Taurus Find My Model - Taurus The Taurus Model Number Lookup System will help you find detailed information about your Taurus Gun. Enter the serial number (no. Taurus firearms serial number lookup, taurus serial number lookup, taurus serial numbers. Click on a term to search for related topics. The serial number of Taurus revolvers is usually stamped on the right side of the frame ahead of the trigger guard.

I would check it out carefully first. I wish I hadn't sold my Taurus M605 - it was a good little gun. REVOLVER CHECKOUT WARNING: Most of these tests require violation of the 'finger off trigger' rule. Therefore, be extremely careful about safe muzzle direction and personally making sure the gun is unloaded as you begin handling it.

Bring a small, high-powered LED flashlight. Feeler gauges if needed; at a minimum, bring a.002',.004' and.006'. No dry firing is required or desired at any point. Cylinder play With the gun UNLOADED (check for yourself!), close the action. Thumb the hammer back, and while pulling the trigger, gently lower the hammer all the way down. Keep holding the trigger once the hammer is down.

(You've now put the gun in 'full lockup' - keep it there for this and most other tests.) Check for cylinder wiggle. Front/back is bad. A little side to side is OK but it's a bad thing if you can wiggle it one way, let go, and then spin it the other way a fraction of an inch and it stays there too. At the very least, it should 'want' to stop in just one place (later, we'll see if that place is any good). The ultimate is a 'welded to the frame' feeling. Cylinder gap Still holding the trigger at full lockup, look sideways through the barrel/cylinder gap.

If you're eyeballing it, you'll have to hold it up sideways against an overhead light source. SAFETY WARNING: This step in particular is where you MUST watch your muzzle direction. Look, part of what's happening here is that you're convincing the seller you know your poop. It helps the haggling process. If you do anything unsafe, that impression comes completely unglued. Timing With the gun held in full lockup, shine a light into the area at the rear of the cylinder near the firing pin. Look down the barrel to make sure the cylinder bore lines up with the barrel.

Check every cylinder. Bore Swing the cylinder open, or with most SAs pull the cylinder. Use the small flashlight to scope the bore out. Check each cylinder bore (chamber) with the light coming in from the front of each hole, you looking in from the back. Trigger To test a trigger without dry-firing it, use a plastic pen in front of the hammer to 'catch' it with the off hand, especially if it's a 'firing pin on the hammer' type. Or see if the seller has any snap-caps, that's the best solution. SA triggers (or a DA with the hammer cocked) should feel 'like a glass rod breaking'.

A tiny amount of take-up slack is tolerable, and is common on anything with a transfer bar or hammer block safety. Detecting Bad Gunsmithing Cock it, grab the hammer and 'wiggle it around' a bit.

Give it a bit of up/down, left/right and circular action with finger off trigger and watch your muzzle direction. You don't want that hammer slipping off an overly polished sear. Check for too-light springs. Replacement factory or Wolff springs are cheap both to buy and have installed. Quick Reminders: Full lockup Cylinder play Cylinder gap Alignment Bore and chambers Let off. Fixed notch or adjustable rear sight?

Ridges on the cylinder fluting? I'm reasonably certain it's an 80s series from the 1970s, assuming the grips are original.

If that's what it is, it was manufactured by Taurus using the old tooling they got from S&W for the Model 10. Quality control was all over the place because the tooling was worn out and the Taurus employees had no experience with it. It's the same thing as what happened a couple of years ago when all the old Marlin lever-action tooling went to Remington with no transfer of employees. I bought the one in the pic haha. Everything locked up GREAT, and it just needs a good cleaning.

Like I said I love the character of old revolvers. I stopped in to shoot it today while the paperwork does its thing. I shot AWFUL!

But once I learned the pistol I got better. It's my first SA/DA revolver and the sights aren't great. But it was a lot of fun to shoot and I look forward to the challenge of getting better with it. It was my first day shooting in a few weeks. (months possibly?) I feel so relaxed.

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By the way, the video is fucking horrifying. Not because anyone gets hurt in the video, but because of how criminally unsafe these guns are. Guy wraps his hand around the grip, physically incapable of pulling the trigger. Gun goes off. Puts safety on.

Gun goes off anyway. Turns out that this defect was common to almost the entire line of PT-series guns, including that very model 'Nah man it's just a precautionary thing, it's not really an issue, I looked down the barrel myself, it's totally safe' • • • •. The gun in the video is the same type as what is being recalled for causing fatal injuries due to misfiring from an inherent design flaw. You have nothing in evidence other than hearsay that attempts to dismiss what is obviously a widespread issue as a one off issue. There is actual evidence it is not a modification issue, so you're literally arguing that what some dude who never saw the gun is thinking is better evidence than a recall admitting to the flaws from the designer.

Reality check? Where did I say that it was 'greater evidence than Tarus' costly recall'? O.O I'm just sitting here reading and learning stuff on the internet about guns, because I only own two, and have only tried a handfull. Then I saw the video and remembered that someone said that it had been modified and that was the reason for that particular gun to fail. I dont know it that claim is 100% true, but I think I remember that a number of people backed up the claim.

But I'm not claiming to be right or anything. My Invoices And Estimates Deluxe 10 Crack. I just shared something I read, that I thought would be relevant to the discussion, without showing an oppinion. I'm just saying that somone said that the gun in the video had been modified, and many backed up his claim.

And I was hopig someone else come back and explain just that. So someone from reddit whose username you can't even recall is a greater authority than the manufacturer issuing the recall? Sure that 1 gun was modified, expan why the rest of them are behaving the exact same way. I'm not defending Taurus at all! But your argument is, you're putting blame on an Individual for the fault common to a whole range of pistols. That would have to be the most successful terrible gunsmith ever to have that many pistols with their faulty custom work out there.

So someone from reddit whose username you can't even recall is a greater authority than the manufacturer issuing the recall? I just wanted to share what I remembered so that maybe someone else would recall what was the case with the gun in the video, and maybe shed some light, as I thought it would be relevant to the discussion, since the video was brought up.

As I've said many times before, IM NOT DEFENDING TAURUS!!! But your argument is, you're putting blame on an Individual for the fault common to a whole range of pistols. I'm putting blame to on an individual for the fault of ONE GUN IN A VIDEO.