Taurus- Listen Up!

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While digesting my latest issue of Gun Week I came across picture of the new Taurus .45 ACP Tracker using the Stellar moonclips. The more I looked at it the more I could envision one of these with the following features:

Titanium.
3" ported Barrel.
Concealed (Bobbed) hammer.
Fixed sights w/ AO Big Dot tritium front sight.

Though I like the "Ribber" grips for recoil control I would prefer wood or something like a Monogrip for CCW. Less chance of hanging up on clothing.

To me this package would most closely meet my criteria for "ultimate" big-bore carry revolver. It would be light weight & use a proven cartridge with many factory loadings available. The 3" tube is a great length for carrying. Very fast reloads are possible with the moonclips. Add to this the snag free hammer and the Big Dot sight and you would have one of the finest CCW packages available.

I can think of a number of my current snubbies that I could replace with just one of these beasts. Maybe even my beloved Rossi Mod. 720 .44 Spl. Nah!!!

How 'bout it Taurus? PLEASE, PLEASE, PRETTY PLEASE???!!!
 
BH,

I don't thintk their issues with the PT series transfer to the revos. Their current production of titanium .41 mag & .45 LC snubs show it's feasible. I think they will produce a .45 ACP in titanium, but with a 2" bbl. I've always preferred the 3" tube for a carry/combat revolver. I just think this package would be the cats pajamas for CCW.
 
Agree.

It just seems that Taurus isn't outwardly very appreciative of customer comments, and when they do have an elephant in the living room, they ignore feedback. Maybe they're just secretive, and that's not a problem if they are.
 
A 2" titanium snubby might have issues with bullet pull. Flyweight revolver + light crimping = bound-up gun. Taurus tried this already with the .40 S&W. A Tracker, sure, but the snubby might be too light. Don't hold yer breath. Same reason we prolly won't see a 10mm either. *Sighhh...*
 
H.R.G makes a good point.
Personally, I think the ultra light guns are a marketing ploy, not viable tools.

Sam
 
taurus just over does good ideas. i don't like the porting on so many of their guns.i almost always replace grips,so that isn't a problem for me.i'd like a short barrell shroud on some of their models also.
why can't S&W issue a 627 that looks just like the old 27,with a 4"barrell.or how about a 5 shot 45 long colt instead of the 44 russian;you too ruger.
and ruger,how about a 4" redhawk with a sp101/gp100/SRH grip frame for us diminutive folk? why you? you guys make the best frame,ejector,cylinder lock and release. and dump that god awful hammer; it's the ugliest thing on a gun since...well,glock made a run for the title,lets put it that way.do something along the line of the bisley hammer,'cause it has class.
and lastly,colt? grow some. offer the anaconda in a few more configurations,and the python in a 2 1/2 again.and on the anaconda,that cast trigger and hammer look like gray mud.i mean there's a big cast mark on every one of 'em.real afterthought,if you ask me.
anybody seen one of those astra 44's around?
 
Taurus' Questionable QC

FWIW, we have a small firearms business and used to sell many Taurus PT99s and PT101s. They were great and we never had one returned for service. But seven (7) of the last 10 Taurus products we sold came back with serious defects. E.G.: A Mod 44 with chambers so tight that spent cases wouldn't eject (factory ammo); a Mod. 85 with a malformed ejector; three autos with terminal extraction/ejection issues, and so on. All were QC issues which should never have left the factory.

Taurus has a "Lifetime Warrantee" and they did fix each gun, BUT, took up to nine weeks to do so. As I told them, some of my customers only own one gun and shouldn't be without it for that long.

Maybe they treat their big corporate customers better, but in my little-bitty mind, if I sell you a gun, I expect the manufacturer to back it -- regardless whether I sell ten guns a month or 500...

It's really a shame, too -- I love the .41Mag caliber and would really like one of their .41Mag snubbies for my personal carry. I just don't have enough trust in them to do so.
 
I don't think that Taurus has ever made a Tracker with any of those features. They seem to only put those features in their compact self-defense style revolvers, and even then you'd have to take a 2" barrel over a 3", since I they don't make any guns with 3" barrels (if I'm not mistaken).

I would suggest looking at other manufacturers since .45ACP revolvers are getting popular, though Taurus is the only one that prominently features those characteristics you're looking for. Ruger makes a single action revolver with Long Colt and ACP cylinders, maybe they have something similar to the SP-101 in .45ACP or will in the future.

I have a Taurus in .357magnum, and I like it a lot; but I wouldn't trust something huge like a .454 from them, so I don 't know what to make of the Tracker. I'm very curious about how .45ACP compares to .45 Long Colt. Is .45ACP practical in a revolver, or is it just a gimmick?
 
No Taurus for me! A dealer I know sends over 1/2 of the Taurus guns back before they hit his showcase. He's thinking about dropping the Taurus line--too much trouble to fool with. He says no problems with the S&W and Ruger products altho he prefers the Smiths.
 
Demogorgo:
"Is .45ACP practical in a revolver, or is it just a gimmick?"

Yes. For someone who is already sold on the idea of five .44 Special rather than six .357 Magnum, the .45 ACP adds:
factory defense ammo with a track record of reliablity,
and full-moon clips, which are faster than speedloaders.

I don't have a ballistics chart handy, but I'm pretty sure the .45 ACP beats the old cowboy loads in .45 Colt, but can't match the magnum loadings.
 
My experience with Taurus.

Over the last ten or so years I have owned six Taurus revolvers. Five were varieties of .357 and one was a Model 85 (38 spcl.). All were NIB and only new, factory ammo was shot in them - no reloads or even plus P ammo was used.

I had to send three (50%) of the revolvers back for factory adjustments. Taurus, true to their warranty statements, repaired each of the defective guns at no cost to me - except shipping of course.

The three revolvers I did NOT have to return (Model 85, Model 66, and a 4", steel Tracker), all turned out to be excellent firearms. Because of their questionable QC I am a very, very leery Taurus buyer. In fact, for the last two years I have been a non buyer. FWIW. Good shooting:)
 
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