would any of you guys here a tfl trust your life to a taurus?

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45automan

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hey guys iam posting this to get your opinion on something.i posted here a while back that my brother bought a taurus pt92 and i was woundering if it would make a reliable self defense gun?now ive heard guys at the gun shop say a taurus isnt as good a beretta i mean they talk about it like its a jennings for god sake and my reply is well no its not but it cost like almost half as much as the beretta and it sue as hell aint no jennings.what iam getting at is i beleave that its the design of a gun that makes it reliable not the maker and my brother does plan on buying a beretta 92 but the taurus was all he could realy afforn right now so that what he whent with anyway what do you guys think?thanks for your help on this. 45automan.
 
Hello. I'm no real fan of the Beretta 92 series of pistols, but bought an old (pre-decocking) Taurus PT92 some years ago for what I believed was a very good price for the gun being bought.

Several years and quite a bit of ammunition latter, I've not changed my mind.

A few thousand rounds of handloads and factory ammuntion have been fired through this pistol, both ball and JHP, mostly the latter.

There have been no malfunctions. It feeds slickly and ejection's positive.

While the fixed sights are not the best out there, they are usuable and mine were "dead on" from the factory with standard pressure rounds.

Best.
 
I also have one of the pre-decock Taurus PT92AF pistols and it has worked flawlessly. It is also the pistol that is next to my bed, so I guess I do trust my life with it. :)

Ed
 
I've carried a Taurus TP-22 on and off for the past 5 years.

It's a GREAT little gun.

I don't carry it nearly as much now that I have my S&W 042 Airweight.
 
I've owned a PT100 (PT92 in .40 cal.) for 7 years and actually carried it on a daily basis for a year. It has never given me one problem although it does not care for Hydra-Shok ammunition which I prefer for my defense pistols.

The sights, like Stephen's, shot "dead on" to point of aim out of the box. I did, however, drill out the white paint they use in their dots and used some much whiter paint. They got a lot easier to see.
 
Thousands of Brazilian LEOs do...

but, then again, I think that's all they CAN use. Just kidding.:) I would have NO qualms about any of their autos.
 
I've got an early (pre-decock) PT-92AF and, yes, I'd trust it to defend my life with. I've owned it since new and it's always been reliable and fairly accurate with anything I've fed it.

Joe
 
I've had a PT-92 for a little over a year, and since it is one of my home defense guns, I guess that I not only trust my life with it, but the lives of my entire family too. The Taurus 92 is a good, reliable handgun.
 
Although I have no personal experience I have not read any bad press on the Taurus PT-92 series of pistols. In fact, the contrary. My friend used to be an FFL dealer and to this day he still is convinced that the Taurus is one of the best buys on the market for a quality pistol on a budget (if there's such a thing).

Although, not very sexy, I hear that they are sound, reliable pistols.

SS
 
I bought a model 85 for my carry gun, it was defective out of the box with a 50% failure to fire rate. It took three trips to the factory and 3 months to get them to repair it. With that said, I got it back this week and have put a hundered rounds through it and it is working well now, give it a couple of hundered more rounds and I will pronounce it reliable enough to trust with my life. I love the design and price of their guns, but I just bought a 92 for over a hundered more because I wasn't willing to risk a trip through their warranty service again. In all fairness I have talked to a lot of Taurus owners who have used the warranty service and they are about evenly split on how they were treated, but the percentage that had to send their guns back multiple times to fix the same problem was way too high. If Taurus can deal with their issue of inconsistant quality control (manufacturing/repair) they will be a top notch company, but I don't think they are there yet.

Terry
 
If I had ever trusted my life to my Taurus PT-99 when I owned it I would have ended up dead with a stovepipe jam in the gun and hot 9mm brass in my face (my 99 had a tendency to throw spent cases towards my melon).

Yes, I had a lemon. Every manufacturer of any product puts one out at one time or another.
 
I own, but do not carry a PT-92AFS. It is more of a range pistol. However every time I load it up, it fires. I would trust it. The only reason that I do not carry it, is that it is rather big. My wife carries a Taurus M85UL. I do not consider her to be ill armed.;)
 
Have a PT-99AF (nickle) pre-decocker (an adjustable sighted PT-92). The only time it has failed to chamber was when I used some of my reloads that had out if spec brass dimensions near the base. They look slightly like miniature belted mag casings. That's the problem you run into when you load towards the hot side. (They got tossed out when they are that bad.) No other failures or broken parts in thousands of rounds. A small flake of the nickle plating did come off at the ejection area though but there was still another nickle layer underneath it so you couldn't tell it ever happened.

Otherwise, the gun is great (at least mine). Sounds like the guys at the gun shop had that 'The best gun is the one made by the orignal designer. Everything else is crap.' syndrome. Ask them how they think the Ber 92 compares to the Walther P.38.
 
A Taurus Tracker is the house gun and a Model 85UL is my most frequently carrypiece (although I prefer the Glock 19, it's a bit too big for most of my attire when I carry).

The 85 did go back to the factory...shoots great now.

I use .38+P Triton in both the 85 and the Tracker.
 
Got an old (pre-decocker) PT92AF. I've carried that beat-up old thing before, kept it at hand before, and would again without hesitation.

If I can convince myself that the 9mm is a viable choice again, at least. :)

Steve
 
Ok, just got back from the range and my model 85 has had 200 rounds through it without a hitch and it back on my reliable list. The last smith seems to have fixed the problems introduced by the first two. It is currently where it belongs in my CCW holster. I am still pissed at Taurus over the 3 months that it took to repair a new gun, but I am not going to let that stop me from enjoying it though.

Terry
 
I don't think you have to worry about trusting your life to a name or a price tag. Worry about trusting your life to a design and properly built firearm. Taurus has come a long way in the last few years. I wouldn't hesitate to purchase and trust my life to one of their weapons.

TS
 
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