Can you educate me on the Taurus pt92?

Here's some info about the Taurus 92 I posted in another thread.

His one glitch in owning the gun was that when the gun was new he ran a couple patches down the barrel and took it to the range and ran a hundred or so rounds without problems. He took it home, field stripped it and cleaned it pretty good his (and mine) time tested Hoppes #9, tooth brush and rags and then lubed with a couple drops of whatever oil was handy. We generally use Mobile 1 or Remoil, or I think he said he had some Outer’s that time. Anyway, next time at the range (with me along to shoot the ‘new’ gun) all we got was click, click, click. The primers were not getting hit. There’s a plunger in the slide that blocks the firing pin unless the trigger is pulled. The plunger apparently was not moving. Since it was a new gun we went back the store and the gunsmith there flushed the slide with some solvent (took about 5 or 10 minutes) and the gun has been flawless ever since. His opinion is that the first field strip cleaning my friend did managed to partially dissolve some factory preservative that seeped down around the plunger and jammed it. His ‘thorough’ cleaning dissolved the gunk completely.

Bottom line is the gun has run well for a couple years without problems.

My friend does wish he could have gotten the 99 model which is the same as the 92 but with adjustable sights. Apparently the adjustable sight model is a little easier to disassemble the slide too. There’s a pin under the rear sight. The fixed sight model you have to drift the sight off the slide to get at it. The adjustable sight gun you just have to unscrew rear sight adjusting screw all the way.
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Hope this helps.
 
I cannot speak to the Stoeger but I have 2 PT92s and a PT99....... if that tells you anything. All have never had a failure of any kind. I find them quite accurate and a pleasure to shoot.
 
I am quite sure that the Taurus PT92 will not accept magazines made for the Beretta 92 series.

I have never owned one. I have shot a few and they were nice and those I know who have owned them like them a lot.

But I have read about a few horror stories as well, including one PT92 that made it out of the factory with no rifling in the barrel.
 
tough

An elderly gent in our IDPA circle shot a Taurus 92.....alot. His round count was very high. I don't remember any specific details, but as I recall, he shot it so much, Taurus ended up sending him another slide.
 
I have a pt99. It's been fed thousands upon thousands of rounds. Don't know the exact amount. Dad bought it second had and I inherited it. But it's never failed. Super reliable. As others have mentioned the 92 is pretty close to the 99. Minus the adjustable sights

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I bought one new in the late 80's. Shot it a bunch. Very accurate and a pretty nice trigger. Really wish I would have tried to put a lighter hammer spring in it like I have my Berettas. When my son turned 21, I had a NIB Glock 17 in the safe for his birthday. He wanted the Taurus PT-99 instead. He has it now. I bought him some 18 round Mec-Gar mags for this Christmas. No it does not take Beretta mags.

The Taurus 92 and 99 are some of the best pistols that company has ever made. The materials the guns are made from is top notch. That gun has had several thousand rounds through it and no issues at all. The only problems I have ever heard is some people have had issues with the adjustable sights coming loose on the PT-99's. I haven't had that issue with this one.
 
IIRC, Beretta had a factory in Brazil. After their government contract ran out, Taurus bought the factory. They have been making slightly modified versions of several Beretta firearms ever since.

I bought a PT99 (the version with adjustable sights) brand-new in 1989 or so. I still own it, and it has been accurate and reliable. My FiL has a Beretta 92. We both prefer my Taurus because the Taurus safety/decocker is much better than the Beretta one, and mine has a slightly better trigger.

I also own an oddball Beretta 96 (a 92 in 40 caliber, basically) that has no safety or decocker of any kind. Its trigger is better than the one on my Taurus 99, so I would probably prefer shooting it, except for the fact that my FiL reloads 9mm for us, but not 40 caliber.

So, in my somewhat limited experience, the Taurus is of comparable quality to the Beretta.

PS, in case anyone is curious, my Frankenstein 96 is an Italian SA/DA frame with an American DAO slide.
 
It is possible to alter Beretta mags (easily) to use them in a PT92...but unless you have a bunch of Beretta mags, why bother? MecGar makes a beautiful anti friction coated 18rd mag that works great.
I found a used PT92 from '97 in like new condition for $265 last year, and it is a fantastic shooter. Seems to be the equal of a Beretta 92FS I used to own.
 
I have a PT92AFS that now has close to 5,000 rounds on it, with never an issue. It is just so smooth at everything it does, I found myself stopping in the middle of a range session once to admire it.

I bought it new over the Berreta 92 because I wanted the frame-mounted safety/decocker. No regrets.

9 pound DA and 4 pound SA trigger, very smooth.

I don't shoot it much these days; I shoot my Shield mostly, since that's what I carry.

Sorry, I don't know anything about the Cougar.
 
My Taurus pt92 that I bought in 1990 has never had a malfunction. I like the safety better than my Beretta 92fs. I don't plan on getting rid of either.
 
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