My recent and past Taurus experiences have forced me to make the decision to never buy another Taurus gun.
My first gun was a Taurus 83, in nickel. The nickel was done very well. The gun itself, not so well. The first six shots fired ok, but the gun spit lead very badly. It was super bad out of time. It's real problems were the front of the cylinder wasn't flat, and the rifling inside the barrel was totally messed up, it literally stopped about 2 inches into it, and then started again. The gunsmith at the local place I shot at was mystified how it could have even been done like that on purpose, let alone by mistake. The lead had to be pounded out of the barrel after every cylinder So, off to Taurus it went. I put on a note I stuck inside, "Barrel is defective, leads up extremely bad, has to be pounded out with a brass screwdriver!". I got the gun back about 5 weeks later, with the cylinder replaced and it didn't spit anymore. It had a new problem, light primer hits in DA mode. And the barrel wasn't replaced or fixed, it was full of lead and bullet jackets. I called them up and some guy picked up the phone and said that there was nothing wrong with the barrel at all. I laughed, and said, "Well, ask someone who can see to explain the problems it has!", and he said, "Send it back!", so I did, and a note was in the box, "Customer states barrel is defective" and under it, "Barrel is OK, within specs". I told several people who had seen the gun that and they all laughed. I got rid of it soon after.
A friend of mine had an 809 and I really liked it and his DID shoot great. So I bought one, giving Taurus another chance after all these years, and it was a disaster. It did all the usual FTF type stuff, and we didn't see anything obviously wrong, so I sent it in. It came back and they had polished the feed ramp and other than that, nothing I could see, and it still had problems. Was it better? Well, yes, but not much. I sent it back again, and it still was totally unreliable, even wet with oil it would have problems, dry it was a one shooter. I finally sold it to a friend who has so far failed to fix it and it's his "When I'm bored, I'll mess with it" project. I see deals on Taurus guns and I want to try again, but I think, "Nope, I'll buy something that works instead, like a Canik or one of the other Turkish guns".
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