This should make you feel nostalgic Blues. 3 generations of double stack S&W 9mms. 59, 659, and 5906.
Oh heck yeah! Since I cut my eye teeth on the DA/SA, Decocker style S&W's, I really never warmed up to the 1911 cocked 'n locked or the Glock polymer/striker-fired styles of weapons. I carried an M&P .40 full sized when I worked for the armored transport company, and did all of my training sessions (2 x year x 5 years) with it. I was proficient with it, and I liked the changeable back-strap and the rail (even though the company wouldn't buy anything for us to put on it), but the feel of that striker trigger system just sucked out loud compared to what I am most used to, and most comfortable with.
I looked for a pic or two of what mine looked like, and realized while searching that mine was somewhat rare. At least there are very few pictures of 59's that looked like mine among thousands of pictures in Google Images of 59's. But I did find a couple.
Mine was an alloy version, which, until I started looking a little bit ago, I thought when I had it, that they all were. It was "blue," but the bluing had a very noticeable green tinge to it. The steel slide was dark black, but the alloy frame looked anodized in green in bright light. It was just barely noticeable in low light though. In low light, it looked pretty much like this:
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In medium to high light, it just looked green though:
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Neither of those are my weapon or my pics. I just found 'em in the search. I had a bunch of pics at one time, but lost them, along with nearly everything else, including a pretty impressive long-gun collection, in a house fire in '85.
Anyway, I've stuck with the same DA/SA/Decocker basic design through the years. I've had a handful of 92F's, had a H&K USP for awhile, a couple of Sig P-models, a
bunch of Smiths (lost count long ago), and the two RAMIs I have now are pretty close to the same mechanics minus the decocker, which is available as a factory conversion, but which I doubt I'll ever go to the expense of doing on either/both of them. The overwhelming majority of those weapons were in 9mm, just to keep things more or less OT.
The only Smith I have now is my .45 (sorry for the brief thread drift), which is such a great performer, but which is just too bulky to carry comfortably, so she's my main home defense handgun, and the first thing I'd grab if I had to bug-out or otherwise have to go into battle mode. She's a 4563 TSW that I've had since the late 90's sometime:
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Most of the time she's sportin' a Streamlight TLR-2, which would go in the bug-out bag on the way out, and the gun would go in a drop-leg platform on my belt. Shown here with a Raven Concealment Systems modular tuckable IWB/Belt-Slide/Paddle rig however:
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'K, I'm all nostagialed-out! Hope I didn't overload anyone's phone data limits! Talkin' guns without pics is so 2012 though! LOL Have a good'un.
Blues
