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Both a 1911 & a 99 worked fine. An older revolver shaved lead & 2 newer revolvers had burrs or metal shaving inside. I prefer Rossi for cost effective wheel guns.
Taurus used to have a Lifetime Warranty of the gun that could be passed on to all future owners. That Warranty went away when Taurus lost the lawsuit over their semi-auto handguns firing by being shaken.
Taurus had no other choice but to up their quality control and released their G2 pistols. Those seemed to run well for a number of rounds. Then the mag release would fall out of the gun. There look to be some fixes on that problem on youtube.
Supposedly the G3 pistol incorporated those fixes.
If looking for a sub $300 handgun, I recommend a Palmetto State Armory Dagger which is a copy of the Glock 19. It uses Glock mags and Glock triggers can be dropped into the frame. The Dagger is made in the USA and I have one.
That's worked for me so far. However, I was tempted by a Taurus G2C, years ago after reading lots of positive reviews on them. I bought one off the auction side and then contacted the seller to see if he would sell me something else in it's place. I wound up with a Ruger LC9s Pro. The Ruger is part or my regular carry rotation now.
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Both a 1911 & a 99 worked fine. An older revolver shaved lead & 2 newer revolvers had burrs or metal shaving inside. I prefer Rossi for cost effective wheel guns.
Taurus used to have a Lifetime Warranty of the gun that could be passed on to all future owners. That Warranty went away when Taurus lost the lawsuit over their semi-auto handguns firing by being shaken.
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Taurus had no other choice but to up their quality control and released their G2 pistols. Those seemed to run well for a number of rounds. Then the mag release would fall out of the gun. There look to be some fixes on that problem on youtube.
Supposedly the G3 pistol incorporated those fixes.
If looking for a sub $300 handgun, I recommend a Palmetto State Armory Dagger which is a copy of the Glock 19. It uses Glock mags and Glock triggers can be dropped into the frame. The Dagger is made in the USA and I have one.
"There look to be some fixes on that problem on youtube."
Cheapest fix is not to buy one Drobs.
That's worked for me so far. However, I was tempted by a Taurus G2C, years ago after reading lots of positive reviews on them. I bought one off the auction side and then contacted the seller to see if he would sell me something else in it's place. I wound up with a Ruger LC9s Pro. The Ruger is part or my regular carry rotation now.
I spotted a 6" blue .44 spl. last year. It appears to be a great S+W and performs like one too. Awesome gun. Its short one round thou
If you must buy a Taurus may I suggest;