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- From: towle@vssteg.enet.dec.com (Clark Towle Gunsmith)
- Newsgroups: rec.guns
- Subject: Re: Taurus: soft steels & gunsmithing problems?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec21.155424.16281@engage.pko.dec.com>
- Date: 21 Dec 92 23:59:49 GMT
- Sender: magnum@mimsy.umd.edu
- Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
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- Approved: gun-control@cs.umd.edu
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- In article <1h0e2tINNeke@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu>, bz269@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (James D. Del Vecchio) writes...
- #
- # Just back from my favorite gun shop, Kesserlings, in Alger
- #Wa. I was looking at two guns, a stainless S&W .38 spl model 64,
- #$225 used, and a Taurus .38 spl 85CH stainless, $195, also used. The
- #sales guy said (before I even mentioned the S&W), that Taurus uses soft
- #steels, and that their model 85, and all their guns, was frequently in
- #the shop because of damage. Disproportionately more frequently than
- #the S&W .38s.
- #
- # Any gunsmiths out there able to comment on this?
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- In my experience Taurus uses steel that's just as good as what S&W uses.
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- I've sold many Taurus's, both autoloaders and wheel guns and have yet to have
- one come back on account of soft steel or parts breakage.
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- As I recall the only one I've ever seen a problem with was a used one a
- customer brought in that was an early issue PT99 that had a bad barrel lockup
- and Taurus put a whole new barrel and slide on at no charge. The gun had been
- used in one of the action shooting diciplines and had nearly 10K rounds of hot
- reloads through it before the barrel lugs began to get peened which caused
- premature unlocking and primer back out.
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