Taurus PT-945 & Carry Mode.

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The Taurus PT-945 has a unique manual safety. If you engage it in one direction, it decocks the hammer and disengages the trigger so that the gun can not be fired (similar to how my S&W pistols operate). If you engage the safety in the other direction, the gun then becomes cocked & locked (similar to how my Para-Ordnance works). It would appear that this is the best of both worlds. Does anyone have any experience with this particular model with regard to quality, accuracy & reliability?
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I really like the 940... it's a little smaller than the 945 though. It looks good, and feels well-balanced. I personally would carry it DA instead of SA though... Thats just me. The safety location is a MUCH better choice on the Taurus than on the Beretta or S&W. I'm afraid the white grips and gold switches are going to have to go though ;o)

we're gonna have to shoot some time,
Ben

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[This message has been edited by Ben (edited August 17, 2000).]
 
Uhhh FUD,

On my 945 if you decock it and let the lever return to the starting point (as opposed to flipping it up and puting the safety on) it is now in DA mode. Please check yours, I would hate to see another FUD disaster story over on GD :D .
 
Ben, the picture was the only side-shot photo on the web that I could find with a minimum of searching.

Greg, I don't have one yet but was thinking about buying one. Thanks for the correction. I take it then that based on what you said, it does not have a safety in DA mode -- only a decocker and a safety in SA mode. Right?
 
FUD,

Not quite (glad that the photo is above so you can scroll up and see what I'm talking about), the safety/decocker works both in SA or DA mode. You push down on it (see the notch in the grip) to decock the hammer. If you then flip the lever up into the traditional safe position it will work in either DA or SA mode. The only thing that I would be concerned with if you carried it cocked and locked is that there is no grip safety in addition to the frame safety. If you managed to wipe if off while carrying it around you would only have the light SA trigger between you and BANG. When I carry mine it is with the hammer down, safety on (I've only managed to wipe the safety off once and that was when I first started carrying it and was constantly fiddling with it. So I'm not sure if it is too big of a concern).

Hope this helped a bit, it is a nice pistol. One thing that you should know is that there aren't many holsters made for it specifically (I have a tuckable Galco for a Glock 17 (I think) that works) and not many aftermarket magazines. Still, for the money it works well.

Greg
 
On both of the PT-945s I've owned, the safety levers were much easier to disengage than engage. This is not a good thing, IMO, for carrying cocked and locked. That's why I always carried mine DA.

The folks at Taurus told me that they could make the safety work the opposite way (harder to disengage) if I'd send them the guns. I never sent them back, as I traded one in on a Colt 1991A1 Compact and a friend talked me into selling him the other one.
 
I carried mine with the safety on after de-cocking. I carried it in a Jim Burkes SOB and did have the safety come off several times while driving. If you have short fingers or a fat hand you might want to shoot one before buying. I sold mine basically because it would hammer bite the hell out of me every time I shot it. Great shooting gun and my only other bitch was not being able to find an adjustable rear sight for it.
 
I would have to second the complaint about hammer bite -- for a while I thought it was just me, but I don't have this problem with any other autos. Mine shoots well otherwise, though, and is reasonably concealable. I would also agree that, given the weakness of the safety disengagement, I would only carry this weapon in DA mode. Best wishes.

Andrew
 
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