sammitysam
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- Aug 12, 2009
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Hello all, this is my first post here, I've been following this forum for the last six months or so. I decided to pick up a Taurus 709 Slim last week as another option for carry. (Have a ruger LCP just for that purpose but I was wanting something with a little more than .380 ballistics in a similiarly thin package) Anyhow, first impressions were great, fit/finish of the gun seems pretty nice, feels good in the hand, reasonable sights, my only complaint was that it points like a glock
Until I got to the range yesterday that is. First fifty rounds went off without a hitch, it was shooting about 3 inch groups at 15 yards which is about all you're gonna get out of me anyhow lol. During the next fifty rounds I had 3 FTF with the gun getting the first round about half chambered. Still cannot figure out why it was doing this. The gun also decided to stop locking back when empty, so I'm not getting a round in when loading and getting nothing but a click(or clickS thannks to taurus's "second-strike") when empty! To top it off, the mags also would not drop free when the gun was shot empty and unable to lock back, I actually had to use two hands to press the release with one and actually PRY the mag out with the other.
This is my first Taurus purchase, and I have never had so many problems with a firearm. I WANT to like this gun! So far its been proving very unreliable.
Edit- just went to clean it and I'm seeing some serious stress marks/gouges in the breech face... I think I got hosed
I'm trying to figure out how to attach an image of the breech
Until I got to the range yesterday that is. First fifty rounds went off without a hitch, it was shooting about 3 inch groups at 15 yards which is about all you're gonna get out of me anyhow lol. During the next fifty rounds I had 3 FTF with the gun getting the first round about half chambered. Still cannot figure out why it was doing this. The gun also decided to stop locking back when empty, so I'm not getting a round in when loading and getting nothing but a click(or clickS thannks to taurus's "second-strike") when empty! To top it off, the mags also would not drop free when the gun was shot empty and unable to lock back, I actually had to use two hands to press the release with one and actually PRY the mag out with the other.
This is my first Taurus purchase, and I have never had so many problems with a firearm. I WANT to like this gun! So far its been proving very unreliable.
Edit- just went to clean it and I'm seeing some serious stress marks/gouges in the breech face... I think I got hosed
I'm trying to figure out how to attach an image of the breech