Taurus Firearms
tanksoldier said:
I've heard that Taurus was having problems with their 745 model pistols, polymer cracking after a few hundred rounds, things like that.
Anybody know if this is true, and if so has it been resolved?
Here is the story on Taurus, they are HQ's in my home of Miami, FL.
Waaaaaay back when there were two firearms factories owned by two international brands in South America. One was a Beretta factory and one a Smith and Wesson factory. Look at the early revolvers and semi-autos. See any similarities? They still make those too. I'm pretty sure that Chuck Norris on Walker Texas Ranger has a chrome example in later episodes. Lo and the time came that the national government took exception at the mega-$$$ each was reaping and sending out of the country and they went and
nationalized those factories. Taurus was born.
For the first 10 or so years of production they were crappy on QC. But in the fullness of time, they got better, especially after they moved HQ to Miami and hired some serious folks with experience in the business. I have not heard much negative about them recently.
A friend of mine used to be their PR guy until he moved to greener pastures. Taurus used to hold a "RAMBLE" at Markham Park shooting range. They would invite other competitors to come and display wares and let the public (for a small range fee) actually put rounds down range to comparison shop. Local instructors ran the safety aspect (I was one such) and were allowed to shoot for free and a free lunch. Worth it for an afternoon of shooting different models from different companies. I got to fire the RAGING BULL 454 and 480. They turn out some nice guns these days. I'd like to get one of their snubbies in a 45 Colt, or maybe 44 sp.
But about six years ago, I had a M85 snubbie in 38sp. At a range of 15 FEET it shot a FOOT LOW. I got rid of it. But I think that was an exception, not the norm. I would tend to think that if this is a NEW model you're speaking of, they might still be working out the "BUGS" so to speak.