Taurus durability?

Good lord. This is worse than the Hi-Point firefights! :D

I can't say myself that I'd ever buy a Taurus. I've heard too many bad things about their customer service to want to trust them, even though I know some of them are excellent firearms. I shot a friend's PT92 once, and it seemed to work just fine.
 
as far as the locking block i can tell you in the millitary we still point out to inspect this for cracks when cleaning the m9. BUT in my 22 years i have never seen a cracked or broken block.
 
Compare the internet stuff with the actual users of the gun world wide and what they see and experience.
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I am an actual "user". I was an actual owner of a (newly purchased) Taurus PT-99. My locking block did fail, and it failed in less than 1000 rounds. I've already detailed the rest of what happened.

So, either you think I'm just some liar and my postings on this topic is more "unreliable internet stuff", or I guess that what happened to me was a 1 in 10,000 fluke?
 
I think Jim K is right. How about the US made versions? Same issue? I'm looking at a TCP. I know how South American quality can be. I bought a Rossi stainless .22 revolver, looked like a SW all the way, good finish etc. It was key holing (sp?) at 15 yards. Upon closer look, the rifling was hardly visible. I returned it to them, and they replaced the barrel. It is fine now. But, Jim is right.

Again... is the USA made product better? Toyota may not think so.
 
50/50

Bought a blue 605 snub, that snub is great! That was for the wife. Liked it so much that I got a stainless one for myself. That went back to Florida twice. Seems to be fixed now, but I just don't have faith in it. Even after 200 .38s and 50 .357s since the last fix. This was all only since Spring 2009. Think I'll sell it at a loss and get myself a Ruger SP101. We'll keep the blue one though. That one's a shooter.
 
I've just recently picked up a Taurus 6" 699. Got it about the same time as a 6" 28-2 S&W. Both had their first range sessions with me at the same time. The Taurus is an older model, been around, but I'm not sure just how old.

I was VERY impressed. As good as the Smith? No. But pretty close. The finish on the Taurus is pretty nice. Good trigger. Pretty darn accurate. I am stoked with my Taurus.

Get back with me on the durability thing...:cool:
 
"I am an actual "user". I was an actual owner of a (newly purchased) Taurus PT-99. My locking block did fail, and it failed in less than 1000 rounds. I've already detailed the rest of what happened.

So, either you think I'm just some liar and my postings on this topic is more "unreliable internet stuff", or I guess that what happened to me was a 1 in 10,000 fluke?"

I've fired around 3,000 rounds without issue on my PT99 that I bought used, so not sure how many total rounds on the original firing block. Combining my experience along with all the great reviews I read on this gun, I would most certainly conclude you are the exception and got a bad one, every manufacturer of pretty much every thing has those.
Btw, it's obvious looking at the locking block in my gun that it has been worked, that it's not some universal part that all are the same and fit all guns - how is it your gunsmith didn't understand that? you think a light bulb would have gone off in his head after the second rough one arrived, but he was still clueless after the third? I also question his gorilla approach to dismantling the gun, later to learn the barrel should have been cut out - why did he act first and ask questions later? seems to me your gunsmith's intelligence/experience had as much to do with your current resentment as your PT99.
 
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One actual case, if that is true does not over ride the fact that the PT92 has major success here in the USA and world wide.

Bring the overwhelming proof. I brought mine. Hard core data folks. It would also be published in gun industry journals or other data. Police journals, military journals, civilian journals, would have it. Yet the gun industry and the shooting fraternity do not seem to have that.

In the links was shown that the locking block thing was taken care of for the msot part. The complaints section at the Taurus forum has very little of that kind thing going on or in the past.

Since the complaint area an gunsmithing section have little to nothing on the PT92 block, and it would if it were a real overall problem, then it should be there as a regular item. It is not.

For the majority of users it is not a problem. Nor would anyone buy a gun that would not stand up to thousands of rounds of ammo that have gone down range for the majority of users. The police in Asia and world wide users would not buy and use the gun if it were faulty. The Taurus users are not stupid, the USA users are not stupid, and the world at large are not so.Or incompetent.

Or is that where you guys are going with this? It would seem so. Bad idea if it is.
 
I can hardly wait. This would not be the first time at this forum that the "anointed ones" called the world incompetent and morons. Not only that but declared all internet threads and posts on guns as irrelevant. That included themselves. I just followed their "logic" to it's final conclusions. It was amazing.
 
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