As Fuff said, it happens to Rugers too. First shot out of a used Redhawk.
Hmmm..I wonder if the Taurus bashers will now be Ruger bashers.....
As Fuff said, it happens to Rugers too. First shot out of a used Redhawk.
lol. No troll here. I'm just very new to handguns, and have had no reason to even know this forum existed. I bought my first handgun a couple of weeks ago (a S&W model 642) and bought a Kimber Ultra Crimson Carry II shortly after that.No pictures, five posts.
You guys just bought into the insights of a TROLL.
99 out of 100 times, when a gun blows up, there is more to the story than the owner is wanting to tell.
LOL Now that right there is funny.I must respectfully disagree, escpecially since I own a Taurus Judge. NOTHING from a Judge will go STRAIGHT at the target you are shooting at.
The newest model Judge that can chamber 3" .410
shells is the cover girl for the January 2009 issue of "The American Rifleman" one of the NRA's monthly magazines. This is the second time they've done a review and both articles are generally positive.
They freely acknowledge that their test accuracy even at short combat ranges of 3, 5, 7, and 9 yards wasn't great, the writer said that he felt that a centered hit by five 000 buck pellets totalling 350 grains at some 800 fps would be devastating as a defensive measure.
The author concludes that the Judge is the most versatile combat revolver since the civil war LeMat, a black powder revolver that had a shotgun barrel under it's pistol barrel.
Unless I missed it there is no mention of failures. Now I ask you, would the NRA view it through rose colored glasses? Weight of opinion heavied by advertizing dollars?
Yeah, that's interesting. My Judge, filled with 000 buckshot, weighs less than my empty S&W 625JM. Kind of surprised me. Since I have gotten the weapon back with a new barrel, I have fired a lot of rounds through it, from #6 birdshot to 300g Colt rounds, to 000 buckshot and I am impressed with it, and I enjoy shooting it. It is now my 'beside the bed' revolver, and once spring rolls back around, it'll be my work gun when I'm working around my property.The Judge "is what it is", and what it is is a -short range defensive weapon-. It's not meant to be used at 25 yards ... more like 25 feet (which I believe is still more than twice the distance of most SD encounters involving pistols). It also isn't "pretty", and the 3" chamber version is even less so.
That said, my Judge ultralite loaded with 5 rounds of 00 buck weighs less than my Glock 26. Either out my car window, or at "across the room" distances (at least in my house anyway) that 00 buck is going to put you in a world of hurt ... and there is no way I'm going to miss you with all three of them (I only have the 2 1/2 in chamber, 3 balls of buckshot per round).
I haven't shot that much 45 Colt from it ... but the first 5 rounds I did shoot put down 5 8" steel plates at 15 yards with 5 shots. That's accurate enough for me.
It's a "niche" gun, for sure. But it fills that niche quite well. I'll keep mine, thank you.
No pictures, five posts.
You guys just bought into the insights of a TROLL.
99 out of 100 times, when a gun blows up, there is more to the story than the owner is wanting to tell.
Well, Les, I now have 57 posts, does that make me less of a troll? PM me and I'll give you my cell phone and we can talk about it. I can also give you the name and number of the gun shop I took it back to about 30 minutes after I bought it, along with the .410 #6 birdshot shotgun shell that I shot which caused the barrel to blow off.More often than not, when any machine blows up, there's more to the story than the operator who blew it up wants to tell. Shirking responsibility is part of our culture now.
I'm no devotee to Taurus, but I also think claims of a catastrophic malfunction should come with some evidence. I own two Judges (one steel, one Ultralite) and owned another Taurus .38 revolver in the past. All function(ed) as advertised.
Les
I bought the gun. Took it home. Went out to the backyard. Loaded it with the .410 2.5" #6 birdshot I had bought along with it. Took one (1) shot and the barrel blew off. No lie. Nothing more to tell, and I'm not trying to shirk anything.
Yeah, but a photo from someone you don't know won't tell you a whole lot either, unless you decide to believe the person who posts the photo. I have a sneaking suspicion that I could've posted 20 photos and some folks are going to remain suspicious that 'the whole story' wasn't told or something. That's fine. A healthy skepticism is not a bad trait to have, anyway, and I'd like to think that's a trait I possess as well.I'll take your word for it, PcolaDawg. No disrespect intended, but if I had a new gun blow the barrel off, I'd sure as hell take a photo of it.
I'm not sure if this is directed at me but, if it is, I have no idea what you mean by 'Smartgun fiasco'. If it's not directed at me, then nevermind.Still waiting to hear about the Smartgun fiasco.