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Update: they are replacing it with a G2s (or a G2c). Not what I was hoping for.
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And as I reload for 9mm I can feed it should I keep it. Could have been worse I guess...Look on the bright side it'll be NIB, so you shouldn't take too much of a financial hit... Especially now with a shortage of firearms and a high demand...
Heh... I did buy a very nice S&W revolver. It has brought me much joy and I assume will continue to do so long after the replacement Taurus has shuffled off it's mortal coil...The proper replacement for a Taurus revolver is the S&W revolver you should have bought in the first place.
Friends don't let friends buy Taurus.
I speak from personal experience. My first small revolver was a Taurus Model 85 in stainless, 1992. On the first shot I suffered spitting lead. Bad. By the third shot the cylinder locked up. I did get the crane to release. The forcing cone had cracked right into the rifling. Taurus had a good warranty at the time and replaced it for free, but in my mind, a brand gets one shot, and Taurus missed by a country mile.
Update: they are replacing it with a G2s (or a G2c). Not what I was hoping for.
Could have been ALOT worse ! Glad you made it out !!!True story. A girl told me she was a taurus and sure enough, cracked forcing cone so I'm out.
Gee another my taurus broke thread.
Yup, and if you had a gold bar half of the people here would tell you it was worthless and trade it for a cat turd.It's hilarious you could ask about a literal cat turd and half the people here would swing in saying how great it tastes and it's just as good as a ribeye.
Smh
I guess we should just agree to disagree...Most of those companies you mentioned put out junk products too, with the exception of Colt, Glock and Wilson. Those 3 would be the only ones I would be willing to trust my life to their products.
What about the new COLT Python that has been plagued with problems since its new arrival?
Glock has had several recalls in its history too.
What do you think the failure rate for Colt/Wilson/Glock and Taurus is?
If Taurus has a failure rate 10 times higher, do you consider that equivalent?
Is there a reason knowledgeable and experienced gun people will generally tell you stay away from Taurus?
IMO anyone steering people towards these sub par products is someone who is not qualified to have an opinion worth listening to. Not all opinions are equal.
After a few thousand rounds downrange, I feel I am qualified to have an opinion as much as someone who does not have "hands-on" experience with ANY weapon.
Hard to have an intellectual debate when you ignore nuance and logic.
What do you think the failure rate for Colt/Wilson/Glock and Taurus is?
If Taurus has a failure rate 10 times higher, do you consider that equivalent?
Hard to have an intellectual debate when you ignore nuance and logic.
Taurus had a good warranty at the time and replaced it for free, but in my mind, a brand gets one shot, and Taurus missed by a country mile.
Most gun owners don't even shoot enough to know if their firearms have issues.Yet you have no idea what the failure rate is for Taurus vs. Colt/Wilson/Glock, do you?
Please show everyone here where there is a database for firearm failure rates instead of just people spouting conjecture and things like "well I had a Taurus in 1994 and it broke, so all Taurus firearms are bad..."
Are Taurus firearms indeed less quality than S&W and Glocks? Yes they are. You can inspect them and tell the difference.
But when you state matter-of-factly that Taurus firearms fail at a much higher rate than other firearms, yet have no database or proof for that statement, that is pretty much ignoring logic.
I hear more stories of people having to send Rugers back to the factory than I do Taurus.
I've owned quite a few firearms over the decades and you want to know how any Taurus products I've had fail? Zero. You want to know how many S&W pistols I've had to send back to S&W? Two.
So, according to the logic in this post, I should only buy Taurus rather than S&W:
How many millions of firearms does Taurus sell to inexperienced or first-time gun owners that induce failures due to ignorance or improper use?
You can spend five minutes on the internet and look up the consumer ratings and failure rates for automobiles, TVs, mattresses, or washer and dryers. But when it comes to firearms, we have to rely on word of mouth, conjecture, and personal experience.
The bottom line is that Taurus may very well be the Fiat-Chrysler of the firearms world, but there is no empirical database that is unbiased and based on numerical facts.