Respectively disagree with your disagreement
Q - I respectively disagree with you on your disagreement<GRIN>. Money is an object with me and I choose a Taurus because it was 100.00 less than the equivilent Ruger, after having the gun for 3 months (actually I have only had it for a couple of weeks the factory has had it for the rest of the time). Knowing what I know now, I would have gladly paid the extra 100.00 for a gun that was reliable. The problem that Taurus is experiencing right now is inconsistent quality control (both in manufacturing and repair), if you buy a Taurus you might very well get a fantastic gun for a good price, but on the other hand you might not and there is simply no way to tell. Since I started sharing my ordeal with people on the boards I have received quite a few replies that have gone both ways, people who have been extremely happy with their purchase and never had a problem and people who have had to send their guns back to the factory multiple times (3 so far from me)in an attempt to get them repaired. The replies have been about evenly split between the two categories, in my opinion that ratio is far too high for a person that is having trouble scraping up the cash for the purchase in the first place. Based on my experience I just bought a Beretta 92 instead of the Taurus PT99, it has less features, it costs 100.00 more, but the chances of getting a firearm that will go bang when I pull the trigger are much greater.