Trade a S&W for a Taurus???

[Bald1]

Was it Yamaha? For some reason I thought the engines were built by Mercury Marine. I must be getting old and forgetful.

EDIT:

A little googling revealed that Mercury Marine produced engines for the Gen 4 Corvette ZR1. That must be what I was thinking of.

Mercury marine were basically GM motors. The 4.3 6 cyl that was absolutely bullet proof in GM trucks was basically the 160 hp Mercruiser engine. Some change’s obviously for marine application but not much. I could run around on Lake Erie and upper Niagara River all day at 3500-4000 RPM. So 1500-2000 was no problem going down Highway in a 1500.

 

[johngalt]

The engine was designed and built by Yamaha.

John

It also had a very optimistic acronym.

 

[Stirling]

So because you and a friend had a Taurus pistol decades ago that didn't work and that's no longer made, you believe everything Taurus makes now and will ever make years from now into the future is junk?

I have to question the critical thinking skills and intelligence of some of the members here based on their comments and the illogical conclusions they're coming to. Respectfully, many do not sound to smart based on their logic alone.

No. I don't have money or time to waste. Here we can't walk into a gun shop and just buy a gun. I will go with brands/guns that in my experience I know work.

 

[Well Armed]

No. I don't have money or time to waste. Here we can't walk into a gun shop and just buy a gun. I will go with brands/guns that in my experience I know work.

Then no S&W revolvers or handguns should be on that list. They currently have a worse reputation and more complaints than Taurus. Hopefully you only own and buy Glocks or HKs.

 

[rwsmith]

Taurus semis are pretty good.....

...for their price point. Their revolvers CAN be pretty good but it's an indefinite. I'd go with the definite, which is more important to me than new and shiny. As a matter of fact, since I'm impecunious I buy S&Ws that are not 'new and shiny' so that I can afford more of them.

 

[AlHunt]

...since I'm impecunious ...

Really? I hope you had to look that one up, because I did.

 

[ZGrand]

I have two Taurus handguns, but only one is a revolver (a Judge). No complaints about either one.

Would I trade a nice Smith for a Taurus? No.

 

[walnutred]

Without knowing the version of the M10 and how much they were offering in trade there is no way to judge if this was a good deal or not. If I had a S&W M10 with the lock and the shop was offering anything close to an even trade for a Taurus 605 or 608 I'd probably trade.

 

[johngalt]

Without knowing the version of the M10 and how much they were offering in trade there is no way to judge if this was a good deal or not. If I had a S&W M10 with the lock and the shop was offering anything close to an even trade for a Taurus 605 or 608 I'd probably trade.

I don't know what year it was made, but it is old enough to be a former police duty gun. From that description, I would guess it is from the good old days.

 

[minconrevo]

I remember, not fondly, of an IDPA revolver shooter who bought a Taurus 66 clone. The forcing cone was reamed excessively and, by the time I saw it, was cracked in 2 places. Don't know if it came that way new or if a previous owner had tried to fix a timing problem by reaming the forcing cone.

 

[RobertJ.]

Long ago, I traded a Taurus .357 for an Epiphone Les Paul. We were both happy with the deal. But he was in trouble with his GF for bringing home a gun, and I was in trouble with my wife for bringing home another noisy musical instrument!

Aren't most Taurus owners part of the "just as good as" crowd?

 

[Curt Fesler]

I'm an old S&W revolver guy but changed to autos with the tide. But the compact S&W auto I bought a few years ago became too hard to rack and I went back to a Taurus Revolver, 3" barrel in 38 special. I put a crimson trace sight on it and a triger kit. I love it. There is nothing I dislike about it. But it did bring back memories of the old S&W 2" Chiefs Special I let go years ago and wish I had back.