Got a new tool today

[bettingpython]

Tauraus PT 1911 excellent value for the price. Has alot of nice features you would normal have to smith into a box stock 1911 for not really any more money than a stock one runs.

Put a 100 rounds through it at the range today ate the center out of a bt-5 target at 15 yards with no problems. Trigger pull is a little stiff but it should smooth out in time.

[vtlion]

purty 

I have owned two Taurus pistols, both PT945s.  I love them.  Their whole line is a good value for the price.  Happy plinking! 

[jserio]

 

[yamahonkawazuki]

Ill be damned, a liberal with a handgun    ,    lol just farkin with ya , ive had one of those, and after some trigger mods, i loved it even more. i sitll love my smith 500 though 

[theUBS]

i sitll love my smith 500 though 

My buddy (b_long_1) has one of those.  What a beast!  I've only ever fired it once.  Had spent the afternoon firing a .22 and a .38 and had been sort of lulled to sleep and didn't really know what to expect.  That was a major step up!  Made the mistake of not having any ear protection on.  Took 3 full days to recover!

BP, the new Taurus looks great!  Enjoy!

[spc]

Nice BP!   There's a S&W 40 at a local shop priced pretty nicely that i keep drooling over, I need to go ahead and get my SC license so I can buy it.

[Mdow]

im saving to buy that gun for xmas

[b_long_1]

i sitll love my smith 500 though 

I love mine too, but don't get to shoot it as often as I would like. It is a bunch of fun to see the expression on other people's faces when they see and hear you shoot it for the first time.

[bettingpython]

Yeah well shooting just got alot more expensive for me. Took the wife to the rang yesterday when I went to start the break in on it. Rented her an XD 9mm from the pro shop since she hadn't shot a pistol ever. She did really well for a total n00b all of her rounds were in tha black on a B27 target at 10 yards. Then she comes over to my lane and have her run a couple of mags through the .45. She liked it better than the 9mm and put 6 of 8 shots in the 10 ring at 10 yards.  evrything grouped nicely for her with the 45 she liked the extra weight of the all steel construction and the thinner grip size of the single stack 45.

Looks like I will be buying her her own pistol soon.

It comes with the Heinie 8 ball sights I'm going to swap those for the tritium version and call it good, it's that nice right out of the box. It comes with 30 lpi checkered hardwood grips which are nice.

List of features for the pt19111.

Hardwood grips and synthetic grips, dovetail mounted Heinie 8 ball sights, polished feed ramp and barrel throat, beveled mag well, high ride beavertail grip safety, extended ambidextrous thumb safety, match trigger, extended sllide release, over sized mag release button, match trigger, lowered and flared ejection port, 30 lpi checkering on the mainspring housing and front of the grip, full length guide rod with hand fitted barrel bushing and the slide is hand fitted and lapped in on the frame, no side to side slop in the frame to slide fit.

Total cost was 581.25 plus tax. Worked out to 631.00

A basic springfield 1911 is running $850 new.

[bettingpython]

i sitll love my smith 500 though 

I love mine too, but don't get to shoot it as often as I would like. It is a bunch of fun to see the expression on other people's faces when they see and hear you shoot it for the first time.

Anyone ever seen Harley Davidson and the Marlboro man? Thats what the smith 500 reminds me of 

"Harley you just spent 12 dollars and didn't hit shaZam!"

[frankieG]

what is it with you guys an fire arms...join the military or something

[lewismug]

S&W .500 being fired at night:

[b_long_1]

  Awesome pic!

[Revere2]

Hey Betti!! That is a nice "piece". It looks "slicked out" as a baby's backside. Please give future reports on this model. I have read many reports about "Taurus" going on several years and their "customer service", from what I read is horrible. Of course in all fairness, even the mighty Smith has had some "serious" probs in quality control according to many. I enjoy guns immensely but don't get to shoot nearly as much as I want to. I have a small collection of about 30 pieces from Civil War, Post Civil War up to 'bout 1981 I think. I don't have any "black weapons"/military type stuff. I see that Yama and maybe some more have that damned Smith .50. I have a Smith Model 29-2
with a 6 and 1/2 barrel (from 1978 I think) and I'm gonna tell you, with the 240 JSPs, THAT about maxes the limit of "the comfort zone""for me". When it starts to get painful...........it ain't fun anymore. But I love the .45 calibre. I have the Colt Series 70 Mark IV .45 that I bought as a young chicken back in 1979. I payed on it for a year on lay-a-way (when there was really such a thing). The last of the Series 70. It has been my personal gun since then. If I told you what I payed for it, you'd break down and weep. But hell in 1970 a Harley Sportster was $1995. When one is making 80 dollars a week.........that was a LOT of cheese!! hahahhaha. I have a site that you might be interested in concerning guns. Email me. I don't want to post it on this site or in a pm (on this site). Once again.......nice piece. I hope it gives you great service and you enjoy it! Shoot the piss out of it!!

