Hi
I'm new to shooting.
No family heritage of shooting.
No shooting friends.
Coming in cold but trying to read as much as possible so I don't hurt myself or someone else. I just purchases a Taurus 605 SA/DA SS from a store in California. I'm about halfway through the 10 day waiting period. The salesman told me that the idea behind this law was to let people WHO NEEDED A GUN NOW to have a few days to cool down and think about it.
So I'm trying to relax. ha ha
Anyway, I'm reading & reading and have some specific questions about the gun that I purchased. I had originally settled on a Smith 642 but the price of the Taurus and the .357 ammo option interested me. Ok...mostly the price.
Taurus $400, Smith was $500. And like I said, I'm new to this and may lose interest so why pay more. From the forums there seems to be a reverence for Smith and some past problems with Taurus. But also many have claimed that Taurus problems have been worked out.
Ok
My questions:
Regarding the Taurus 605 .357 SA/DA
Taurus seems to have a good reputation lately but
problems that do seem to reoccur sparingly in the forums regarding this gun are:
Things falling off or coming lose like the cylinder latch or ejector rod.
Should I just go ahead and loctite these with loctite blue from the start?
The other problem that seems to come up -in forums - are light strike misfires. There are many post of replacing springs - mostly toward a lighter Wolff spring. Any many posts of people warning not to do this for just the above reason.
There are also post of people putting a heavier spring in to solve the whole possibility of the problem happening. This would of course make the trigger harder to pull. This seems more sensible to me as I'm really getting this for self protection and not target shooting. A harder trigger pull seems safer anyway.
One more question
I have read various posts on DRY FIRING
Some say No
Some say it helps break in the gun, but use snap caps to prevent damage.
So Dry Firing or No Dry firing?
Any thoughts about this or about this gun.
Or being a new shooter and this gun as a first purchase.
Etc etc
Thanks
Tim
I'm new to shooting.
No family heritage of shooting.
No shooting friends.
Coming in cold but trying to read as much as possible so I don't hurt myself or someone else. I just purchases a Taurus 605 SA/DA SS from a store in California. I'm about halfway through the 10 day waiting period. The salesman told me that the idea behind this law was to let people WHO NEEDED A GUN NOW to have a few days to cool down and think about it.
So I'm trying to relax. ha ha
Anyway, I'm reading & reading and have some specific questions about the gun that I purchased. I had originally settled on a Smith 642 but the price of the Taurus and the .357 ammo option interested me. Ok...mostly the price.
Taurus $400, Smith was $500. And like I said, I'm new to this and may lose interest so why pay more. From the forums there seems to be a reverence for Smith and some past problems with Taurus. But also many have claimed that Taurus problems have been worked out.
Ok
My questions:
Regarding the Taurus 605 .357 SA/DA
Taurus seems to have a good reputation lately but
problems that do seem to reoccur sparingly in the forums regarding this gun are:
Things falling off or coming lose like the cylinder latch or ejector rod.
Should I just go ahead and loctite these with loctite blue from the start?
The other problem that seems to come up -in forums - are light strike misfires. There are many post of replacing springs - mostly toward a lighter Wolff spring. Any many posts of people warning not to do this for just the above reason.
There are also post of people putting a heavier spring in to solve the whole possibility of the problem happening. This would of course make the trigger harder to pull. This seems more sensible to me as I'm really getting this for self protection and not target shooting. A harder trigger pull seems safer anyway.
One more question
I have read various posts on DRY FIRING
Some say No
Some say it helps break in the gun, but use snap caps to prevent damage.
So Dry Firing or No Dry firing?
Any thoughts about this or about this gun.
Or being a new shooter and this gun as a first purchase.
Etc etc
Thanks
Tim