If I were a betting man I would not want to be betting against the MA NES member base in terms of saying that someone here hasn't owned, handled or fired a Taurus 1911, or other Taurus products. While the chances someone in MA owning one is lower, it's not outside of the realm of possibility.
-Mike
I indicated in my post that it was not outside the realm of possibility when I suggested that someone could move into the state with a Taurus 1911 and then sell it. There is no doubt that has happened. It's also true that there is a quantity of used Taurus products around the Great Commonwealth, however we are talking about a specific model in the Taurus line.
There was a time in the not so distant past when Smith and Wesson Model 66 was a piece of junk, but that didn't mean that they weren't producing other models that weren't junk.
Look, I know what Carl said about Taurus, it's even posted on the Four Seasons website, that's one dealer's opinion, and now that opinion is ten years old.
I know what Taurus was like in the 1960's and 1970's, they produced very rough copies of S&W K frame revolvers. Their fortunes changed when they got a contract to make Beretta 92's under license for the Brazilian government. There was even a brief period of time when the Bangor Punta Corp, the then owner of S&W also owned Taurus and apparently there was some technology transfer between S&W and Taurus, although the details of this remain somewhat murky. After the Bangor Punta period, a gentleman by the name of Dr. Carlos Murgel (sp?) took over Taurus and they began producing much better firearms. I haven't tracked Taurus for a long time, and my experience with their firearms was /has been limited to what I stated in a previous post.
One gentleman wrote that he did have experience with a Tauras 1911 and there were cracks in it, that's valuable information, but that is also only one example of the product. I certainly would factor that experience in if I were selecting a brand to purchase, however.
Mark L.
So Mike, let's hear from those Massachusetts shooters that have either fired or owned a 1911 Taurus. I'm waiting to read a post
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