After selling my Sig here on MGO (thanks MGO), I decide to use that money for another 1911. My fascination for this style of pistol knows no bounds, except for the limiting factor of my checkbook.
I ordered it on GunBroker and had it shipped to an FFL (M@K arms in Clinton Twsp, very nice guy). Everything went very smooth during the transaction. I was a little nervous using GunBroker, because it was my first time, but it worked out very well.
(BTW, any inventor looking for a million dollar idea should develop a "Breathalyzer tool" that will not let you make an internet purchase if you have a BAC of more than .05. See my upcoming Kimber review LOL )
I paid 648.00 otd, including the FFL transfer.
I brought it home and disassembled it, just to check it out before shooting it. My first impressions were pretty good. The fit and finish seemed perfectly acceptable. The outside of the gun looks great, I love the Duo-Tone scheme and at half the price of a Kimber Eclipse, I was very happy.
I did notice the feed ramp needs a little touch up, to be considered "polished", it has 2 minor scratches if you look close, but it looked like it would function great the way it came.
When I racked the slide it felt very nice, with no "gritty" feeling to it at all. All the other internals looked ok, but I am going to give them an "average" rating just because I thought some of the edges should have been deburred a little better.
I reassembled it and took it out for a test drive a day or 2 later. Here is the bad part. Before I took it out, I dropped one of my reloads into the chamber through the ejection port and sent the slide forward to make sure it would chamber, and it did. Well according to internet legend, and unbeknown-st to me, if you do this, you can break the extractor.
Fast forward to the range. The first 2 clips ran fine and the gun was grouping very well with no FTE or FTF. Then the third clip I had a FTE. No big deal I thought, it could be my reloads. Well I had some WWB stuff and different mags so I tried every combination I could think of to try and get this gun to cycle. Nothing worked.
After I got home I disassembled it and found the culprit, a broken ejector. So I am going to call Taurus tomorrow and see how their customer service really is.
I am not sure if it was my fault for chambering a round the way I did, or just a faulty extractor. This may be one of those dreaded MIM parts that I hear about so often. Either way It's not a huge deal, but I am a little disappointed.
I will update this thread when I hear back from Taurus CS.
I did really like the front strap checkering and the feel of the gun when it did work, so I am hoping this is just an isolated incident and not the "ghost of 'range time' future"
I will reserve comment of my overall rating until I hear back from Taurus, install a new ejector and give it a real testing.