Abraxxas
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I've beenlooking for something smaller and less expensive than my 1911 to carry for a while now and decided I wanted a compact for whenever WIfinally gets out of the fog andpasses CCW bill.I ordered one of these and picked it up last week, it will be my first compact besides a small .25 and my first polymer gun. So far Im pretty impressed with the little gun, seems well built, comfortable in the hand, controls are easy to access and honestly I think it's a pretty good looking little gun.
I've heard all the Taurus stories over the years but I believe they've come a long ways. I've owned a Raging Bull .454 for about 10 years and absolutely love it, I did have a minor issue with it once, sent it in and received it back in 3 weeks with never an issue since. I found customer service helpful and friendly and I do like the lifetime warranty.
I ran a few hundred rounds through it this last weekend and everything has gotten noticably smoother.The trigger is nice with a clean break, the pull is a bit long and it breaks with the trigger close to the front of the grip but doesnt take long to get used to. It fed CCI Blazer 230gr FMJ's 100% reliably but did have a couple failures to feed using Federal Value Pack FMJ's. Overall it shoots very nicely, recoil is definately there being a .45 in such a small package but it is smooth and very manageable. The grouping improved significantly during the first 250 or so rounds and I feel it will continue to improve as the barrel breaks in. I found that the barrel had a rock hard coating of some sort of crud that appeared to be just a rough barrel at first glance. After my range outting some of it had come off of the rifling lands and there was shiny barrel underneath. Itultimately took me about 2 hours to get this all out of the barrel and am now left with a nice shiny bore, I am eager to see what a clean bore does for the grouping haha Still getting used to the straight 8 sights too.
Here are a few pics, so far Im very happy with this little thing!! The 10round group in the last photo wasfired from a bench at 50ft.
I've beenlooking for something smaller and less expensive than my 1911 to carry for a while now and decided I wanted a compact for whenever WIfinally gets out of the fog andpasses CCW bill.I ordered one of these and picked it up last week, it will be my first compact besides a small .25 and my first polymer gun. So far Im pretty impressed with the little gun, seems well built, comfortable in the hand, controls are easy to access and honestly I think it's a pretty good looking little gun.
I've heard all the Taurus stories over the years but I believe they've come a long ways. I've owned a Raging Bull .454 for about 10 years and absolutely love it, I did have a minor issue with it once, sent it in and received it back in 3 weeks with never an issue since. I found customer service helpful and friendly and I do like the lifetime warranty.
I ran a few hundred rounds through it this last weekend and everything has gotten noticably smoother.The trigger is nice with a clean break, the pull is a bit long and it breaks with the trigger close to the front of the grip but doesnt take long to get used to. It fed CCI Blazer 230gr FMJ's 100% reliably but did have a couple failures to feed using Federal Value Pack FMJ's. Overall it shoots very nicely, recoil is definately there being a .45 in such a small package but it is smooth and very manageable. The grouping improved significantly during the first 250 or so rounds and I feel it will continue to improve as the barrel breaks in. I found that the barrel had a rock hard coating of some sort of crud that appeared to be just a rough barrel at first glance. After my range outting some of it had come off of the rifling lands and there was shiny barrel underneath. Itultimately took me about 2 hours to get this all out of the barrel and am now left with a nice shiny bore, I am eager to see what a clean bore does for the grouping haha Still getting used to the straight 8 sights too.
Here are a few pics, so far Im very happy with this little thing!! The 10round group in the last photo wasfired from a bench at 50ft.