I look forward to your thoughts on receiving it!Originally Posted by FrankB
I look forward to your thoughts on receiving it!
It will be viewed with the same hard and harsh standards I use on all firearms, and then sold…lol! I have a S&W 642, but it’s annoying to shoot, at least compared to the M36.
Was just piddling around on the internet, like you do, and ended up on the Lipsey's website looking at revolvers. Decided to use their search to see the Roscoes, but when I put in the info it said 6 products found. Sure enough, in addition to the released 2-inch and 3-inch models with wood grips that were released this year, Talo has apparently ordered two new Roscoes in both barrel lengths: One version comes with pearl grips, the other says "Rosewood & White Pearl Grips" in their respective pages on Davidson's Gallery of Guns website. I assume that means one grip with both materials rather than two grips?
Neither the Heritage website nor the Talo website show these models yet.
No images on any of the SKUs at the time I'm posting this, but I'll leave the Lipsey's links:
Lipsey's:
2" w/ Pearl Grips
3" w/ Pearl Grips
2" w/Rosewood and Pearl Grips
3" w/Rosewood and Pearl Grips
Note that Davidson's has pages for these items as well - which is where I found the bit about the Rosewood and Pearl Grips - but I'm not sure how to properly link from GoG since it requires your zip code and all that.
MSRP across all of these Talo Roscoes is listed as $378.99
Not seeing pictures. I wonder if they're putting on some of the alternate small frame grips from Taurus' webstore.
I don’t have a ROSCOE YET, but when I see one, I will get one. I do know Caleb, and he and I have shot together in training. I’ve paid with every Taurus product I own with my money (full price).
My Taurus collection (THIS modern iteration of Taurus) started with the 856 Executive, and I was so impressed that a gun that cost 1/3 as much as my Smith PC guns but performed as good/better than the more expensive gun. The 856 got an initial bad rap because the crane screw came loose when a pus-gut influencer attempted to shoot 500 rounds through it in rapid succession…and the screw loosened and fell out. Which, for me, as an experienced revolver guy (first duty gun was a 681) amounted to a big fat WHO CARES? Tighten your screws kid…it prevents that kind of thing from happening. Then, as the universe often does, I found myself presented with the opportunity to purchase three more in rapid succession. They’ve all been great, and I shoot the hell out of them. As a large handed individual, I like the feel of the Pachmayr Legend grips the best, as you see here on the TORO iteration. I’m going to get a Taurus Medium Frame 4” or 6” gun to compete in the local league as a revolver competitor (again) and run it bone stock.
Sorry for the thread drift. I said all of that to say that I can afford to buy anything I want. I chose to buy the Taurus’ instead of comparable Smiths (I bought two UC’s…both had problems that had to be corrected). So I’m over the, “Given the choice, I’ll pick big blue,” is a thing of the past. And I say that as a guy that owns DOZENS of Smith products.
Each gun is an individual, and I’ve been very pleased with my Taurus guns, BUT MORE IMPORTANTLY FOR THIS THREAD is that our guy, Caleb, who is one of us, is doing the damn thing and giving the cognoscenti (us) what we want. And he WANTS YOU to look the gift horse in the mouth. And that is a good thing…guns that are designed with REAL defensive users in mind, like these, the UC series from Bryan and DB, these are all good things. And it ain’t common amongst the makers of guns; most aren’t shooters and FEW train.
I’m all for anything that moves the industry in a positive direction, and you all should be too.
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Dr. House,
I am in agreement with you.
I have a twin to the one in the first picture, except it sports an orange XS sight (green was OOS) and the factory rubber grips. A set of UM boot grips should be delivered today.
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Dr House,
I don’t have a ROSCOE YET, but when I see one, I will get one. I do know Caleb, and he and I have shot together in training. I’ve paid with every Taurus product I own with my money (full price).
My Taurus collection (THIS modern iteration of Taurus) started with the 856 Executive, and I was so impressed that a gun that cost 1/3 as much as my Smith PC guns but performed as good/better than the more expensive gun. The 856 got an initial bad rap because the crane screw came loose when a pus-gut influencer attempted to shoot 500 rounds through it in rapid succession…and the screw loosened and fell out. Which, for me, as an experienced revolver guy (first duty gun was a 681) amounted to a big fat WHO CARES? Tighten your screws kid…it prevents that kind of thing from happening. Then, as the universe often does, I found myself presented with the opportunity to purchase three more in rapid succession. They’ve all been great, and I shoot the hell out of them. As a large handed individual, I like the feel of the Pachmayr Legend grips the best, as you see here on the TORO iteration. I’m going to get a Taurus Medium Frame 4” or 6” gun to compete in the local league as a revolver competitor (again) and run it bone stock.
Sorry for the thread drift. I said all of that to say that I can afford to buy anything I want. I chose to buy the Taurus’ instead of comparable Smiths (I bought two UC’s…both had problems that had to be corrected). So I’m over the, “Given the choice, I’ll pick big blue,” is a thing of the past. And I say that as a guy that owns DOZENS of Smith products.
Each gun is an individual, and I’ve been very pleased with my Taurus guns, BUT MORE IMPORTANTLY FOR THIS THREAD is that our guy, Caleb, who is one of us, is doing the damn thing and giving the cognoscenti (us) what we want. And he WANTS YOU to look the gift horse in the mouth. And that is a good thing…guns that are designed with REAL defensive users in mind, like these, the UC series from Bryan and DB, these are all good things. And it ain’t common amongst the makers of guns; most aren’t shooters and FEW train.
I’m all for anything that moves the industry in a positive direction, and you all should be too.
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Who makes the super slim serrated grips? Never saw a set like that for Taurus before?
I got them from a seller on EBay! They’re great! Aggressive enough traction to get a grip, but thing enough to snatch ahold of it quickly from a pocket or a bum bag.
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Thanks doc!
Ohhhhh good thinking. Here is a set of pearl grips on their website, and here is a rosewood and pearl grip from the Taurus store. I'm not a pearl guy but the latter one is tastefully done imo. One of those in .32 might make it's way into my home if Heritage/Taurus were to do that.
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