I've been wanting to try one of these out for awhile and now CDNN has than for $399. Seems like a decent price, but knowing Taurus and the fact that CDNN is usually a clearinghouse for discontinued items makes me a bit nervous! Any personal experience with them from anyone here? Could be a cool IN legal deer rifle, although I'm guessing it's not up to hot rodded loads.

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I have no personal experience with them but a quick web search of the Cowboy forums turns this up:

The Taurus Thunderbolt has been a problem gun from day one, Taurus redesigned the original Colt design to make it easier to produce, unfortunatly they also made it harder to work on than an original and near impossible to time, Most of the complaints I've hears were either a round gets under the carrier which is hard to clear or of live rounds being ejected during cycling . I've been a cowboy action shooter for quite a while and I haven't heard of more than a couple guys getting the Thunderbolt to work. I don't know of any cowboy gunsmith that still works on them and the last I heard was that Taurus wasn't even trying to repair them but offering refunds instead.
I have an early AWA lightning that took a few trips to the gunsmiths to get dialed in, I've probably shot it in ten major matchs without a problem, I shoot it faster than any of my lever guns but I can see where the real fast shooters would have a problem getting one to run as fast as a well tuned 73.
Sorry I could'nt give you better new's, If you want a real earfull go over to the SASS wire and ask about it. http://sassnet.com
14delta

Sounds like "no bueno"...

Byron

That's a bummer! I guess there's probably a reason why they weren't as popular as the winchesters and Marlins of the time.

Guess I'll pass...

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We've got a couple here that you're welcome to play with when you come down. We certainly haven't wrung them out the way a cowboy shooter would, but ours have been trouble free.

I'll try and remember to take you up on that!

I have my paperwork submitted to bring all the regulated toys with me!

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Looking forward to it!

I finally finished up my little S&W SBR:

Nice work!

Still non-NFA here. Damn it.