Posted: 1/6/2006 4:10:04 PM EDT
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Any good? I'm about to go buy one in an hour. Small, black, .357, tiny-ass pistol. Five shot, very small hammer. Just curious. It's kinda cheap, so I want to know if it's a piece of shit. |
| I have an older Model 85. Bought it in the late 80's. Had to change the cheap wood grips to pachmayer's. (sp) Its trigger will rival any Simth I have ever shot. It's had probably 600 rounds through it. I know for sure that at least 100 were +P's. Never had a problem with it. Wife keeps it in her night stand. |
| I had a 617, a 605, and a 22lr 6 shot. Unfortunately I had problems with all. the 617 lost some parts after only shooting 20 rounds (screws fell out), Taurus sent me new parts very fast, no questions asked. 605 kept failing to fire, light striking primers no matter what ammo. I used so I got rid of it. The 22lr had timing issues, I sent it back to Taurus and after a couple of months I got it back and it worked okay but had a very heavy trigger. After that I lost confidence in Taurus revolvers. Now, a hell of a lot of people really like them and have had no problems. I would just keep an eye out for loose screws. I hope you have better luck than I did it looks like a nice gun. |
That is real good to know. I picked up a M85 from the EE and really like it. smooth trigger pull on this one, but not sure if there was any tweaking done by the original owner. Any issues you know of one should be aware of, if you have the time or know? TIA |
No problems that I have heard of or experienced. Mine looks exactly like the one 2 or 3 posts up. |
I noticed my speedloaders are tight to fir into the cylender , anyone else had that issue? thanks for the help so far. this is a very helpful thread Darx 
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