range report taurus 94ss5

toast

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I purchased this gun about a month ago (Sept 11) and finally got a chance to shoot it this past Thursday. This is my first an only revolver. I wanted a 22lr and have had many in the past (all autoloaders). 22lr is cheap to shoot, fun, and decent practice. I have had a s&w m41 (awesome gun), and beretta 87t (again, awesome), a ruger 22/45, a sig trailside, a 22lr conversion for a cz 75, and buckmark. Reflecting on these pistols I decided I hated loading 22lr into the mags and just wanted to try something different.

The 94ss5 is a stainess steal, double action, 5" barrel, 9 shot with nice adjustable sights on a small frame with rubber grips. I liked the higher capacity than the ruger sp101 and can't afford a smith and wesson. After reading posts here and in other forums I began to dread my trial at the range.

The double action trigger pull is exceptionally heavy and I can feel multiple 'stages.' Only with alot of concentration am I able to keep the sights inline with the target in double action, its quiet a finger workout.

The single action trigger is really quite good. It is light (3.5-4.5 lbs) and is crisp. After adjusting the sight (I forgot to bring a screw drive) it shot very nicely at the 10 yrd line. All nine shots went into a group about 2" free hand and about 1" from a crappy rest with me crouching down.

At one point I thougth I was having a problem with the gun, (looking for one based on these forums.) I tried to load a round in the cylinder and it refused to go in. I inspected the cylinder and tried again, it still would not go in. I finally inspected the round it self. The casing had stripped back on one portion of the round and was overlapping itself, leaving a nice sized hole just behind the bullet. I had not seen or felt the damage when picking it up to load it, but it was enough so I could not be loaded into the cylinder. I have to say, I am rather glad it didn't. I wonder that in an autoloader it might have cause one heck of a jam, or even worse the slide having enough momentum to break off the overlap and feed it into the chamber. I know the 22lr doesn't have the most power but looking at the hole I wonder if it would have damaged a pistol.

Over all I am well pleased with this gun. The double action is very tough but single action is very nice. It has good sights and shoots straight. For me it is more fun to shoot than an autoloader and shoots as well as some of the more expensive ones well costing about as much as the least expensive (at least in single action). I probably ran about 325 rounds through it and, besides that one round, had a lot of fun and no problems.
 
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