(Ret)]

4506, definitely!!!!! 5906 oh yea!!

Heck Yeah

 

[Anchorite]

4506, definitely!!!!! 5906 oh yea!!

Love my 4506 and 5946.

 

[Warrior9(Ret)]

I hope they don’t add that Internal Lock BS

 

[Jester560]

that is a big ole nope. Don't own any S&W products. Never have, never will.

 

[Wirenut]

That S&W would bring it back or that you would buy it ??

I would buy it, but I don't see it back in production.
S&W is too busy with their plastics making simple changes on the same old line and trying to bring back the classic revolver line.

 

[Winchester67]

Lot more margin in plastic frames that don't require machining. I don't see them going back.

 

[Mr.W.]

My 5906 and I shall never part! I guess the only drawback I ever had was they helped to make one heavy duty belt!

 

[The Night Rider]

that is a big ole nope. Don't own any S&W products. Never have, never will.

Okay, there has to be a story behind that. Dish Bro.

I hope they don’t add that Internal Lock BS

I can't imagine why they would. Especially given Smith and Wesson is leaving Massachusetts.

The originals go for 700-800 on gunbroker. I can’t imagine what a new one would go for.

I have some experience in the manufacturing field, but it's been decades.

I am repeating something that I have heard from people who are way smarter than me.

Third generation Smith & Wessons were labor intensive and they required skilled labor to make, more so than the M&P series.

I'm almost positive that Smith & Wesson would have to retool the line and start over if they were going to go back to making 3rd generation guns.

I have heard people much smarter than myself speculate that a 5906 made today would cost right around $1,500.

I don't know what their budget models (Model 915 for example) would cost but it would cost more than an M&P I'll bet you that.

So anyway, that's the most common reason I hear for them not being reintroduced.

 

[The Night Rider]

I don't know why, but the Smith & Wesson model 4006 has always appealed to me. I have always wanted one since I first knew they existed. Every time I had money to buy one, I couldn't find one every time I found one, I didn't have money to buy it.

So, 2013, I joined my church's security team. The very first time I got to go to a training event with them, the guy who was running the security team was in the lane right next to me, and he had a Smith & Wesson 4006.

I told him how much I had always wanted to buy one and how I could never find one.

The next day in church, he told me that he was going to sell his 4006, and he wanted to ask me if I wanted to buy it before he tried selling it to anybody else. He also wanted to, in his words, make sure "I got a good deal on it," so he offered it to me for two hundred dollars. Of course, I jumped on it.