Taurus USA released a video this week teasing their latest product, what appears to be a competition-ready, striker-fired pistol.
“Competition Ready. Even if your not. Boundaries will be broken,” states the video.
We’ll know more on the Jan. 18th when Taurus releases the details. Stay tuned.
40 second commercial with about 5 seconds of gun photage. Looks like the sights are all polymer as well. I could see if this was months in advance having a commercial like this, but a few days away?
Rotating barrel? Be still my heart
Interesting.
From the little that they show, we can safely say striker-fired and polymer, but I am confused by what looks like a side-opening ejection port. Not a typical design feature for a modern centerfire, as it would (1) preclude the current SIG-style (modified browning) lock-up arrangement between barrel and slide, and (2) would work against reliable ejection. This type of ejection port is more common on straight-blowback designs. Could this be a competition 22? That seems inconsistent with the advertisement’s action-shooting “competition” theme, but that ejection port has me wondering.
Other clues are a manual safety and a trigger that looks like it was lifted from the Spectrum. Also, the size of the grip frame suggests a centerfire, possibly a double-stack.
Anyone else have any thoughts?
Probably 9mm, being competition ready. Side port is easily doable. Just a matter of where you put the ejector. If it is a rotating barrel (like the Beretta storm, Colt 2000, etc), even easier.
Looks to be mainly plastic. Personally, I am not a fan of Taurus, sold way too many and had very irate customers constantly bringing them back to be sent back to Taurus for repair. Stopped stocking them after a while. Just too much of a pain.