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Post by webber on Sept 13, 2022 20:01:58 GMT -5
Are Taurus Revolvers any good. Have been looking at and wanting a 2 inch 38 Special to drop in my pocket around the house.
I know Taurus has had their share of problems. Just wondering about recent made revolvers.
Thanks
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Post by JM on Sept 13, 2022 23:33:11 GMT -5
I think so, but I only know one.
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Post by magpouch on Sept 14, 2022 17:14:16 GMT -5
I have a stainless 856 and really like it. Its very accurate (to me Mr. Bradshaw, only to me) and after dealing with one small issue has been reliable.
Quick edit to add that I am trying to get a .327 mag model that is a clone of the 856 in size and the same in .22 mag (M942). Prices on these seem high currently and run about $100 dollars more than the 856 in .38 special, so I am looking on Gunbroker almost daily. Thanks for that AxeHandle...
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Post by Encore64 on Sept 14, 2022 17:28:59 GMT -5
It's a difficult question to answer. They, like almost all brands, vary from gun to gum.
The finest built DA Revolver I own is a Taurus Raging Bull 41 Magnum. But, I've seen examples that were deplorable.
Ditto on Colt, Ruger, S&W, etc...
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Post by bradshaw on Sept 14, 2022 18:30:07 GMT -5
I have a stainless 856 and really like it. Its very accurate (to me Mr. Bradshaw, only to me) and after dealing with one small issue has been reliable.
Quick edit to add that I am trying to get a .327 mag model that is a clone of the 856 in size and the same in .22 mag (M942). Prices on these seem high currently and run about $100 dollars more than the 856 in .38 special, so I am looking on Gunbroker almost daily. Thanks for that AxeHandle...
***** Having never felt a magnetic attraction to Taurus double actions denied me the experience to critique their accuracy. I didn't like the single & double action trigger, and have declined to work on them. Reckon, during the silhouette days, we drove revolver accuracy as hard as it’s been driven. Biggest battle early on was the seesaw duel between Ruger and Smith & Wesson, primarily in .44 Mag. Accuracy kept the Colt Python on the firing line, but price and limitations of the .357 Mag kept it in low circulation. Some top shooters tried the Manurhin MR 73 Silhouette----priced richer than the Python. Near as I can tell, only French steel shooters stuck with it. Other brands factored, especially Sig Himmelmann with his flavor-of-the-month companies, and especially Dan Wesson Arms. Then came Freedom Arms, maker of Dick Casull’s revolver. The FA Model 83 didn’t so much blow the doors off other top revolvers; to put it Country Simple, the specification package and quality control on Dick Casull’s revolver were, are are, so rigid you are virtually certain on first purchase to have a podium-accurate revolver. You can’t fight your gun, the gun has to fight for you. To my knowledge Taurus didn’t make a sixgun to draw in the steel shooter. Add to it a rumor of take-forever service... or, the gun had to be sent out of the country. Competition shooters don’t dig that. David Bradshaw |
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Post by jeffh on Sept 14, 2022 21:45:42 GMT -5
Are Taurus Revolvers any good. Have been looking at and wanting a 2 inch 38 Special to drop in my pocket around the house. I know Taurus has had their share of problems. Just wondering about recent made revolvers. Thanks I like the Taurus 605 I bought this summer. They've made some headway in terms of omitting superfluous features which don't add functional value to the gun, they look pretty good and this one hasn't yet proved to be horribly inaccurate at 25 yards yet - because I've not shot it much at 25 yards. I like the gun a lot, but am not enamored with the SA or DA trigger pulls. It's a "drop in your pocket for around the house gun." I had a recent production 85 lightweight (2" 38 Special) and was not at all impressed. The triggers were abominable. The 605 isn't a lot better in that respect, but has a lot of other things I like about it.
On the other hand, I've shot Charter Arms revolvers since the early eighties - mid-sixties models through the early eighties models in particular, but I do have one of fairly recent production too. I personally think that they are far and away better for triggers, and they really are my preferred "cheap" revolver. The ones I've had have been capable of 2.5" groups at 25 yards, which is acceptable for how I use them.
If I were to be looking for a 2" 38 right now, I'd be looking at an older, Stratford or Bridgeport-production Undercover. I've seen them for under $300 used here and there, but they are very serviceable and functional. My wife, who always shot better than I, shot 2.5" groups at 25 yards with her 2" Undercover. It was $245, new in 84.
Most of the parts in a Charter will interchange from 1964 to NOW. Charter is great to deal with. I ordered some rear sight screws for my most recent Charter Mag Pug - left a message at their plant while they were on shut-down and got a call from a very nice lady after they came back. I explained what I needed and she asked for my address and name. I waited and waited for her to ask me for my CC info and she didn't ask, so I brought it up. "Oh, we're not going to worry about that" was her reply. Couple days later, they showed up in a hand-addressed envelope.
