Why all the Taurus hate?

[kennedy]

You just have to shrug it off...I have to agree with the quality in the past few years, it has improved greatly. I have owned a few of the Taurus variety and never had an issue with any. Now as to my smith and wesson's I have owned, I have sent them back for warranty work after the first 30 rounds fired. Does that make S&W a bad gun, no...just that gun was bad. Every brand has their bottom end and their higher end guns. I could buy me a S&W sigma and base all of my opinions about what junk S&W is or I can look at it as a whole and understand that all companies have their shortcomings with certain lines. If you buy a Taurus Millenium(as I have heard have nothing but problems like the sigma), but if you buy a berreta style(sorry don't know the model number) or a 1911...they are great guns as well as their revolvers. So I say it's a wash and buy what you enjoy shooting and stop crapping on others likes or dislikes.

 

[inactive]

firing pin/spring issues

I have seen this first hand. Many of them are prone to light strikes. My father still has a turd of a Millenium in 9mm that fires off a round about ever 3 trigger pulls. At least it has a "second strike" feature

The revolver I own works great. My father's other Taurus pistols (a TCP, revolver, and 24/7 in .45) work well too.

But when one of the two we first purchased had an issue, and you see a 50% failure rate first-hand, it supports what you hear about them being lower quality.

 

[reddog1]

I love whatever gun my customers want.

 

[bettingpython]

I have a pt1911, the blued finish is thin and I mean really thin wears fast when you carry it regularly and shoot often, Traxxis refinished this one for me 2 tone duracoat metallic blue and stainless now.

It beat the guide rod into 2 pieces after about 5 thousand rounds, other than that no issues.

I didn't mess the warranty I spent the money on a Wilson 1 piece guide rod and spring and went on about my business.

When I had Traxxis do the finish job I also had him fit a Wilson hammer, did away with the nanny lock which was my other area of concern.

 

[bilboben]

now that is a piece of finery

 

[saddlebum]

go take a three day pistol class and see how many taurus make it through. last 400 round class(1 day) i took there was one 24/7 in the class it made it 180rnds and crashed and burn. i don't believe i have ever seen one make it through a class,

 

[JonN06]

I had a pt140. Never had any particular problems with it. It went bang every time I pulled the trigger. For some reason it just wasn't what I wanted. I sold it to pops to fund a sig p228 purchase that I have been wanting for a long time.

 

[redmax51]

I've owned two in the past yrs, one revolver and one semi, a PT1911.....both shot great, the pt1911 never jammed once, spit out everything I fed it. It was really a good shooter.

The PT1911 is one of the very few 1911's I've shot that performed w/o any failures.A really underated firearm.

 

[Maverick7340]

I don't think it's the guns that are bad. Their customer service is really bad. After dealing with poor CS I won't buy another Taurus just for that reason. It took me a year and several calls to get a part. The first few calls they had no record of my previous calls and nothing was ordered. Then they sent the wrong part on purpose to try to shut me up.

 

[flatwins]

I've owned one (single action Colt copy) that had to go back to Taurus before I ever fired it and I've been around a couple of their other guns. I know I'd never buy one of theirs again but by the same token, I won't buy a newer Smith revolver since they put the lock in them. I don't really have that much against Taurus; it's just that I choose to buy other products. Kind of a Ford/Chevy thing.