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- From: kdlin@advtech.uswest.com (David Lin)
- Newsgroups: rec.guns
- Subject: Re: Beretta vs Taurus ?
- Message-ID: <199301280000.AA00358@cherokee.advtech.uswest.com>
- Date: 28 Jan 93 04:17:08 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan25.201605.3879@michael.apple.com> ems@michael.apple.com (E. Michael Smith) writes:
- #What about Beretta vs Taurus? They look to be the same design.
- #The Taurus looks to be well made (to the extent that can be seen
- #from the outside of the gun...).
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- They don't look the same to me at all. The finish is very different,
- especially in stainless steel. The trigger pull is not the same
- either. Grips are different too, among others.
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- #So how similar are they? Can you swap parts from a 92 to whatever
- #the Taurus equivalent is (like on real 1911-A1 clones) or are there
- #subtile manufacturing differences that make them quite different?
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- Slide, frame, and magazines are all different. I don't know about
- other parts.
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- #The local gun store asserts that Brazil nationalized a Beretta
- #plant and is basically building Berrettas on Beretta tooling
- #under a different name. Is this true?
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- That is what I heard also.
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- #(And did they start
- #cheapening the metals or quality of labor used ... or kept the same?)
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- I'll save it to more knowlegeable readers.
-
- David
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