osteodoc08
Member
- Joined
- Jun 23, 2005
- Messages
- 1,261
OK guys, I've had the opportunity to put 500+ rounds through my 2009 Vintage Taurus M66 357 mag with 6" barrel in SS. 100 Remington 110 grainers, 100 Remington 125 grainers in 357 mag. The other 300+ have been WWB 130gr 38 special stuff. That's about $200 in ammo lately, wow!
The Good:
When the barrel is clean, it is scary accurate. It can shoot better than I can. I have shot it up to 25 yards for accuracy. Off the bench, if I do my part, I can keep it under 2.5" groups all day with cheap ammo. Reloads are in the works. I expect to get this down to 1.5-2" with the right reloads.
When plinking out to 100 yards, I can scare the hell out of a soda bottle and usually hit it 1-2 times per cylinder. I noticed that for top accuracy it needs to be cleaned every 75-100 rounds or so.
I once shot it almost 200 rounds (mostly WWB) and the action started to get sticky and I had a hard time pulling the trigger back. I took it home and open it up to find unburned powder everywhere. Once cleaned up it worked better than new.
DA pull was long but smooth. SA was crisp with no creep. Just as good as my fathers Rugers but not as good as his S&W 57. The sights were dead on from the factory, no adjustments needed. The gun is still as tight as when I bought it. When compared to my fathers Rugers, the lock up is tighter on 6/7 cylinders and equal to that of the Ruger on the 7th. No spitting lead or anything like that.
The Bad:
The cylinder release loosened up early on. This was fixed with some loctite and an appropriately sized screw driver.
The Ugly:
Really cosmetic, but there is some tooling marks on the underside of the trigger gaurd that I did not notice at time of inspection of sale. No biggie. It is really small and almost unnoticable, but now that i know they are there, I see them every time.
So, i always ask myself, knowing what I know now, would I buy it again. Even though I would have like to have a S&W, the cost of diminishing return was too high. This is a functional gun and it satisfies what I bought it for...a beat around the woods gun. I'll keep it for now, if any problems, back to Taurus it goes, but so far so good.
I'll keep yall posted.
The Good:
When the barrel is clean, it is scary accurate. It can shoot better than I can. I have shot it up to 25 yards for accuracy. Off the bench, if I do my part, I can keep it under 2.5" groups all day with cheap ammo. Reloads are in the works. I expect to get this down to 1.5-2" with the right reloads.
When plinking out to 100 yards, I can scare the hell out of a soda bottle and usually hit it 1-2 times per cylinder. I noticed that for top accuracy it needs to be cleaned every 75-100 rounds or so.
I once shot it almost 200 rounds (mostly WWB) and the action started to get sticky and I had a hard time pulling the trigger back. I took it home and open it up to find unburned powder everywhere. Once cleaned up it worked better than new.
DA pull was long but smooth. SA was crisp with no creep. Just as good as my fathers Rugers but not as good as his S&W 57. The sights were dead on from the factory, no adjustments needed. The gun is still as tight as when I bought it. When compared to my fathers Rugers, the lock up is tighter on 6/7 cylinders and equal to that of the Ruger on the 7th. No spitting lead or anything like that.
The Bad:
The cylinder release loosened up early on. This was fixed with some loctite and an appropriately sized screw driver.
The Ugly:
Really cosmetic, but there is some tooling marks on the underside of the trigger gaurd that I did not notice at time of inspection of sale. No biggie. It is really small and almost unnoticable, but now that i know they are there, I see them every time.
So, i always ask myself, knowing what I know now, would I buy it again. Even though I would have like to have a S&W, the cost of diminishing return was too high. This is a functional gun and it satisfies what I bought it for...a beat around the woods gun. I'll keep it for now, if any problems, back to Taurus it goes, but so far so good.
I'll keep yall posted.
Attachments
Last edited:
