seeker_two
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Price isn't the point.....reliability is. Is spending $200 on a pistol that has a 50% chance of being a dud a better deal than spending $400 on a pistol with a 10% chance of being a dud?Or like the cliche, but truthful "The 380 in your pocket is better than the 45 you leave at home."
the Taurus with a proven track record you can afford is better than the high end Sig that is still in the case at the gun store where you have been drooling over.
Everyone has the right to self defense. But not everybody can afford a $1000+ gun for it.
To some it may be a Hi-Point. To others a Taurus, Glock, Springfield , S&W etc up the pricing scale. But to those with the deepest pockets, and thickest wallets it's high end guns.
I was a big Taurus fanboy in the '90's. I had a PT-908 that I loved, and a 941 that I still have & enjoy. The one time I used their customer service (weak extractor spring on the 908), they repaired it and refinished the pistol for free....within two weeks. I've recently inherited a PT-145 made then that works great.
Since the 2000's, Taurus QC really tanked. At best, you have a 1/3 chance of getting a dud. And their customer service tanked with it.....likely due to the volume of returns. And they kept this policy up for over a decade.
I don't know about Taurus today, but I haven't seen anything that tells me that things have improved. If anything, the new 1-yr warranty worries me more. I could not, in good conscience, recommend Taurus to anyone today. And I hate that....because I still miss that PT-908.
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