Think this one can be saved? ;)

Looks like a Sig Sauer to my eye?

I think it could be saved. At least the frame. The rest of the parts, who knows. Will need a new barrel and springs at the least. Put it in an electrolysis machine, then take it apart, clean it up, put in new springs and a barrel, oil it well, tie a string around the trigger and take cover behind a wall.

Then give the string a tug

Alternatively you can just play dumb and send it to the manufacturer.

If you look at the gun image in the video, it's clearly a Smith and Wesson.

it is a smith 5906 or the blued equivalent or the 40 equivalent etc but definitely a third gen Smith & wesson....

...the infamous boating accident.

Wish I knew my Smiths better, I just saw so many design cues it shared with the P229 which the BATFE carried for a long time, but maybe not as far back as '92.

I just saw so many design cues it shared with the P229

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Well - no take-down lever, 1911-style slide stop, no decocker, and a manual safety on the slide all defy the SIG P-series resemblance.

S&W 5906:


SIg P229:

Looks like a 5906

Looks to me like a 5905. If it was a 5906 you would probably see some silver somewhere. There were only 5000 5905's made in 1990 I think. That was fairly new when they lost it.

5905

If it's anything like my second-gen 469, give it a good cleaning and it might still fire.

Breakthrough & Froglube....

The ATF agent should roll out some FrogLube and maybe some Breakthrough solvent & see how well it really cleans/lubes.
It looks to me like a S&W 3904 9mm or maybe a 5904.
Id get new Wolff springs & new magazines too. Maybe Wayne Novak or Trijicon night sights.

Rusty
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Looks to me like a 5905. If it was a 5906 you would probably see some silver somewhere. There were only 5000 5905's made in 1990 I think. That was fairly new when they lost it.

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I don't think 5905 was made with the swoopy recurved trigger guards of the early 5903/4/6. Could be wrong.

I could DEFINITELY get that thing going again

The trigger guard closely resembles my 469. Don't know what other models also had that style guard, but I'd put money on this being a 2nd or 3rd gen Smith.

No, you are right.

The goofy rear sight, and the finger-hook trigger guard makes it a 5903/5904.
Or maybe a 459.

The 5906 was a stainless gun, and I don't think that one was stainless!

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The 5906 was a stainless gun, and I don't think that one was stainless!

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Eh, stainless is corrosion resistant, not corrosion proof. When it does corrode, it goes black.

The 5903 & 4 had alloy frames, which should have looked different than the steel slide.

It's definitely a 3rd gen with that grip.

My money is on 5906. They were the most prolific, especially among LE.

Boy, I'm gonna bookmark this thread. If'n any ATF agent should ever question my sad tale of a boating accident, I'm gonna spring this on him.