I'm no engineer and maybe that plastic was perfectly stress tested and I'm wrong but it just seemed to me another $3.00 or so would be better.Īlso one of my friends got a Charter Arms pug and he was estatic about it. There were two parts in it (but I don't remember what parts they were) that were regular plastic like a kids toy is made of and I remeber thinking for another $3.00 in parts this would be a nice gun. It was a filthy mess so I took it completely apart and cleaned the internals as well. I had a friend whose husband passed away and after a a year or so I cleaned his old charter arms (it was probably late 90's, not that old) for her.
I know Polymer is a plastic but it's a bit tougher then regular plastic.
nobody has shown that Charter uses polymer/plastic at all. The unreliable junk reputation of Taurus/Rossi/Braztech products is well deserved.2. My long winded point is, if Taurus/Rossi/Braztech allows a gun as basic as a single shot 410 to leave the factory without benefit of a simple quality control check using go/no go gauges, just imagine how up the pistols and revolvers leaving the factory likely are. Luckily I bought it at Academy and they took care of sending it back to Taurus/Rossi/Braztech for repair. Now I suspect that pistol was just a fluke since last year I bought a single shot Rossi Tuffy 410 as a snake gun and immediately discovered it had a ridiculously out of tolerance chamber rendering the shotgun incapable of ejecting a spent shell short of driving it out with a dowel rod. I bought a high polished stainless ported DAO Taurus 5 shot 357 mag revolver on the cheap a few years back and was impressed with the fit, finish, and smooth action which caused me to assume that Taurus/Rossi/Braztech had come up in the world of firearms. I agree almost 100% except expand the never buy list to any Taurus/Rossi/Braztech product. We’ll also later this week pull the sideplate on a comparable S&W revolver and get into the guts of a Ruger to show how it’s done. Tomorrow we’re going to look at part 2, where I’ll examine why Taurus’ various engineering choices make the guns suck so much. 38 Special revolver, it’s probably not going to shear off and completely tie up the gun, but it’s also not exactly something I want to see. So it’s not exactly what I’d call “sturdy.” In fact, it’s actually the sort of bit that’s very sensitive to good metallurgy, which isn’t something Taurus is known for. It’s anchored to this protrusion in the frame, and the anchor point is held in place by a pin that’s just pressed into the frame. I mentioned the rebound spring previously, but I want to sit on that for a moment. Most revolvers are kind of rough on the inside once you get their skirts off, but what really struck me about the lockwork on the Taurus was how haphazard everything appeared. It’s obviously very roughly finished, which isn’t particularly unusual. Moving on to other parts of the gun, we have the lockwork itself. Ruger uses a strut and coil spring system for their mainsprings, and I checked a reasonable sample of Ruger wheelies, none of which had bent struts. It had a nice little bow in it, which means that when you pulled the trigger, the spring was dragging on the side of the strut in a way that is…less than ideal. Now, I’m not an engineer, but I was somewhat surprised to find that the strut was bent when I took it out of the gun. Pulling the trigger compresses the spring, blah blah blah guns happen. The mainspring rides on this strut the round end of the strut goes into a small slot on the back of the hammer. Let’s first look at the mainspring strut, which is, as the kids say, “kind of important.” This was not a good idea for my sanity, as I was greeted with a carnival of horrors and engineering decisions that make basically no sense. Being familiar enough with Ruger and S&W revolvers to perform basic action work and armorer level tasks, I decided to pull the sideplate off the Taurus. When I first got the gun, the best way to describe the trigger pull was like pulling a rusty pipe over a field of gravel.
This is about as close to the concept of “revolver, blue 6-shot” as you can get without being the preferable S&W Model 10 but what I wanted to do was really explain to shooters why if you’re looking for a defensive wheelgun, your search should proceed alphabetically, and never go further than the “S” section. In order to create a fair test, I decided to buy, with actual cash money, a Taurus 82 revolver. I get accused of being a gun snob pretty frequently.
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