I've owned a number of Taurus revolvers over the years, but only one of which I fired a lot. That one was the first one, a Taurus 82, that I shot the snot out of with wadcutter loads. That thing was great. That was in the early 80's and I bought that one, and only that one, NIB.
The rest have been purchased used. I can't say I shot any of the others a lot, but not because they didn't work well, just for one reason or another I sold or traded them off to get something else. A couple of them, especially a Model 65 and a 66, I would have put up against any Model 13/19 I've ever owned for shootability and appearance. They were both nice looking guns that shot just fine in limited shooting.
The Model 94/96, 22's I had were nice also. The finish wasn't pretty as others, but they were more of a matte finish anyway.
All I've owned have been "older" models. Older being defined as "ones with wooden grips." I think they stopped those sometime in the early/mid 90's. I don't know much about the ones with rubber grips. I've also never owned a Taurus semi-auto, so I can't say anything about them.
Just a couple of days ago, I put a Taurus 431, 44 Special on lay-a-way. Nice looking gun, a sort of K/L frame size, 3" barrel, five shot, fixed sight, 44 Special. The price was just too good to pass up, and from what I've read, they seem to be almost universally liked. I'm looking forward to getting it out of hock in a few weeks.
crappy cell phone pictures.
I'm not going to carry it. I'm not going to try to turn it into a 44 magnum. It's to be a range toy only. It checked out mechanically, same as I'd check out a S&W. If I have trouble with it, I'll either fix it, sell it, trade it, or just keep it and have a good laugh at myself.
