Bashing Taurus

As I've posted before, I've had two Taurus handguns in the past 20 years. A PT-92 was the first hand gun I ever purchased for myself. Good price and shot pretty well. Someone mentioned folks keeping them (PT-92's) as beater/loaner 9mm's. I traded mine. Wish I still had it. The second was a M85 ultra-lite I bought to replace a model 60-9 I sold to my brother (I bought it back a few years ago). I put a nice Hogue stock on it and it carried and shot well. Not as smooth as my J's, but still pretty good. Traded it for my beater model 19. It was good enough that it would still be nice to have. It's not a Taurus, but I bought a Rossi .22lr revolver (model 518?) last year. It's a very good little stainless "kit" gun. Great single action trigger, good double action trigger.

Knock Taurus if you like, but I have found them to be good for the $$$.
 
I've had good results from a couple of Taurus revolovers over the years.

What I will never do again is bother with a Taurus auto anything....yes, based on first hand experience.

Maybe a fluke....but after 18 months of trying to make it work right, I gave it back to the person that gave it to
me in the first place.
 
Fishslayer said:
Didn't we have this conversation? IIRC you were advised to buy him a S&W?;)

I could be wrong, of course. I have advanced CRAFT. :(
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Yes, we have had this conversation! Working on solutions, but not anything gelling yet. he is talking more and more about how he'd rather something else. I'm letting him take his time to look and try things and let it go on his own timetable. In the meantime--if his jams, I know mine won't!
 
+1 I have a Kel Tec P3At that will shoot anything I can stuff in the clip. Over 1000 rounds through it with one FTE and that was my fault - I limp wristed it.

G.T. Smith said:
That is kinda like Raven MP25's .25 auto. Everyone that I have ever talked to about the say they are junk. I have owned a couple of the over the past 10 years or so and had 0 problems with either one of them. I believe it's like my dad said when i was a little boy, and asked him what was wrong with Studebakers and Hudsons, because I had heard folks call them junk. He told me that they are as good as any other car but they required a little more maintenance than some of the more expensive models. He also said that technology was far to advanced to turn out a car that couldn't measure up with proper care.
Kinda like guns I say. Your gonna get a lemon now and then no matter what it is your buying, gun, car, computer or TV.
Just my uneducated and uniformed opinion.
Peace,
gordon
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captorquewrench said:
There really is a lot of Bigfoot talk over on that board! A lot more than there is about El Chupacabra.
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I believe that is my cousin that's eat'n those goats...

He was born hungry...kinda like Amos Moses...you know the feller that could eat up his weight in groceries??? ;) That's him.

Kinda to side track the discussion...but do old Rossi's count as Taurus guns? I'm pretty darn proud of my one Rossi model 88 snubby and three model 62 pump .22 rifles.
 
I have owned several Taurus pistols and one revolver. I now own none. I won't buy their products again. Even though they offer a lifetime warranty, their customer service is horrible...and that is one of my personal criteria for buying a handgun: I want to know that the company that makes it will stand behind it effectively...a "lifetime" warranty is meaningless if the company can't (or won't) fix their products in a reasonable time frame.

That is why I buy S&W, Ruger, and Springfield products...not only are they good guns, but these companies have excellent customer service that is regarded as overwhelmingly positive with very few negative experiences...every company can have the occasional "oops" but with Taurus, it is generally bad.
 
In honor of all those that support the Taurus line, today I took 170 rounds of 45Acp to the range. For pistols I took a brand new R1 Remington, and my old beat-up Taurus PT 1911. I put the Remington back in my Midway range bag and pulled out the Taurus, loaded all 16 mags I have and went through all 170 rounds. I don't know how many my old Taurus has "down the pipe" but it is alot. I say somewhere between 6000 and 7500. But as soon as it breaks, I'm going to send it back to Taurus to see if I can get a little of that lifetime warranty stuff. They won't need to rush it back though. I still have that Colt or that Dan Wesson, or that Remington, or that Kimber I can use.
 
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My name is Gary and I own a Taurus. I also own two Hi Points, two Kel Techs, a Jennings, a Heritage Roughrider, several commie firearms, a couple of S&W's and yes even a Glock. :eek: Furthermore, I have sold and traded more guns than my old brain can remember.

There now, I feel so much better.

BTW, I like guns so much that I don't mind toying around with other brands. In fact, I look forward to it.

My philosophy is life is too short to spend it on one or two manufactures.
 
Never had the desire but I'm always appreciative of all levels (price points) of guns....EVERYONE should be able to buy a gun. From Hi-Point to a Korth....there are guns for everyone who chooses to own one...that's darn important.

Bob
 
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