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To: Knitebane

Santa’s AWESOME!

My wife and I just picked up our Class A LTC’s this past weekend - very excited especially since we live in Massachusetts and expected a humongous ass-ache. The first thing we did was make a b-line to our local armory to enquire about the Taurus ‘Judge’. Anybody have any thoughts and opinions on this model? The cover of the latest NRA Rifleman magazine features it and the write-up for it was very favorable. Any first-hand experiences out there?


21 posted on 12/23/2008 10:04:51 AM PST by wally-balls
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To: wally-balls
The first thing we did was make a b-line to our local armory to enquire about the Taurus ‘Judge’. Anybody have any thoughts and opinions on this model?

I haven't fired the Judge but I've fired a lot of Taurus revolvers.

If at all possible, try to shoot it before you buy it.

A revolver made by any of the larger manufacturers is going to generally be ok quality-wise, so how it feels in your hand and how you perceive the recoil are going to be much bigger factors in how happy you are with your purchase.

We looked at several Taurus, Smith and Charter Arms revolvers before we settled on the Ruger and that was a happy accident.

We went looking for a particular kind of weapon for Mrs. Knitebane. It had to be a revolver, less than a 3 inch barrel, either hammerless or shrouded hammer and in .357 caliber.

We had pretty much made up our minds on either a J-Frame Smith or a Taurus when we came across the Ruger SP-101. I have a special place in my heart for Rugers since my first large caliber revolver was a Security Six but I wasn't aware that Ruger made a hammerless six gun.

That it came from the factory with Crimson Trace lasergrips was a definite plus and we jumped on it.

26 posted on 12/23/2008 10:19:49 AM PST by Knitebane (Happily Microsoft free since 1999.)
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