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Well, I cleaned the new PT 1911 last night and took it to the range today. My first impression when I had it stripped was that it looked pretty good. There was one rough mill mark inside the lower frame slide area, but otherwise I saw no other blems. Personally, I like the finish on the gun since it will be an occassional carry and will spend quite a bit of time in either my motorcycle tank bag or in a shoulder rig. I won't be crying if it gets scratched up some. I don't pamper my guns anyway, but also don't intentionally abuse them. Anyway, it was pretty clean from the factory, but a little sticky with their grease. After a good cleaning with a little brush, some gun patches, and a little Outers Solvent things felt better. I lubed the whole shebang up with some RemOil (maybe got a little carried away, as I wiped excess off for about an hour) and put it back together. Today I was off to the range with 50 rounds of American Eagle and 50 of Independance, and 8 round of Fiochii, all 230gr FMJ and the 2 Taurus factory mags. I did notice that the first round or two were a little difficult to chamber by hand, but this ended by the time I'd fired a couple of full mags through. There were no fail to feeds, mag problems or other glitches during the entire 100 rounds.
As far as accuracy is concerned, I was fairly impressed. At 7yds the impact was point of aim and made one but hole where the X ring on the B27 target used to be. Out to about 14yds the group stayed at about 4" and had a tendancy toshoot low right about 2-3". Out to the end of the range, I was aiming at the right shoulder/peck area and all shots stayed in about the same 4" group and hit in about the sternum/center chest area. Maybe a drop to the right of about 6". I did fire three, five round groups off a make shift rest of the range stall shelf in my stall and the point of aim was much more controled and did not have much drop at all. I think once I either get used to the Heine sights or put some night sights on, the groups will improve. All sights seem to be smaller than they were 10yrs ago for some reason. :-\.
Overall, I was very impressed and my faith is restored in Taurus. If anyone is interested, I posted the pics of my 3 Taurus pistols on the "SHOW ME YOUR TAURUS" section of this forum. Like others have stated, I'm ready for the compact model now. In my opinion, this new Taurus shot every bit as well as the range Colt 1911 that I rented a few weeks ago. After I get about 200 rounds through it, I will try out a few HPs, since that is what I prefer to carry, but like with the .357, I don't doubt the .45 will stop anything I'd need to shoot with the FMJ ammo, especially since all 8 (7 in the Tracker) would be in about a 4" area.
GREAT GUN TAURUS.
