This review is pretty good, anyone have first hand experience with this pistol?
http://pocket-defense.com/2010/05/taurus-pt1911-review/#more-150
http://pocket-defense.com/2010/05/taurus-pt1911-review/#more-150
With its hand-fitted assembly, custom features, and long list of premium-design accessories, how can Taurus possibly afford to sell the PT 1911 at such a low cost?
Slides and frames on both the blued and stainless versions are Taurus-forged, not cast, and are individually hand-fitted to match-level tolerances during assembly.
All accessories and operating controls are individually fitted.
Taurus has become a national leader in MIM technology
OK, got that out of the way, with all seriousness, That review reads just like gun rag trash.
this guy knows the sham-wow guy. Really well.
For all intents and purposes, the PT 1911 is assembled with what we in the U.S. would call a custom shop approach.
This type of jargon from a sales person is what I call "horsedump".
Not every thing in "quotations" means its true.
ok, Ill give em this one. Ive seen a lot of sh!tty guns at some matches.
The forged match-grade barrels (stainless on both the blued and stainless guns) are also individually fitted, with a polished feedramp, polished barrel throat, an air-gauged solid barrel bushing, plus a hardened barrel link and lug for long wear and an enduring fit in heavy-duty use. Each PT 1911 hammer/sear/trigger setup is individually fitted and tuned, receiving a U.S. gunshop-equivalent trigger job. The internal extractor is individually tuned. There are no drop-in parts.
If anyone who's looking for their first 1911 can tell me what all that stuff means and why its good, Ill build them a gun.
This is what you would call anywhere from an outright lie to stretching the truth. Depending on their definition of "fitting".
yay for taurus.
To answer your question, its not a bad entry level gun if youre willing to live with cheaply made and ill-fitted custom like parts.
Its not the deal of the century either, not even close. A STI Spartan is a better starter 1911.
OK, got that out of the way, with all seriousness, That review reads just like gun rag trash.
this guy knows the sham-wow guy. Really well.
For all intents and purposes, the PT 1911 is assembled with what we in the U.S. would call a custom shop approach.
This type of jargon from a sales person is what I call "horsedump".
Not every thing in "quotations" means its true.
ok, Ill give em this one. Ive seen a lot of sh!tty guns at some matches.
The forged match-grade barrels (stainless on both the blued and stainless guns) are also individually fitted, with a polished feedramp, polished barrel throat, an air-gauged solid barrel bushing, plus a hardened barrel link and lug for long wear and an enduring fit in heavy-duty use. Each PT 1911 hammer/sear/trigger setup is individually fitted and tuned, receiving a U.S. gunshop-equivalent trigger job. The internal extractor is individually tuned. There are no drop-in parts.
If anyone who's looking for their first 1911 can tell me what all that stuff means and why its good, Ill build them a gun.
This is what you would call anywhere from an outright lie to stretching the truth. Depending on their definition of "fitting".
yay for taurus.
To answer your question, its not a bad entry level gun if youre willing to live with cheaply made and ill-fitted custom like parts.
Its not the deal of the century either, not even close. A STI Spartan is a better starter 1911.
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