Taurus PT 58

[HouseofPayne]

Hello...I have a Taurus PT 58 bought around 1991. I just started back to the range with my son recently and wanted to know if this gun is worth keeping due to the .380 shortage. I can't find this factory ammo anywhere in the last month.
I used it as a carry pistol 23 yrs ago and kept it, not sure if keeping it is worth it.
let me know what you think. thanks!

 

[Havok7416]

If you like the gun or it means something to you, then by all means keep it. .380 ammo has been widely available most places I have seen for the last few months at least. Obviously that depends on where you are, but it is out there and will be back in any event.

If it were me, I wouldn't get rid of the gun unless it had no further use to me.

 

[kokapelli]

380 ammo is starting appear all over the place on the internet.

Check out gunbot.com for 380 here.....

http://www.gunbot.net/ammo/pistol/380acp/

 

[bannockburn]

I'm finding .380 ammo at Walmart these days and not much in the way of 9mm., along with some limited quantities of .45 ACP. I would hang on to the Taurus 58.

 

[tommy.duncan]

I would keep it. I have bought about 600 rounds of 380 at wally world recently. The 380 ammo is getting easier to find.

 

[kokapelli]

I guess Obama doesn't need 380 for all of the agencies he is now arming like The Department of Agriculture, the Railroad Retirement Board, the Tennessee Valley Authority, the Office of Personnel Management, the Consumer Product Safety Commission, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the Education Department.
so 380 is becoming more available.

 

[MedWheeler]

I am also finding .380 not that hard to find. Limited availability at Wal-Mart (only one the three WM stores in my city ever seems to have it), but always around at Bass Pro Shops, and online.

 

[Old Dog]

I'd definitely keep it. Although the PT-58 is a pretty big platform for the cartridge, the version made in 1991 was rock-solid, all steel with no MIM parts. Its size makes it very soft-shooting for even the hottest .380 rounds, and when your pistol was made, Taurus was just coming into its own with its Beretta-styled autoloaders.

Presume yours has the nicely polished flats on the slide? The more discreet engraved versus laser-etched roll-marks? Frame-mounted 1911-style safety? Nice walnut grips?

Very good pistol for introducing new shooters to the sport. Don't listen to Taurus-bashers on the internet (they abound) -- your pistol, along with the 1990-1995 PT-92s and PT-99s, is a quality firearm.

 

[weregunner]

I've got three of them and they are fine guns in my opinion.

Finding ammo online is not that hard and you already have the www.gunbot.net link which is a good place to start.

http:/www.ammoseek.com is another good search engine for .380 ammo.

I use gunbot and ammo seek both for most of my ammo finding.