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SEC FORM 4 SEC Form 4

FORM 4

UNITED STATES SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549

STATEMENT OF CHANGES IN BENEFICIAL OWNERSHIP

Filed pursuant to Section 16(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934
or Section 30(h) of the Investment Company Act of 1940

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Check this box if no longer subject to Section 16. Form 4 or Form 5 obligations may continue. See Instruction 1(b).

1. Name and Address of Reporting Person^*

MELBY COLTON

(Last)

(First)

(Middle)

2100 ROOSEVELT AVENUE

(Street)

SPRINGFIELD

01102-2208

(City)

(State)

(Zip)

2. Issuer Name and Ticker or Trading Symbol
SMITH & WESSON HOLDING CORP [ SWB ]

5. Relationship of Reporting Person(s) to Issuer
(Check all applicable)

X	Director	10% Owner
	Officer (give title below)	Other (specify below)

3. Date of Earliest Transaction (Month/Day/Year)
04/19/2004

4. If Amendment, Date of Original Filed (Month/Day/Year)

6. Individual or Joint/Group Filing (Check Applicable Line)

X	Form filed by One Reporting Person
	Form filed by More than One Reporting Person

Table I - Non-Derivative Securities Acquired, Disposed of, or Beneficially Owned
1. Title of Security (Instr. 3)	2. Transaction Date (Month/Day/Year)	2A. Deemed Execution Date, if any (Month/Day/Year)	3. Transaction Code (Instr. 8)		4. Securities Acquired (A) or Disposed Of (D) (Instr. 3, 4 and 5)			5. Amount of Securities Beneficially Owned Following Reported Transaction(s) (Instr. 3 and 4)	6. Ownership Form: Direct (D) or Indirect (I) (Instr. 4)	7. Nature of Indirect Beneficial Ownership (Instr. 4)
1. Title of Security (Instr. 3)	2. Transaction Date (Month/Day/Year)	2A. Deemed Execution Date, if any (Month/Day/Year)	Code	V	Amount	(A) or (D)	Price		6. Ownership Form: Direct (D) or Indirect (I) (Instr. 4)	7. Nature of Indirect Beneficial Ownership (Instr. 4)
Common Stock	04/19/2004		S⁽¹⁾		2,400	D	$1.95	7,445,752	D
Common Stock	04/20/2004		S⁽¹⁾		2,400	D	$1.9	7,443,352	D

Table II - Derivative Securities Acquired, Disposed of, or Beneficially Owned (e.g., puts, calls, warrants, options, convertible securities)
1. Title of Derivative Security (Instr. 3)	2. Conversion or Exercise Price of Derivative Security	3. Transaction Date (Month/Day/Year)	3A. Deemed Execution Date, if any (Month/Day/Year)	4. Transaction Code (Instr. 8)		5. Number of Derivative Securities Acquired (A) or Disposed of (D) (Instr. 3, 4 and 5)		6. Date Exercisable and Expiration Date (Month/Day/Year)		7. Title and Amount of Securities Underlying Derivative Security (Instr. 3 and 4)		8. Price of Derivative Security (Instr. 5)	9. Number of derivative Securities Beneficially Owned Following Reported Transaction(s) (Instr. 4)	10. Ownership Form: Direct (D) or Indirect (I) (Instr. 4)	11. Nature of Indirect Beneficial Ownership (Instr. 4)
1. Title of Derivative Security (Instr. 3)	2. Conversion or Exercise Price of Derivative Security	3. Transaction Date (Month/Day/Year)	3A. Deemed Execution Date, if any (Month/Day/Year)	Code	V	(A)	(D)	Date Exercisable	Expiration Date	Title	Amount or Number of Shares	8. Price of Derivative Security (Instr. 5)		10. Ownership Form: Direct (D) or Indirect (I) (Instr. 4)	11. Nature of Indirect Beneficial Ownership (Instr. 4)

Explanation of Responses:

1. The shares were sold pursuant to a 10b5-1 Sales Plan dated March 31, 2004, as amended to date.

Remarks:

	Carol Vesco, as attorney-in-fact	04/21/2004
	** Signature of Reporting Person	Date
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 LIMITED POWER OF ATTORNEY FOR
SECTION 16 REPORTING OBLIGATIONS



	Know all by these presents, that the undersigned's hereby makes,
constitutes and appoints Carol Vesco, Roy C. Cuny, John Kelly, and Ann
Makkiya as the undersigned's true and lawful attorney-in-fact, with full
power and authority as hereinafter described on behalf of and in the name,
place and stead of the undersigned to:

(1)	prepare, execute,
acknowledge, deliver and file Forms 3, 4, and 5 (including any amendments
thereto) with respect to the securities of Smith & Wesson Holding
Corporation, a Nevada corporation (the "Company"), with the United States
Securities and Exchange Commission, any national securities exchanges and
the Company, as considered necessary or advisable under Section 16(a) of
the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and the rules and regulations
promulgated thereunder, as amended from time to time (the "Exchange Act");


(2)	seek or obtain, as the undersigned's representative and on the
undersigned's behalf, information on transactions in the Company's
securities from any third party, including brokers, employee benefit plan
administrators and trustees, and the undersigned hereby authorizes any such
person to release any such information to the undersigned and approves and
ratifies any such release of information; and

(3)	perform any and all
other acts which in the discretion of such attorney-in-fact are necessary
or desirable for and on behalf of the undersigned in connection with the
foregoing.

The undersigned acknowledges that:

(1)	this Power of
Attorney authorizes, but does not require, such attorney-in-fact to act in
their discretion on information provided to such attorney-in-fact without
independent verification of such information;

(2)	any documents
prepared and/or executed by such attorney-in-fact on behalf of the
undersigned pursuant to this Power of Attorney will be in such form and
will contain such information and disclosure as such attorney-in-fact, in
his or her discretion, deems necessary or desirable;

(3)	neither the
Company nor such attorney-in-fact assumes (i) any liability for the
undersigned's responsibility to comply with the requirement of the Exchange
Act, (ii) any liability of the undersigned for any failure to comply with
such requirements, or (iii) any obligation or liability of the undersigned
for profit disgorgement under Section 16(b) of the Exchange Act; and


(4)	this Power of Attorney does not relieve the undersigned from
responsibility for compliance with the undersigned's obligations under the
Exchange Act, including without limitation the reporting requirements under
Section 16 of the Exchange Act.

	The undersigned hereby gives and
grants the foregoing attorney-in-fact full power and authority to do and
perform all and every act and thing whatsoever requisite, necessary or
appropriate to be done in and about the foregoing matters as fully to all
intents and purposes as the undersigned might or could do if present,
hereby ratifying all that such attorney-in-fact of, for and on behalf of
the undersigned, shall lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue of this
Limited Power of Attorney.

	This Power of Attorney shall remain in
full force and effect until revoked by the undersigned in a signed writing
delivered to such attorney-in-fact.

	IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the
undersigned has caused this Power of Attorney to be executed as of this
14th day of April, 2004.





	 /s/ Colton R.
Melby								  _________________________________
						Signature




	Colton R. Melby
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