I hate to admit, the spectrum is a cool looking gun. I may buy one just cause it's different. Like the OPs curve, I give Taurus major credit for being innovative in a market over run with more of the same. They really put out some funky guns and at a fair price.$125 taurus spectrum from kygunco, free shipping, $10 ffl transfer fee, added $10 hogue beavertail grip. i know that some spectrums are problems, but mine runs well on simple, brass cased, fmj ball ammo after a 200 round breakin and cleaning. best $145 i’ve ever spent on a handgun.
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I got an SD9VE on the cheap too. In retrospect, I should have kept it. I have yet to ever pick up a plastic pistol that felt so immediately good in my hand. It shot anything and shot it well, too. A pal needed an inexpensive, good, nine and I let it pass on in part of not wanting to mag-up to a new gun.I bought a very clean S&W SD9VE for $160 and the treaded it straight up for a Glock 19 Gen3.
It’s the one on the bottom.
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Reminds me of one I seriously lucked-out with.I have a couple budget handguns: a Norinco TT-Olympia .22L.R. pistol and a Weihrauch Target Trophy .22L.R. revolver. Both super accurate shooters. Both a little picky about the ammo they like but I don't care since they shoot so good.
I had the chance to handle one of these, it seems like a real lot of pistol for not a lot of money. I think the one I was toying with was around $185 or so. I thought it looked sharp!$125 taurus spectrum from kygunco, free shipping, $10 ffl transfer fee, added $10 hogue beavertail grip. i know that some spectrums are problems, but mine runs well on simple, brass cased, fmj ball ammo after a 200 round breakin and cleaning. best $145 i’ve ever spent on a handgun.
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Nice TT you have.Reminds me of one I seriously lucked-out with.
I had a friend who was absolutely nuts for Soviet pew-poohers and handguns in particular. Ever since we were privates in the Army and he bought his first TT he had been extolling the virtues of the design and using it as a spring-board to ridicule other designs - anything that I own in particular.
In any case, along comes Norinco and not any old Norinco but the safety-added, big grip model to get around import bans.
I think it said *SPORT* on the box.
OF COURSE... I had to IMMEDIATELY point out that FINALLY a *decent* Tokarev had been produced to at last satisfy refined shooters such as myself!
Then, as those in the know - know, aside from the ridiculous safety, it's a damn fine pistol.
So; "luck out", you ask?
Oh hell yes. These were dirt cheap and shoot waaaaaaaay better than they should and I got to tweak my pal *Kevin Hognose O'Brien" (to me, he will always and only be; O'B) to boot..... RIP you weird little man!
Todd.
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I have an absolutely beautifully operating AMT .45 backUp. I bought it from a Fed who used it for quite some time as his back-up after having it tweaked a bit - as they ALL seem to need.
I bought it mostly on the boondoggle aspect of having it as the mini-gat to my maxi-gat AMT Haardballer Long-Slide.
Turned out to be so; reliable, accurate (yes, you read that correctly) and smooth to carry that I carried it for years after and long after *better*, lighter were available.
Our LCP and Bersa Thunder were backed-into with trepidation too but ended up being outstanding carry pieces.
Todd.
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I should have shown the other side too. It's a Norinco 213 9mm. But the pistol you interpreted it as intrigues me.Nice TT you have.
I must specify that in my case it is a copy of the famous Walther Olympia and not a copy of the Tokarev (even if nice .22L.R. Tokarevs exist). In the case of my Norinco Olympia, TT stands probably for Target Trophy. In any case, I liked the story you told and your gun.
Isn't that off-puting? There was once a grip panel to partially cover it but it worked against the concealability of the pistol as it would often curve and snag.What up with the cutout on the frame showing the trigger linkage?
Zastava was still selling these in stainless brand new for 369 up until the panic cleaned them out.Reminds me of one I seriously lucked-out with.
I had a friend who was absolutely nuts for Soviet pew-poohers and handguns in particular. Ever since we were privates in the Army and he bought his first TT he had been extolling the virtues of the design and using it as a spring-board to ridicule other designs - anything that I own in particular.
In any case, along comes Norinco and not any old Norinco but the safety-added, big grip model to get around import bans.
I think it said *SPORT* on the box.
OF COURSE... I had to IMMEDIATELY point out that FINALLY a *decent* Tokarev had been produced to at last satisfy refined shooters such as myself!
Then, as those in the know - know, aside from the ridiculous safety, it's a damn fine pistol.
So; "luck out", you ask?
Oh hell yes. These were dirt cheap and shoot waaaaaaaay better than they should and I got to tweak my pal *Kevin Hognose O'Brien" (to me, he will always and only be; O'B) to boot..... RIP you weird little man!
Todd.
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Funny you mention that.Zastava was still selling these in stainless brand new for 369 up until the panic cleaned them out.
Makes me think of the cheap VZ52s I used to buy when they presented themselves. Just too inexpensive to not buy as was the ammo.Hard to beat the surplus Beretta 81s that were going for less than $200 in terms of quality and low price.