Taurus 357MG Thunderbolt AS PSS - Wood Stock

Inspected closely before accepting and paying then found a 'chunk' of the stock had broken. I have no idea how, as it was reboxed before I left the gun store. I figure i'll have to live with it as I should have noticed before I took it home. As to function; The cartridge feed spring is extremely stiff making loading problematic and painful on the fingertips. The weapon shoots as accurately as can be expected for the caliber I bought. It feeds ok until I tried a rapid fire test. When cocking slowly everything is fine. Try a fast reload and you WILL jam the mechanism, EVERY time. This will be the last Taurus I ever buy. I wish I had not bought this one. Poor quality stock material. questionable production quality. My take? It looks pretty in pictures and maybe in the store. But my advice is to leave it there, don't buy. This rates a 1 only because I can't give it a 0. It hasn't blown up in my face yet and it is unlikely to do so as it is too much trouble to use and just gathers dust.

Purchased for Cowboy Action. Great look and great performance.

Love it - took it to Texas when visiting kids & grandkids. Thought we might get a shot at a pig but didn't see anything. Settled for oranges. Right out of the box, and after just a couple rounds, you can't miss with it out to about a hundred yards and I'm saying 100 yrds just because that's the farthest we were shooting. Was using Hornady LeverEvolution (140 gr) and it cycled without a hitch. Tried some .38 spl and had some problems but nothing major and I believe after it gets broken in a bit more and I get more in tune with the gun .38's won't be a problem either. I'm gonna try some different loads in .357 also to see if there's something I like better. I believe this is a good deal and I'd recommend this gun for some fun shooting and I think Bud's is the place to shop. No, I don't work here - but I have bought three guns from here and they were the best deals out there.