I'm not knocking Taurus. They have some neat stuff. At the same time, I'm not going to lie to anyone - Charter still has what you're looking for covered like no one else. I honestly would pick the vintage Charter over the more popular (and more costly) brands based on how well I think they do what they do. I LOVE the Ruger SP101, but if I had one in 2" and also had an Undercover in 2", the Undercover would be the one I carried - at least the one I carried most.
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Post by jeffh on Sept 14, 2022 21:50:38 GMT -5
I have a stainless 856 and really like it. Its very accurate (to me Mr. Bradshaw, only to me) and after dealing with one small issue has been reliable.
Quick edit to add that I am trying to get a .327 mag model that is a clone of the 856 in size and the same in .22 mag (M942). Prices on these seem high currently and run about $100 dollars more than the 856 in .38 special, so I am looking on Gunbroker almost daily. Thanks for that AxeHandle...
That 856 is NICE and is very tempting.
I think that just recently, Taurus is kicking some butt on offering basic, functional guns without adding cost via useless features. This is the one which caught my eye and made me start looking at Taurus again, but I ended up with the 3" 605 in 357. I do like the gun a LOT, but the DA and SA trigger takes some getting used to when you've been shooting something which has much lighter DA and SA pulls.
If it weren't for switching back and forth, I believe I could live with the triggers, but it takes some getting used to. As mentioned in another thread, I will not mess with the Taurus hammer/trigger, because I suspect they are surface-hardened parts and would not appreciate stoning.
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Post by reflex264 on Sept 16, 2022 11:11:10 GMT -5
Taurus has very recently made huge headway in resolving their customer service issues. They are also committed as we were told, to fixing the atrocious triggers. It is hard to believe they strayed so far from the Bangor-Punta days. They are trying to right the wrongs. It seems like
the right people at Taurus are finally listening. We will soon see.
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Post by jeffh on Sept 16, 2022 13:43:06 GMT -5
Taurus has very recently made huge headway in resolving their customer service issues. They are also committed as we were told, to fixing the atrocious triggers. It is hard to believe they strayed so far from the Bangor-Punta days. They are trying to right the wrongs. It seems like the right people at Taurus are finally listening. We will soon see. That is encouraging to hear.
I'd love to see them put out the quality I saw in their late eighties/early nineties revolvers. The triggers weren't super-amazing, but they were definitely workable. The trigger pulls weren't so bad as to negate the sum of all the other attributes of their revolvers. The M85 Ultra-Lite I moved a year ago could not overcome the terrible trigger pulls. My current 605 is a little gem when considering all the features, but the trigger pulls come very close to negating all the good things about it. Why make such a great little revolver and neglect one feature which is so bad that it nullifies all the good parts?
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Post by Longhunter1750 on Sept 17, 2022 11:34:38 GMT -5
I have bought three of my grand daughters 856's for carry pieces. We all go out plinking every other week or so, we use other guns also but they bring along their little Taurus's, have yet to have a problem with any of them. Probably have a thousand rounds through each of them.
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Post by jeffh on Sept 17, 2022 11:40:11 GMT -5
I have bought three of my grand daughters 856's for carry pieces. We all go out plinking every other week or so, we use other guns also but they bring along their little Taurus's, have yet to have a problem with any of them. Probably have a thousand rounds through each of them. It looks like a great, basic 38 special, which seems to be hard to get any more. I think BASIC anything is getting hard to get any more.
I like tack Taurus has taken recently and I hope it catches on with other makers - maybe spawn a "retro-revolution," where what's cool these days becomes the "anti-cool."
Remember "base model" cars and trucks? A basic vehicle, unburdened with all the bells-n-whistles and a price to reflect the same?
EDIT: OK, anyway, a base model, yet with some finesse. The RIA revolvers, I think are something else. I am curious about them, but I do like the more svelte, lighter-weight, yet robust-enough Taurus bridges a BIG gap.
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Post by leadfoot on Jan 18, 2023 23:20:32 GMT -5
Mod 85 bought in the 80`s, nice little piece.
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Post by taffin on Jan 19, 2023 1:44:07 GMT -5
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Post by AxeHandle on Jan 19, 2023 7:12:20 GMT -5
I've recently enjoyed playing with 327, 9mm, and 38 Taurus revolvers. They have turned out to be nice functional little revolvers. The last of the Taurus acquisitions, a 22LR, did not turn out so well. It would not fire. Sent it back to Taurus. Received a telephone call from Taurus. They said it was out of spec and would be destroyed and replaced. That was three months ago in October of 2022. Haven't heard another word from them. Sent emails and have received NO response of any sort.
In the same time frame a buddy picked up a 44 Mag Taurus that would not fire. Appeared that it had no firing pin. Shipped it back to Taurus. It was repaired and back in two weeks.
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Post by reflex264 on Jan 19, 2023 8:41:48 GMT -5
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