JM
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Post by JM on Jun 3, 2023 20:57:37 GMT -5
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Post by bigbore5 on Jun 4, 2023 8:15:16 GMT -5
Go for it! They are nice little guns. My hands are like shoe leather according to the Missus, but those grips start really abrading if you shoot long strings. Swapped mine out for some Altamonte combats.
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jeffh
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Post by jeffh on Jun 4, 2023 10:50:41 GMT -5
I had one for a while and t hey are really well-done little guns with the right features executed very nicely, not the previous clumsy, sort of "almost made it" copy of something "better." It was very cleanly machines, the bore was very nice, the throats were sized consistently and CORRECTLY, the sights were great. Chambers line up with the bore and lockup is very good. Yes, it was a very nice revolver. I did not really need to do any work on it, just clean up the "rough" blasted finish on internal parts which were supposed to be smooth. NO LOCK! NO EXTRA HOLES IN THE BARREL! VERY nicely finished and not clunky or blocky.
It was accurate and did not lead up badly* with tumble-lubed or PC'd bullets sized to .358" or .359", carried very well and just looked and felt really nice.
*My one puzzlement was the cavernous forcing cone. It measured about 3/8" at the breech and swallowed more than half of a 180 grain WFN. THIS was not something I could fix and it did cause some leading issues, making it a little more picky than I prefer, but something I am equipped to deal with if everything else is good, which it was - almost.
The SA and DA pulls were off the scale (RCBS, spring-type trigger-pull scale) and completely unacceptable. Having MIM hammer and trigger, I just don't know how they are hardened and if it's advisable to stone or polish. They could be surface-hardened for all I know and I am pretty sure they are. I had to "dehorn" the aggerssive hammer spur and the file skated on the first stroke but really dug in thereafter. OK for the spur, but not the interface of the sear/sear-notch. The reason I needed to dehorn t he spur was that my thumb literally got chewed up cocking it while testing loads, because the hammer spring was so stiff.
I've not had the best luck lightening hammer springs on Taurus revolvers and I won't even think about lightening the trigger return spring, because reset issue pop up like right now.
I would have kept it and tolerated that, but Rossi started harping on their own (manufactured by Taurus) SIX-shot version, supposedly on the same frame size, but with even NICER features AND Rossi has hung onto the hammer-mounted firing pin and old Smith hammer block/rebound slide components, which make for a MUCH nicer trigger, both DA and SA.
Yes, I'm being rather picky, but I intend to only have two DA revolvers, bot 3", five (or six)-shot 357s in stainless and I want them to be perfect. These are not just my CCW guns, but my woods/trail/field/goofing off guns and I want/need both SA and DA for more than moments where adrenaline overrides such "issues" as I complain of above.
Overall, these guns are really, really nice guns and priced right to boot. Service may be something to worry about, but they seem to have really steeped up their game and maybe service won't be as much as issue? I'm much more a Charter fan, design-wise, but Taurus is kicking some serious butt with refinement of features and the execution thereof right now.
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