Need Taurus Revolver ID/Parts Info

[perdurabo93]

I recently bought an old Taurus revolver from Century (a police buyback, I assume), which they advertised as a model 66. When I got it, it didn't look like any Taurus 66 I had ever seen before. It was definitely a medium frame Taurus .357 but there were no model markings anywhere on the revolver I could see, only the Taurus logo and a caliber designation on the barrel. It had fixed sights, not adjustable and the standard wood grips. It had a much shorter serial number (4-digit, starting with "55") than any other Taurus revolver I had seen and when I called Taurus to ask them to ID the revolver they told me they had no such serial number in their database and if its a very old revolver they wouldn't be able to help anyway! I suppose its likely to be a model 65 since it has fixed sights, but it has other oddball things like ridges/flutes inside the cylinder hollows and along the top that Ive never seen in any model of Taurus revolver.

I'll upload some not-so-good photos of the revolver to this post... can anyone tell me what I might have exactly? Most importantly I need to determine this with certainty because the revolver came with a hammer that had been bobbed/filed off and I would prefer a full standard spur hammer on it. Where might I be able to find a replacement hammer for this revolver other than Numrich, Jack First, or Bobs Gun Shop in AR? Any online Taurus parts dealers who are easier to deal with than those I just mentioned? BTW, I can't send it back since Century made me a deal to keep it rather than go through the hassle of shipping it back to them.

Thanks in advance

 

[JohnBT]

Spesco Corp. in Atlanta used to import the Taurus Falcon guns that had pinned barrels and serrated everything on them, but the ones I've seen were marked Falcon and Spesco. Still, those serrations are quite distinctive.

John