And Taurus changed the entire firearm industry a few years ago when it dropped the price of a 9 mm Luger Millennium G2 to about $200 at retail. A culture shift occurred, with other changes ranging from new logos to making the website usable (you can now actually order a Taurus magazine without waiting for customer service to answer the phone). It no longer makes every gun part itself. Taurus has become a very different outfit from even a decade ago and is now under the same parent company that owns CBC and Sellier & Bellot. Disassembly is accomplished by using a screwdriver to turn the takedown pin (top, r.) to the unlocked position. The barrel (below r.) locks into the slide’s ejection port, and there is a High Power-style cam underneath. The recoil-operated, double-action-only Spectrum has Soft-Touch Overmold panels on its frame’s frontstrap and backstrap, as well as on the slide (l.). It has small sights integral with the slide, and all its surfaces have been dehorned-its lines and angles are smooth-with the intent of this being a carry gun that will be carried as the company’s slogan touts, “always bring it.” Most importantly, the frame is only 0.89" wide, and it has no external safeties. The Spectrum is 5.40" long, 3.82" high, has a 2.8" barrel and weighs in at 11.6 ozs. The gun comes with either a stainless or a Melonite-treated carbon steel slide. Locking is by a lug on the barrel’s top that mates against the slide at the front of the ejection port with a Browning High Power-style cam surface underneath. 380 ACP, recoil-operated, double-action-only pistol that feeds from either a six- or seven-round, single-column detachable box magazine. Rest assured, the Spectrum pocket pistol is not a re-skin of the TCP. The panels are chemically and mechanically bonded and unlikely, if not impossible, to separate. Also, it helps dissipate perceived recoil, as the overmolded elastomer is softer than the nylon frame. It is an innovative approach that re-imagines how both the weak and strong hands interface with the pistol, and Taurus calls it Soft-Touch Overmold. That is the material that you see across the front- and backstraps and where one would normally find rear slide serrations. Taurus worked with what is arguably the top company in the world in that field-PolyOne-to find a synthetic material that was soft yet tactile enough to be held onto while firing-all without “sticking” to one’s clothing. The end result was the use of elastomers not commonly found on firearms.
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Taurus knew the TCP was due for an upgrade and commissioned a study on ergonomics. So, because the Taurus Spectrum cannot amass enough import points, it is made here. Īlthough Taurus revolvers and many of its pistols are made in Brazil, the Gun Control Act of 1968 mandates that small, concealable guns be made in the United States. And they missed the changes at Taurus in the United States that made the Spectrum possible. While everyone was talking about the Spectrum’s color schemes, they missed the non-aesthetic features that make this gun mechanically interesting. Taurus was also one of the first makers to offer a polymer-frame subcompact in. Despite the jibes, perhaps rightly (some thrown by me), Taurus has taken on the View and the Curve-remember this is the same innovative company that gave us the Judge and was a leader with Millennium 9 mm Luger and. Some have difficulty looking past the surface. In a crowded monochromatic marketplace, a splash of color draws the eye, no doubt.
When you walk into a gun shop and gaze upon a sea of black, polymer-frame handguns on the other side of fingerprint-opaqued glass, the colors of the Taurus Spectrum, especially on the slide’s grasping surfaces and front- and backstrap panels, are truly distinct.
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