Taurus and pricing
No one pays MSRP, not even at a gun store do I see those prices posted. I hear a lot of crying about some Taurus models and people just can't seem to let that go. Like they say, have a good experience, tell 3 people, a bad one, tell everyone on the entire internet. In a defense role, this is pretty hard to forgive. Especially that revolver experience, pure dread.
But if your putting a gun into a defense role, it should have a minimum of 1000 rounds without a failure through it before it can be considered a "reliable" gun.
However, I like my PT145 and it works flawlessly with ~750 rounds thru it. My wife has a PT111, and already has 200 rounds through it. It FTE'd once on her, but I believe that it was her limp wrist, not sure. It was her first ever trip to the range shooting a pistol and was in the first two magazines thru the pistol with Magtech ammo. Did not happen to her on her second trip the the shooting range. 1 in 200+, that's less than 0.5% thus far, but admittedly, it is not the magic ZERO, but my pt145 is. Hopefully that percentage will only get smaller. Between both our pistols, thats something like 0.1%.
I'm gonna move up to one of the better 1911's eventually, but I see that just about every make or model has issues occasionally also and that some manufacturers (even high end ones) seem to just assemble the parts but not check function very well. I think there's some foundry making parts and they just etch or engrave their logos in the sides and assemble them, I'm not sure.
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