I have a Taurus .38 revolver which seems to be a clone of a Smith and Wesson. I've run a metricl buttload of el-cheapo Messikin Aguila rounds through it. They used to be cheap as used air at the fun show here a few years back so I'd buy 100-to-150 of 'em once a month. Now I have several thousand empties to reload.
For some reason I've never developed a taste for those funny looking autoloaders. Prolly 'cause they throw perfectly good brass all over the place.
OTH I've got a sweet old Star B that goes BANG! every time I pull the trigger with a round in the chamber and feeds a new one if there's one in the magazine. Trusty and reliable as an anvil, it is. Just like my Taurus six shooter. I particularly like 'em because they only set me back about $50.00 each from guys that had to have the newest and shiniest.
Got a friend who badly needed a defensive arm for her home a few years back, and found a shop that had a Taurus .38, 4" barrel(probably just like yours). I looked it over, and aside from the 'design' some idiot had scratched into one side, it seemed mechanically sound, and the price was really good, so she bought it.
That thing shot beautifully, and she still has it. Makes you think their QC must've REALLY slipped downhill.
Was this a standard model, or did the Brazilian State Police specify some non-standard features? When you buy anything 98,000 pieces at a time, you can get it _your_ way - but it usually isn't a good idea to deviate too far from the tried and true designs. Or, as some of the posters at Firehands link suggested, maybe Taurus sells it's best product in competitive markets in other countries, and dumps the "seconds" on the Brazilian police, who aren't allowed by law to go to a different source...
On a somewhat different topic, how many Federal Police does Brazil need? 98K pistols implies at least 98K cops, right? And that's not all the federal cops, there is also a Federal Highway Patrol. For comparison, according to Wikipedia, for a larger area and a 50% larger population than Brazil the USA has about 105K federal officers with arrest powers all total. (That's adding up dozens of federal agencies.) And IMHO we've got way too many...
It's possible that the Brazilian feds are even more involved with state and local policing than our feds, but I don't see that from the Wikipedia articles. Except for the federal highway patrol, it sounds like Brazilian policing is decentralized to the states much like ours, although it's not clear if city police forces are separate or part of the state force.
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That looks like a serious design flaw.
It looks like some part of the linkage between the trigger and the sear has too much weight in it, and a pivot too far from its balance point.
I'd be interested to know more when it's available in English.
PS, the British SA80 POS used to go off if you dropped it.
I have a Taurus .38 revolver which seems to be a clone of a Smith and Wesson. I've run a metricl buttload of el-cheapo Messikin Aguila rounds through it. They used to be cheap as used air at the fun show here a few years back so I'd buy 100-to-150 of 'em once a month. Now I have several thousand empties to reload.
For some reason I've never developed a taste for those funny looking autoloaders. Prolly 'cause they throw perfectly good brass all over the place.
OTH I've got a sweet old Star B that goes BANG! every time I pull the trigger with a round in the chamber and feeds a new one if there's one in the magazine. Trusty and reliable as an anvil, it is. Just like my Taurus six shooter. I particularly like 'em because they only set me back about $50.00 each from guys that had to have the newest and shiniest.
Gerry N.
Got a friend who badly needed a defensive arm for her home a few years back, and found a shop that had a Taurus .38, 4" barrel(probably just like yours). I looked it over, and aside from the 'design' some idiot had scratched into one side, it seemed mechanically sound, and the price was really good, so she bought it.
That thing shot beautifully, and she still has it. Makes you think their QC must've REALLY slipped downhill.
Keith, Kim du Toit had a long piece some years back about the SA80; scary damn thing to foist on the troops.
Was this a standard model, or did the Brazilian State Police specify some non-standard features? When you buy anything 98,000 pieces at a time, you can get it _your_ way - but it usually isn't a good idea to deviate too far from the tried and true designs. Or, as some of the posters at Firehands link suggested, maybe Taurus sells it's best product in competitive markets in other countries, and dumps the "seconds" on the Brazilian police, who aren't allowed by law to go to a different source...
On a somewhat different topic, how many Federal Police does Brazil need? 98K pistols implies at least 98K cops, right? And that's not all the federal cops, there is also a Federal Highway Patrol. For comparison, according to Wikipedia, for a larger area and a 50% larger population than Brazil the USA has about 105K federal officers with arrest powers all total. (That's adding up dozens of federal agencies.) And IMHO we've got way too many...
It's possible that the Brazilian feds are even more involved with state and local policing than our feds, but I don't see that from the Wikipedia articles. Except for the federal highway patrol, it sounds like Brazilian policing is decentralized to the states much like ours, although it's not clear if city police forces are separate or part of the state force.
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