Congrats Caleb! Taurus Marketing Manager

[HeavyDuty]

This is famous P-F thread drift, but I’m at the point that if I could identify the best SKU I’d order a 3” Defender 856.

[Stephanie B]

I broke an MR73 with fewer trigger pulls than I have on my Taurus 856 Executive Grade, so you're rolling the dice there too.

Can we get Glock to make revolvers?

(Just kidding)

[Le Français]

I assume you meant "both ways."

I guess that means I'm one step closer to buying an 856 Defender, then.

That seals it for me regarding the 3" 692 9mm/.380/.38/.357 revolver.

[Paul D]

@jetfire

Now that you are the head salesman in charge at Taurus, I am curious about the brand now. It was never in my consciousness. If I were to ask you to pick one pistol and one revolver that best epitomize what Taurus USA is all about (quality, value, utility): what would you recommend for me? For example, the old saying for which Glock was the G19.

[jetfire]

Cool. I'll try it out soon.

From what I have read (hanging around the Taurusarmed forum, thus Internet hearsay, YMMV), if new enough they will. A bit older, and they will charge you for a shipping label to send it in. (No gun maker I've had to ship a gun into has charged for the return.)

Some guns are not under warranty, like I’m sorry that your Spectrum is broken 🤣

[OlongJohnson]

This is famous P-F thread drift, but I’m at the point that if I could identify the best SKU I’d order a 3” Defender 856.

I checked gun.deals again earlier today, and this is the best deal currently available, IMO. You might beat it by a couple (and I mean just a couple) bucks, but from outfits without the reputation and service:

https://www.kygunco.com/product/taur...ight-sights-ss

That is the SKU I would get because it's steel, so best chance of durability and best for shooting a lot, and the stainless won't change color when it gets worn, nicked and scratched. The black is just black oxide. It's over stainless if I remember correctly on the 856s, so it won't rust, but it will get worn quickly and you won't be able to do any deburring/smoothing of externally visible surfaces/edges/corners without making it look like hell.

[Totem Polar]

God, that’s an awful thing to read. But is that S&W only, or also Ruger and Kimber?

I’ve personally sent 4 guns back to Ruger—admittedly, over more than 3 decades. Each time, they came back absolutely way better than new. It’s as if the peeps there take it as a mark of shame that something happened the first time, and they give a bit of extra love to the trigger mechanism while it’s apart for the unfucking. That goes double for SA wheelies.


I will *NEVER* buy another new S&W. Not after the last, Stephanie-esque multi-trip debacle. And, folks, a lot of you know me: I have a safe with a top shelf full of old S&W wheelies. But fuck those guys. (I mean, aside from the 640pro I bought a year or two ago. S&W no-lock centennial, I wish I knew how to quit you…)

As to Caleb, he may have awesome new powers and prestige, but he’ll always just be another needy P-F wheelie whore to me. And more power to Taurus for seeing the value in that. We are indeed lucky that he was slumming here first. JMO.


PS. “856 Executive Grade P-F group buy.”

I’m a wheelie whore too.

[lee n. field]

Some guns are not under warranty, like I’m sorry that your Spectrum is broken 🤣

It's a .44 Tracker that needs work I'd rather not attempt myself.

[Jared]

I’ve personally sent 4 guns back to Ruger—admittedly, over more than 3 decades. Each time, they came back absolutely way better than new. It’s as if the peeps there take it as a mark of shame that something happened the first time, and they give a bit of extra love to the trigger mechanism while it’s apart for the unfucking. That goes double for SA wheelies.


I will *NEVER* buy another new S&W. Not after the last, Stephanie-esque multi-trip debacle. And, folks, a lot of you know me: I have a safe with a top shelf full of old S&W wheelies. But fuck those guys. (I mean, aside from the 640pro I bought a year or two ago. S&W no-lock centennial, I wish I knew how to quit you…)

As to Caleb, he may have awesome new powers and prestige, but he’ll always just be another needy P-F wheelie whore to me. And more power to Taurus for seeing the value in that. We are indeed lucky that he was slumming here first. JMO.


PS. “856 Executive Grade P-F group buy.”

I’m a wheelie whore too.

And I had a Super GP100 that took two trips back to Ruger before it was right.

I’m not bagging on Ruger, if I was gonna go buy a new revolver sight unseen right now, it’d be a Ruger. But that one was a mess.

[jetfire]

And I had a Super GP100 that took two trips back to Ruger before it was right.

I’m not bagging on Ruger, if I was gonna go buy a new revolver sight unseen right now, it’d be a Ruger. But that one was a mess.

I had to send my Super GP100 to Cylinder & Slide so they could fix it