thinking of buying a Taurus

You will be soooooorrrrrrrrrryyyyyyy!

Run-don't walk-from the Taurus. Be prepared to send it back a minimum of two times to the factory if you need repairs. Do youself a favor-get a Ruger.
 
"Taurus has a lifetime warrenty, for the life of the gun, not the buyer, so in the RARE chance a lemon turns up it can be sent back to the factory."

Actually it's rare if you don't get a lemon with Taurus, run a search here on TFL for (Taurus repair), or (Taurus broke) and you will be up for about a year straight reading all the problems various folks have had with all their products including 2 threads of mine. When it costs $35+ bucks to continually ship your Taurus POS back to Miami for half-assed repairs, that bargain Taurus becomes a big money pit that you will have to either live with, or take a huge loss on.
 
Well, I guess I'm an exception to the repair stories...

I did have a problem with my new 731UL. I sent it to Taurus USA for repair one week, and it was returned to me the next week.

KR
 
Big Bad,

If you look up any gun on TFL or any similar forum you will have the negative accentuated. You will see the same thing with rugers and glocks, both of which have a reputation for ruggedness.
 
I guess I'm one of the rare ones who didn't get a lemon, My Taurus 650 works just fine. But I've had 3 Kel-tec p-11's and a pair of grendels that worked fine too, maybe I'm just living right.
 
"Big Bad,

If you look up any gun on TFL or any similar forum you will have the negative accentuated. You will see the same thing with rugers and glocks, both of which have a reputation for ruggedness."

Not anywhere near to the extent of Taurus. :barf:
 
Kentucky Rifle wrote, "Well, I guess I'm an exception to the repair stories...
I did have a problem with my new 731UL. I sent it to Taurus USA for repair one week, and it was returned to me the next week.

KR"


KR, didn't you post about problems you had with a Taurus product, and customer service there after, and had to seek help from another TFL'er in Brazil to contact the President on your behalf because of the horrid service you received? Seems like a lot of trouble that any Taurus minion in Miami should be able to resolve.
 
Big Bad Wolf...

You've got a good memory. Yes, that was me. I asked a Brazilian member to call the home office for me and speak to them in Portuguese. The Brazil company contacted Taurus USA regarding their service policies and I honestly believe things are better and quicker now. I KNOW the fellow with whom I've developed a relationship at Taurus USA is trying very hard to improve the turn-around time for pistols that have to be sent back for service. There's another member here with a titanium CIA that had a binding cylinder. His pistol was repaired just as quickly as mine was. I believe we should give Taurus USA another chance. That's my opinion anyway. It's not like you have to keep sending e-mail after e-mail, and when the gun finally comes back, you wonder if it's a "recycled" model someone else had sent in. You get a repaired or honest to God--New Gun.

KR
 
Some people at our club have gone for the Taurus marketing approach of constantly bringing out what look like great ideas. We see the guns on the line for a short time - then never again and not a word about them.
 
KR, my experience with Taurus has been recent, 2 months recent. I bought a 650 CIA 8 weeks ago and it did not make though 10 rounds before the gun seized in every possible way. Well, my brand new "great deal" now just cost me $40 bucks to ship off for repairs. It took them 5 weeks for turnaround and I wanted them to fix the binding, a cross-threaded stripped out frame screw, and the cylinder release which had a lot of play in it, what I got it back was the same revolver, with the same problems, the only difference is that I could depress the trigger but the rotation of the cylinder was choppy and inconsistent. I struck a deal with the gunshop I bought it from and I bought a 340PD in the Tauri's place.

BTW, the reason I remember your thread is because I searched high and low on TFL and GT before I bought the Taurus to study up on them, I ran across a many threads saying how their auto's suck and their revolvers were good, I saw various threads about how their older revolvers gave problems, I saw a few threads about new purchase revolvers breaking, and the biggest and my personal favorite thing I read were parts just falling out of guns. Well, the key threads I ran across on TFL and GT that led to the purchase were saying how the 650 CIA was a watershed for quality and that Taurus was the model of quality now, well I'm here to tell you that has not happened yet :barf:
 
Our family (that's me, my Dad, my Wife, and both her parents) have owned 3 Taurus revolvers, a 605 (.357), 85UL,(.38) and 94UL(.22lr) and 4 semi's (3 PT's and one Millenium)... Of all those, NONE have ever malfunctioned in any way. Granted, they aren't Titanium, but they have all been good stuff. Of all the ones we had, the only 2 that have ever been sold, both mine, were the 85UL (wanted a semi-auto) and a very early PT100 (downpayment on a USP45).

I'm looking around at pocket pistols, and the Taurus revolvers are most certainly on the list.
 
I used to think taurus revolvers were the greatest thing doing the middle to late 90's but no more.My newest is a M-85 that groups 4-5" to the right at 20' shooting S/A.This is with winchester 130 fmj's,umc 130 fmj's,remington 158gr+P.I could see it being off a inch or so but 4"-5" is just too much,don't they test fire them at the factory anymore? so do yourself a favor and just say no to taurus.
 
I don't know if this is completely relevant, but I recently bought a Rossi snub-nose 357 (Mod R461). I was very impressed with its quality look and smooth DA trigger pull - that is until it froze up after about 20 rounds of +P 38 Sp through it. I have shipped it back to BrazTech for repairs, but I am going to have trouble ever being confident in it after that disquieting feel of hanging up in the middle of firing. This was supposed to be a carry gun. Glad I wasn't trying to fend off an armed assailant! I hope this doesn't turn out to be another one of the posted horror stories, but so-far-so-bad. Some of the respondents have had very good luck with Taurus/Rossi; so, I guess the real question is "Do you feel lucky?" (H. Callahan).
 
I love my TT 357 Tracker. I own alot of pricier guns but the Tracker is MORE accurate

No other manufacture could produce a total light weight titanium 357mag so I checked out the Taurus. I wasnt a Taurus fan in the beginning because I always thought of them as S&W knock-offs but the Raging Bull and Total Titanium got me looking closer at Taurus.
The action is better than my Ruger and the accuracy is better than my S&W 686 and is equal to my Python. Fit and finish is excellent.
I would think the Taurus bashing has alot to do with the not "Made in America" issue. The gun is so light I take it every time I go into the woods. I cant say that with all my other guns.
 
Buy New

I just purchased a new Taurus 627SS4 (.357, 7 Rds, 4 In. SS) from a local dealer for about $50 more than the used Taurus you are considering. The MSRP on the gun is $508.00. It looks good, feels good, and shoots good. It will take .38 ammunition.

Another Taurus I'm considering for carry is the 617SS (.357, 7 Rds, 2In. SS and weighs 24Oz. The all titainium 616SH2C weighs 19Oz. and could probably be purchased new for around $500.00.

I'd buy the Stainless and you won't be sooooooorry.

:D
 
That price is quite high. Around here you can buy a brand new S&W 642 or 637, or a brand new Ruger SP101 for that money or less. Regardless of whether the Taurus is a decent gun, any of these 3 will maitain it's value much better than any Taurus.

Bill
 
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