I usually do not go posting my new toys, but I was pleasantly suprised and wanted to show people.
I was looking for a 1911 for the NSCC this year and I ahd seen the Taurus on a website for $883 with rubber grips. I decided to wait until after Christmas and see what happened to prices; I am glad I did. I was looking around and I found a sale at SFRC on the Tarus with Bull's head grips for a fair amount less than the other guy. I thought what the h**l and snapped one up.
It showed up in the mail today and I was suprised form the start. First thing is that there was a fairly nice HARD case with formed foam in the packing box; my Shadow came in a box made out of about 5 layers of celophane that started falling apart after I took it out of the cardboard. When I opend the box, there were two mags that seem as good as the Colt mags that a friend has, a bushing wrench, a bore brush, the tigger keys, the gun itself, AND the extra rubber Taurus grips.
Here is a photo:
I field stripped it (after finding the exact spot to pull the slide stop out
), cleaned the oil out of it, and took a look. The machining seems as good as my Shadow. The trigger is slightly gritty, but so was my Shadow, so I expect it will clean up after a few hundred rounds. The Taurus site said they have Heinie Straight 8 sights on it, but it had a set of Novak 3 dots on it instead; it matches the sight picture I installed on my Shadow so I am happy about this.
We will have to see what I think after 500 rounds down the tube to break it in; so far I am impressed.
Jan. 30:
I finally got it out to the range. I wanted to just run some ammo trhough it to make sure it funactioned properly. I had one time out of 70 rounds where it failed to go into battery; the round chambered, but the slide did not go into battery. It was fairly cold and I had olid the snot out of it; this would not be the first time oil has thickened up on the slide rails and buggered it up.
There was a chunk of 2 ply 2x4 at the range; I wanted this for smashing blocks at the NSCC this year (if my infant daughter and wife do not have plans for those two vacation days
). I fired one round at it and missed; my buddy told me the shot went right (I am a lefty and not suprised). Next shot hit dead center sending it in 4 different directions . I think that will work.
I was looking for a 1911 for the NSCC this year and I ahd seen the Taurus on a website for $883 with rubber grips. I decided to wait until after Christmas and see what happened to prices; I am glad I did. I was looking around and I found a sale at SFRC on the Tarus with Bull's head grips for a fair amount less than the other guy. I thought what the h**l and snapped one up.
It showed up in the mail today and I was suprised form the start. First thing is that there was a fairly nice HARD case with formed foam in the packing box; my Shadow came in a box made out of about 5 layers of celophane that started falling apart after I took it out of the cardboard. When I opend the box, there were two mags that seem as good as the Colt mags that a friend has, a bushing wrench, a bore brush, the tigger keys, the gun itself, AND the extra rubber Taurus grips.
Here is a photo:
I field stripped it (after finding the exact spot to pull the slide stop out
), cleaned the oil out of it, and took a look. The machining seems as good as my Shadow. The trigger is slightly gritty, but so was my Shadow, so I expect it will clean up after a few hundred rounds. The Taurus site said they have Heinie Straight 8 sights on it, but it had a set of Novak 3 dots on it instead; it matches the sight picture I installed on my Shadow so I am happy about this.We will have to see what I think after 500 rounds down the tube to break it in; so far I am impressed.
Jan. 30:
I finally got it out to the range. I wanted to just run some ammo trhough it to make sure it funactioned properly. I had one time out of 70 rounds where it failed to go into battery; the round chambered, but the slide did not go into battery. It was fairly cold and I had olid the snot out of it; this would not be the first time oil has thickened up on the slide rails and buggered it up.
There was a chunk of 2 ply 2x4 at the range; I wanted this for smashing blocks at the NSCC this year (if my infant daughter and wife do not have plans for those two vacation days
). I fired one round at it and missed; my buddy told me the shot went right (I am a lefty and not suprised). Next shot hit dead center sending it in 4 different directions . I think that will work.
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