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UpDate on Truck Incident

select-fireselect-fire Member Posts: 69,529 ✭✭✭✭
edited May 2017 in General Discussion
Mag Tech.. We have reviewed all of your information that you have provided. We have come to the conclusion that this is a firearm issue, not an ammo issue.

So.. Taurus is going to take a look at the PT1911. Sending it in. I ask them to put all the used parts back in the gun and not to replace a thing if they are not broken and they feel nothing is wrong with the gun.

Comments

  • 1911a1-fan1911a1-fan Member Posts: 51,193 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    i would take a serious look at your index finger too [;)]
  • Sam06Sam06 Member Posts: 21,244 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by 1911a1-fan
    i would take a serious look at your index finger too [;)]


    [:0]

    I would tell Taurus to keep the POS too.

    Not trying to gouge you but even when a gun is left out and loaded I think it should be in a holster especially in a truck console where stuff is shifting around. A good holster keeps anything from touching the bang switch.

    Another Piece of advice, and it free, if you are going to leave a gun loaded in your truck console go with a revolver in a holster. Many less things to go wrong. Taurus makes an OK revolver if you like that brand.
    RLTW

  • select-fireselect-fire Member Posts: 69,529 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    That gun outshoots my SRRuger 1911 on accuracy. I sure hope nothing happens to any one of you like just happened to me.
  • kannoneerkannoneer Member Posts: 3,402 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I am a Taurus fan. I have several, with the newest being a stainless 1991 PT99. But more recently Taurus has had issues with some guns going off without pulling the triggers. There are videos on YouTube demonstrating this. This is a serious flaw, as anyone can imagine. I hope you get dealt with satisfactorily.
    It is sad when a company allows their product quality to slip and erode whatever good reputation they enjoy, and have worked so hard to acquire. We in the U.S.A. are facing the same situation.
  • select-fireselect-fire Member Posts: 69,529 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by Sam06
    quote:Originally posted by 1911a1-fan
    i would take a serious look at your index finger too [;)]


    [:0]

    I would tell Taurus to keep the POS too.

    Not trying to gouge you but even when a gun is left out and loaded I think it should be in a holster especially in a truck console where stuff is shifting around. A good holster keeps anything from touching the bang switch.

    Another Piece of advice, and it free, if you are going to leave a gun loaded in your truck console go with a revolver in a holster. Many less things to go wrong. Taurus makes an OK revolver if you like that brand.



    Shifting around? It is in the front compartment on top of a nice soft piece of cloth. Only thing in there with it is a leather wallet and a comb. Taurus firearms are warranted for life regardless if you buy one new.
  • M1A762M1A762 Member Posts: 3,426
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by Sam06
    quote:Originally posted by 1911a1-fan
    i would take a serious look at your index finger too [;)]


    [:0]

    I would tell Taurus to keep the POS too.

    Not trying to gouge you but even when a gun is left out and loaded I think it should be in a holster especially in a truck console where stuff is shifting around. A good holster keeps anything from touching the bang switch.

    Another Piece of advice, and it free, if you are going to leave a gun loaded in your truck console go with a revolver in a holster. Many less things to go wrong. Taurus makes an OK revolver if you like that brand.


    Solid advice. If you have to keep a handgun in the console, it would not take much effort to mount a holster for the pistol in the console somewhere accessible. Then you can keep the 1911 cocked and locked with no worries![:)]
  • montanajoemontanajoe Forums Admins, Member, Moderator Posts: 60,240 ******
    edited November -1
    Thanks for the update,Select. Please continue to update as this progresses.
  • remingtonoaksremingtonoaks Member Posts: 26,245 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I still say it WAS the ammo, not the pistol,
  • select-fireselect-fire Member Posts: 69,529 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by remingtonoaks
    I still say it WAS the ammo, not the pistol,



    Removed all MagTech ammo and contacted another ammo manufacturer for a possible answer.
  • 1911a1-fan1911a1-fan Member Posts: 51,193 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    yours


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  • select-fireselect-fire Member Posts: 69,529 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Gun is being mailed today. If my gun has a primer strike or they determine that, they will have to explain how that happened? Something must be amuck within the firearm. Reckon they will replace parts and send it back.
  • roswellnativeroswellnative Member Posts: 10,195 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    My opinion. A Sa is great for the range... but just not the one to be in my truck glovebox. 1 just as this case shows, in stable platform, and if i did use it 2 I wouldnt want a self defense claim and a prosecuting atty to show tricked out and slicked out aforementioned sa as exhibit A.

    Just get a old j frame or even a Da only pistol...and that way when you go pistolwhip the rent out of somebody...you dont shoot up the glove box.

    Ros
    Although always described as a cowboy, Roswellnative generally acts as a righter of wrongs or bodyguard of some sort, where he excels thanks to his resourcefulness and incredible gun prowesses.
  • BrookwoodBrookwood Member, Moderator Posts: 13,768 ******
    edited November -1
    Skid marks on a primer kind of like skid marks in your drawers!

    I do not have an answer for what I have read about the glove box discharge.

    I just hope that you will make this as much of a learning experience as I have.
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