Taurus Slim

[Ghostrider_23]

What are your thoughts on the Taurus SLIM?

How does it shoot?

What the recoil like?

Have you had any issues with it?

WOuld you buy one?

 

[gofastman]

one of the best guns I have ever shot! I'm so glad I traded my PF9 for it.
-good (but strange) trigger
-Amazingly comfortable to shoot for a gun of its size, very similar recoil to a Glock 26

1 failure to feed when I first got it, otherwise it has been 100% with all the different ammo I have fed it, including CCI shotshels (yes it does cycle them )

Do yourself a BIG favor and clean the hell out of it when you bring it home, I'm talking letting it sit in non corrosive degreaser for 2-3 days or hosing it down with 2 or more cans of non chlorinated brake cleaner.
they come packed full of this super nasty grease from the factory and if you don't clean it it will give you problems, don't for get to clean the mags too!

most of them shoot low from the factory, just fyi

 

[milq]

My experience wasn't as favorable. I picked one up earlier this summer and it FTE 1 out of every 3 or 4 rounds and one mag wouldn't stay in the gun. Before firing I cleaned thoroughly and then I ran 200 through it, the FTE didn't improve.

Before sending it back, I asked the dealer if he had any similar reports and he had given one to his GF for her b-day and it had similar issues. He offered full value on a trade as he was also displeased, I took the offer. He tells me that mine came back with a new barrel, extractor and magazine and the other got a new extractor.

I really liked the way it handled for such a small gun and recoil was brisk but manageable...when it functioned. I'm not a Taurus hater or anything, i have a revolver that has been great, I just couldn't trust the Slim. The shop I purchased from sells a lot of Taurus and recommends them as a good value and I tend to agree but seems their QC is all over the place sometimes.

 

[harmon rabb]

What are your thoughts on the Taurus SLIM?

How does it shoot?

What the recoil like?

Have you had any issues with it?

WOuld you buy one?

I used to own the 709 slim and a PF-9; I now only own the Taurus. What's that tell you? Great design, very comfortable to carry.

Shoots great. Excellent (although unique) trigger. So much better than the PF-9's trigger the difference is laughable. Recoil is handled much better than the PF-9 as well; it soaks it up almost as well as a full size.

I have had zero issues. Well, one time I dropped a mag in the dirt, wiped it off, slapped it in the gun, and fired off a few rounds. After 2-3 rounds, the mag follower got stuck in the mag due to the dirt, so there were no more rounds to feed. While I haven't gone and done a dirt test with my other guns, I suspect that most of them wouldn't have encountered this problem. I guess the mag spring is pretty weak.

I would absolutely buy another. It's completely comfortable to fire, even with +p, and once you get used to the odd trigger, it's great. On the topic of the trigger, I say it's odd because it has two distinct stages. The first stage is about 95% of the trigger pull, and it has virtually no resistance through that entire stage (I'd be surprised if it takes 1lb to pull it through that stage). The second stage has a resistance of maybe 4-5lbs, and there is very little movement through it, the trigger just breaks once you apply enough pressure.

Well, there's my $.02

 

[migkillertwo]

one of the best guns I have ever shot! I'm so glad I traded my PF9 for it.
-good (but strange) trigger
-Amazingly comfortable to shoot for a gun of its size, very similar recoil to a Glock 26

1 failure to feed when I first got it, otherwise it has been 100% with all the different ammo I have fed it, including CCI shotshels (yes it does cycle them )

Do yourself a BIG favor and clean the hell out of it when you bring it home, I'm talking letting it sit in non corrosive degreaser for 2-3 days or hosing it down with 2 or more cans of non chlorinated brake cleaner.
they come packed full of this super nasty grease from the factory and if you don't clean it it will give you problems, don't for get to clean the mags too!

most of them shoot low from the factory, just fyi

about that degreaser: if it is non-corrosive, will it corrode plastic? Or can I just open the action and just set it in there for a few days?

 

[AJChenMPH]

I had a PT-709 that I traded for a PT-738 TCP.

I had no failures with my 709 -- it had been a replacement gun for a LEO whose original 709 went kaboom. He sold it to me unfired/NIB. It was accurate enough (it did shoot a tad low out of the box) and I was able to conceal it very easily by carrying it IWB (it was a tad tough to pocket carry). Recoil was perfectly manageable.

My two biggest issues were:

1. The trigger guard would slap my index finger something fierce. I wound up having to use a shooting glove on the range.

2. The grip just didn't feel quite right -- I could never get completely comfortable gripping it. But that's the just way my hand is structured.

I'd buy one again (or I'd have kept my original one) if it weren't for those two issues.

 

[FIVETWOSEVEN]

Shot one magazine through one once. Felt pretty rectanglar in my hand at first but was a joy to shoot. I might end up getting one someday, I want a Mak more though.

 

[gofastman]

about that degreaser: if it is non-corrosive, will it corrode plastic? Or can I just open the action and just set it in there for a few days?

I use this stuff:
http://www.simplegreen.com/products_pro_hd.php
You get it at Home Depot.
Is approved by Boeing and Pratt & Whitney for A&P clean up, it sure as heck wont hurt anything on a gun. Don't use that green crap they sell .

I just field striped the thing and threw it in my sonic cleaner for a couple days, I'm sure a bucket of it at the proper dilution would accomplish the same thing.

 

[MikePaiN]

The PT709 Slim is my EDC.
The Slim was a great shooter from day one and reliable as hell(or it wouldn't be my EDC ) Over the last year and it has held up to the rigors of EDC, I don't see the slightest finish wear.

For ha-ha's and because my full size PT92 is up for sale, I shot the Slim in a practical shooting match last week....I hung right in there with the little thing and took 3rd place

 

[harmon rabb]

For ha-ha's and because my full size PT92 is up for sale, I shot the Slim in a practical shooting match last week....I hung right in there with the little thing and took 3rd place

Shows what you get when a manufacturer actually sees fit to put a good trigger on a small gun. Why it took Taurus, of all companies, to figure this out, nobody knows.

 

[Evild]

Shot my new little Taurus 709 today. All I have to say is wow, great fighting gun. I put 145 rounds through it 115 gain from Sellier and Beliot, and Winchester, some Federal 147 grain hydrashocks ans some 124 grain Federal rounds. Never skipped a beat. It shot about 3 inches low at 15 yards when using standard sighting (ie front and back sites, pumpkin on a post) so head shots on a b27 target ended up being throat shots and center of chest came out to diaphragm area. BUT when i went to front site only it was spot on! I love this gun, only 350 more rounds with out a miss and i will feel comfortable carrying it.
2 complaints, the crappy little screwdriver thing that comes with it sucks (i forgot a real screw driver) and as others have stated, its a very uneasy feeling taking it apart, not at all like my G17 as far as ease/smoothness.