Posted: 1/26/2011 7:07:56 AM EDT
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Who has one.
Tell me about this model. |
| I don't have one but a friend had one and if I remember correctly it is a Stainless slide with an alloy silver colored frame instead of a Stainless Steel frame like on the 9 MM 5906. The pistol has a stainless 4 inch barrel, slide mounted de-cocking safety and normally Novak style fixed sights with white dots or tritium. The pistols were also sold with a protected fully adjustable rear site with white dot or night sights. The pistols have a long double action 8 to 12lb trigger pull then a short 4 to 8lb single action trigger pull for the remaining shots. The 5903 were normally shipped with 14 or 15 round stainless magazines (S&W went from 14 to 15 rounds to match competition). The pistols are very robust and the 5903 was introduced to help reduce the weight of the 5906 by replacing the SS frame with Ally frame. The pistol is basically the same as the 5904 only in silver. I carried a 5904 on duty for many trouble free years. The pistol is a little large for concealed carry but can be accomplished. These are very good self defense pistols if you can learn to master the double/single action trigger system. The pistol is very safe as it incorporates a slide mounted safety, firing pin block safety and magazine safety. My 5904 was way more accurate than I could shoot it and I don't ever recall a malfunction unless induced during training. My 5904 would feed empty cases and dummy rounds. I always felt these were under rated pistols, I guess the DA/SA mode was the reason compared to SA. DAO or safe action pistols. |
Basically the same as the all stainless 5906 except the 5903 has an alloy frame to save weight. Same reliability and accuracy as the 5906, that is, very reliable and it hits where you aim.  I carried one every day for quite some time and trusted it 100%. Still a great gun. |