I haven't had as much trigger time with the new 856 as I'd like, because of travel and .mil stuff. Everything I said in the video reflects my original opinion: Taurus did a great job with this gun. They put a bunch of serious revolver shooters in a room and said "what kind of gun do you want for a belt gun EDC" and we said "3 inch DAO with fixed sights, chamfered charge holes and good grips"
And they made it.
Now, minor quibbles: the trigger is heavy, but it's not bad heavy because it doesn't stack at the end of the pull. I'm going to change the grips on mine for 2 reasons: as much as I like them they're hard to conceal, and a couple of times the extractor trapped an empty shell on the grip. Those are very minor quibbles and are things that can be easily fixed with a trip to VZ grips.
They really need to make that concealed hammer available as a drop-in accessory on the web site.
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Not another dime.
So, about ~8 years ago. A friend of mine introduced me to a friend of his. That friend-of-a-friend had recently been hired by Taurus to help revamp ALL of their QC checks and QA process. He told me when he was hired he told Taurus Execs that had to be committed to revamping everything because they had QC issues everywhere and that it would take ~5 years or so for them to implement all the necessary changes and brings things up to appropriate standards. To Taurus' credit, they said, "Okay." And let him go.
Now here we are 8-years down the road and Taurus builds revolvers that are better in quality than Smith and Wesson right now. On the one hand, I'm (pleasantly) surprised, because they saw it through. On the other, I am not surprised, because if you actually do it, you can get quality pieces. Would I trust an 856 to run 20k without breaking down? No. But I wouldn't trust a Smith to make it 20k either and the Taurus is 1/2-1/3 the price.
In the meantime, I'm cautiously optimistic about how these guns are doing out there in the world. Optimistic enough, I might well buy an 856 and give it a run. Because 3" D-Frame sized guns are 100% my jam.