S&W Snubbie Quandry

[metamurph]

At the shop I looked at this thing side by side with the new Kahr polymer 45. The Kahr is a bit thinner, they're both about the same length, and the Kahr was TWICE as much as the Taurus. Now I know that maybe the two are not comparable in overall quality, but considering I was buying another pistol at the same time, it just didn't make sense to me to spend the extra money. Frankly I've been interested in Taurus for  a couple of years and never had one, so BAM! There it is. AND that other $350 can go up in smoke.

That will buy you a good 700 rounds of .45, or pay for a reloader if you don't have one

[mnshooter]

Taurus does like their grease.  I had a used Millinnium that refused to fire on a mild 10F Minnesota winter day; found the slide packed with grease.  Thought at first the previous owner had decided to try out his pneumatic grease gun on the striker channel; later learned that quite a few of them do arrive in this condition. Just like cosmoline, a light pass with a heat gun or even a hair dryer will get the stuff in a better mood for removal. 

[jaybet]

Thanks for the advice, guys, but that's always the first thing I do with a new gun is strip it down and clean the gook out. I've done that ever since I bought wifey a brand new Ruger GP161 and spent 2-1/2 hours cleaning the crap out of it. That one was still in the factory bag. So maybe it's just not Taurus...

The Taurus is clean as a whistle and is shooting like a champ. I like it.

The other night I actually fixed the S&W...I pushed the spring rings out of the cylinder with a wood dowel...no lube or anything. She cleaned it up like no one else can, and we took it out to the range tonight and it's like a brand new gun if you ignore the scratches. I don't think it was every fired much, but it's as sweet a shooter as a J frame could be without a trigger job.

So thanks for all the advice...those rings came right out and we got a real nice pocket gun on the cheap.