BTW...........I notice that your screen name ends with python.........do you have a Colt Python?

[bettingpython]

Nope have a pet python. So far I am impressed with the taurus, just ordered my Heine tritium night sights today, once I get them on then I'll have to burn through a couple of boxes of ammo getting it zeroed back in. The fit and finish is very nice for the price point of this weapon. And damn you I don't want to know what a series 70 colt ran when you bought yours, right now they go for insane amounts used at gun shows. I miss seeing colt in the civillian market, damned anti-gun laws and legislation opening manufacturers to civil liability suits if some punk uses a gun in an innapropriate manner scared them away.

[Revere2]

Ok.......well since you asked........and since I am somewhat bedridden......and since I am heating up leftovers..........and can't really do anything but run my keyboard.........and you know a lot of my posts have "little stories" with them................let me tell ya a little story........

Maybe some of you remember the old "Otasco" stores. They had one in my hometown. I used to go there a lot and it was always on Saturdays with Dad for them to do "something" to his 1954 Customline Ford. God I hated that car and how I wish I had it now. Geez I must have been in the 3rd or 4th grade when we started going there......they "took credit" and we always had a "credit account" there for as long as I could remember. Hell, they sold everything from bicycles to tires to guns to radios and televisions. I loved hanging around the glass cases and looking at guns. Fast forward.  I remember the old double barrels............I remember a damn Colt Detective Special for like $229.00.
Of course this was totally unaffordable. Anway.........you could buy a DOUBLE BARREL shotgun for waaaaaay less than that. Hell, that was insane!!! One year.........when I was 24.......on my Wednesday afternoon off (Southern towns in the Delta used to do this--you had to work on Saturday) I went in to Otascos.....they were open.......I saw a "pretty" Colt Government Series 70". A man that I respected highly always recommended the .45 calibre. It was insanely overpriced. Otasco's were NOT known for "bargains".....but I KNEW I could get it "on lay-a-way" for years if I needed to. It was $299.95 plus 5% MS sales tax. I think that would have brought it to 314.95 total and I know someone here will correct me if I'm wrong! LewisMug maybe. hahahaha. It took me a year to "pay it off". I bought a box of shells with it and I knew that two of my buddies were fishing and getting high so I drove out in the country to see them and fire off this beautiful piece. Well, they looked at it ......one exclaimed "that's a nice little pistol". I said "yeah.....let me try it out".......there was a momma duck with a brood at a distance I ain't even gonna mention. I killed her. It was freaky. I said dear God in Heaven, I killed her.
They just kinda were motionless.......for some reason I shot again and killed one of her brood. I unloaded it, put it back in the box, back in the car. I was freaked. The rest of the brood was swimming around their dead mother floating in the water. I "took a few hits".........
reflected on what had happened........bid them a dieu, got back in the car drove home and left them fishing...................
That is the story of my Mark IV. I call it my personal sidearm but truly it now stays in the safe unless I am going to shoot or something really scares the shaZam! out of me. The "Car Gun" is a Smith model 15-4 (Combat Masterpiece) 2 inch snub. Hope you enjoyed the tale.

[yamahonkawazuki]

what is it with you guys an fire arms...join the military or something

because we can, and want to 

[yamahonkawazuki]

yeah i like the 50, however at almost $2 a shot, it does not get shot that often

[Jughead]

I ran Several Hundred Shots thru my Ruger P94 Last week.Still can't Hit shaZam!. I'm getting better though.Made some real Nice Noise with the 2 16 Round Clips and then the 32 Round.

[Revere2]

Frankie..............."we" "ARE"................."a military"..................an unorganized militia. Don't ever join anything. Sit tight. Be patient.
Practice. Have an heightened awareness.