A Taurus PT92 followed me home. I think I'll keep it.
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I got a Taurus on hold for me as we speak! So excited
Taurus make good guns.
We always suggest G3Cs to customers who just want an inexpensive but reliable carry gun.
Ive got a 44 magnum Ultralight. It's a beast to fire, but a joy to carry all day in the woods.
We always suggest G3Cs to customers who just want an inexpensive but reliable carry gun.
Ive got a 44 magnum Ultralight. It's a beast to fire, but a joy to carry all day in the woods.
I went for a Ruger Security Compact but the Taurus felt like it was made for my hand.
I have the same pistol. It’s ok. I’ll keep my 1911s on hand. But it is a nice pistol regardless. Good catch.
I have a Taurus TCP (.380 pocket pistol). The magazine kept getting released while it was in a Kydex holster with the release fully covered. Sent it back and they fixed it. Overall, not a great gun and I decided that I couldn’t trust my life to it.
There was a class action about the TCP's slide breaking mid fire.
Yes, there was. Not sure of the merit or the outcome, and I wouldn’t let a slip and fall lawyer dictate my buying decisions, but the gun never felt like a quality instrument.
Ive got the same in the safe, not a fave, but beats a Beretta* every time-I prefer the frame mounted safety on the PT92.
*Taurus 92’s are Berrettas technically. Brazil made Beretta set up a factory in country to furnish 92’s (with the safety reconfigured), and kept the factory when the contract was fulfilled.
Last handgun I bought was a Taurus 605 Defender last year (5 shot 3” 357 in same size frame as the Model 85 J-Frame knockoff).
Brazilian-made firearms (along with anything not made in the US, Belgium, Austria, Italy, or Germany) have always mystified me.
As in, it's difficult to imagine a device where the importance of excellent design and execution could be more important.
So why do people even consider them, never mind buy them? To save money?
The old joke that "nothing is more useless than an unloaded weapon when it is needed" comes to mind. Replace unloaded with "doesn't function," "breaks," or "is inaccurate when it does work" and it's the same joke.
Buy the best and cry only once.
As in, it's difficult to imagine a device where the importance of excellent design and execution could be more important.
So why do people even consider them, never mind buy them? To save money?
The old joke that "nothing is more useless than an unloaded weapon when it is needed" comes to mind. Replace unloaded with "doesn't function," "breaks," or "is inaccurate when it does work" and it's the same joke.
Buy the best and cry only once.
Reminds me of the scene from the movie Snatch with Boris the Blade explaining to Tommy about guns..
Best handgun I ever owned was a Taurus PT-911.
It was made for my hand and eye and functioned flawlessly.
A friend has it now. I want it back.
It was made for my hand and eye and functioned flawlessly.
A friend has it now. I want it back.
Says the Dunhill fanatic.
I got tired of my S&W SD9 jamming so I traded it for the Taurus.
Sure, but the Taurus is not the same as a 92 built in Italy or USA.
Taurus doesn't have the quality control or manufacturing components that Beretta uses.
An Italian made 92, even today are fine tuned machines compared to the Taurus clone.
The only thing in common is the Taurus are made on the same machines that Beretta left there 50 years ago. The handguns made by Beretta in Brazil years ago are mear shadows of the Italian or US made 92 of any year. From trigger assembly to metallurgy and finish, there couldn't be anything more different than an Italian made Beretta 92 and the Taurus clone.
In my experience.
The couple of 92FS’s I’ve had ran without a hitch for thousands of rounds each.
The 92 isn’t my preference of platform and was only chosen by DOD to be the M9 because of Beretta’s lucrative support package, not on its individual merits as a sidearm. Name any JSOC unit that chose it for their sidearm since the start of the GWOT….
Then again, I should have kept my participation on a pipe smoking forum to pipe smoking
The 92 isn’t my preference of platform and was only chosen by DOD to be the M9 because of Beretta’s lucrative support package, not on its individual merits as a sidearm. Name any JSOC unit that chose it for their sidearm since the start of the GWOT….
Then again, I should have kept my participation on a pipe smoking forum to pipe smoking
That's a fine piece. Never owned a Taurus but have always had them in the corner of my eye.
Now that we got GAD on here, I'm not sure if this site is the ATF's nightmare or wet dream.
Now that we got GAD on here, I'm not sure if this site is the ATF's nightmare or wet dream.