Recently, a friend of mine purchased her first handgun. We narrowed down a lot of criteria, compared a lot of models, let her handle a lot of different guns, and she finally fell in love with the Taurus Slim.
I know there are plenty of Taurus haters out there, but I've owned 5 or 6 of them, mostly autos, with no issues at all, and I have several friends that can tell a similar story, so I wasn't too worried about her getting a lemon or anything.
Anyway, we went up to my local shop, and they cut her a nice deal; Taurus Slim in 9mm with 1 mag and no box for $299. It was some sort of special from one of their suppliers, hence the 1 mag and no box; but the price was right.
So she got it, and I went ahead and made her a holster for it, (IWB, similar to Supertuck.)
We just took it to the range yesterday, and she is quite pleased with it. At 7 yards, (she is a fairly new shooter, so I kept it close,) she was able to put all 28 from 4 magazines into the torso of a standard silhouette with no issues. I put about 2 mags through it; it was hitting a couple inches low and left, but I managed to get my 14 grouped into an area about the size of my fist, with one flier a couple of inches out.
It doesn't like Winchester White Box, (which I expected; the complaints I see about it all online typically mention that.) It does however, run flawlessly with the Remington green and white box FMJs, and with Sellier and Bellot (sp?) FMJs. Also tested a box of Hornady Critical Defense rounds, and they functioned flawlessly. I think the issue with the WWBs is the nose; they are very long and narrow, compared to the Remingtons and the S&Bs.
All in all, I'd say that for $300 brand new, its quite the bargain, as long as you can afford to buy a couple different kinds of ammo to make sure you feed it what it likes. She is very excited about it, and goes to take her Kentucky carry class on the 25th, I believe.
I know there are plenty of Taurus haters out there, but I've owned 5 or 6 of them, mostly autos, with no issues at all, and I have several friends that can tell a similar story, so I wasn't too worried about her getting a lemon or anything.
Anyway, we went up to my local shop, and they cut her a nice deal; Taurus Slim in 9mm with 1 mag and no box for $299. It was some sort of special from one of their suppliers, hence the 1 mag and no box; but the price was right.
So she got it, and I went ahead and made her a holster for it, (IWB, similar to Supertuck.)
We just took it to the range yesterday, and she is quite pleased with it. At 7 yards, (she is a fairly new shooter, so I kept it close,) she was able to put all 28 from 4 magazines into the torso of a standard silhouette with no issues. I put about 2 mags through it; it was hitting a couple inches low and left, but I managed to get my 14 grouped into an area about the size of my fist, with one flier a couple of inches out.
It doesn't like Winchester White Box, (which I expected; the complaints I see about it all online typically mention that.) It does however, run flawlessly with the Remington green and white box FMJs, and with Sellier and Bellot (sp?) FMJs. Also tested a box of Hornady Critical Defense rounds, and they functioned flawlessly. I think the issue with the WWBs is the nose; they are very long and narrow, compared to the Remingtons and the S&Bs.
All in all, I'd say that for $300 brand new, its quite the bargain, as long as you can afford to buy a couple different kinds of ammo to make sure you feed it what it likes. She is very excited about it, and goes to take her Kentucky carry class on the 25th, I believe.