rockstar.esq
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I have a Taurus B446 which is a blued 6" .44mag with a ported barrel and expansion chamber. The porting works well but the ports hit the front sight. This is most undesireable when shooting lead ammo since the front sight gets completely covered in molten lead bits, bullet lube, and general fouling. When I shoot jacketed ammo, the front sight remains clean and pleasant for almost 100 rounds. I have also found that Winchester white box ammo brass will expand in my chambers to the extent that they are hard to extract. Actually, thruth be told they get so hard to extract it actually hurts my hand pressing on the ejector! The gun is very accurate and the recoil is quite managable due to well designed stocks. I learned a valueable lesson regarding dry firing with this gun as the firing pin return spring broke on it causing all sorts of problems! Taurus did fix it free of charge ( along with aligning the crane ). I have a snub .44spl with a bobbed hammer that gave me fits because it had light pin strikes , after two trips to Taurus it now works without arguement. For what it's worth, I paid for the shipping the first time and when I called to tell them it still wasn't fixed, they made arrangements to have it shipped on their tab. So far two of the three Taurus firearms I own have needed to go back to the factory. Oddly, the only other
Taurus firearm I own is a PT-92 and it has run like a top for over 1.5k rounds through it! All in all, I think the reduced price and product support make up for the majority of my experience. That being said, the .44spl was my CCW and having to make do for the two months it was in the shop really wasn't cool. For range guns, I'd buy without hesitation but I can't bring myself to trust the .44 spl until it's run for a while sans problems.
Taurus firearm I own is a PT-92 and it has run like a top for over 1.5k rounds through it! All in all, I think the reduced price and product support make up for the majority of my experience. That being said, the .44spl was my CCW and having to make do for the two months it was in the shop really wasn't cool. For range guns, I'd buy without hesitation but I can't bring myself to trust the .44 spl until it's run for a while sans problems.