Taurus PT 92 discontinued? Opinions?

This is NOT Beretta/Taurus bash. I retired from the US Air force where we had to shoot the 92 and I just never liked it. I feel its a good pistol but it was so big and heavy and I hated the safty. I own a Glock 19 and it works for me. My close friend through childhood became a LEO in our home town and when on leave back at Dad's house he came to see me in full uniform. He was carrying a beautiful stainless 92 and asked me to go to the range with him. We shot the crap out of it and it shot fine. A few years later, home on leave again, he pulls up in his patrol car hops out and gives me a hug and I see he is wearing a Glock. I ask him whats up and he tells me "you ever work a 12 hour shift with a heavy pistol strapped on?" I said no and he told me the glock is as good a pistol and was just so much lighter. I told him yeah, I know, I got a few. Thats all the info I can input.
 
one aftermarket company produced mags that were supposed to work in both beretta and taurus 92's. the mag "notch" had a wide part and then a narrow part. dunno how well that worked.
 
superduty truck said:
Disagree, Taurus out shot my beretta sold my beretta. Tighter groups at 10,15,20 and 25 yrds. Taurus pt92 is fine pistol do not let beretta snobs tell you different. I fired over 2000 +p rounds in mine and it has not let me down. I use to have two, trade one for a smith 686. reason I love the 686 and the other buyer wanted a pt92. He has no problems either, I meet once and while at the range and shoot together. The one I still have used to belong to my Dad. he fired 300 rounds every every month, he had it since 93, until he handed it to me. I had to change the locking block, but you should do the same to beretta. Taurus bought the tooling from beretta and refined the 92 to what it is today. The safties are place on the frame were they belong, not on the slide. I heard few problems of the model 92 compare to taurus's other models ie plastic models and pt22/25. The 1911 is another pick for me, I'm saving my money for that one. I heard nothing but good reviews from the pistol.
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ya got a good one then, if it has a decent trigger , rare is the taurus which does, i have never ever seen one myself but i have heard tales of them.......

kinda like sasquatch lol,

i wouldnt buy one just cause they are disco'ing them, there are tons of them around and taurus doesnt have a lot of collector interest imho.

not bad pistols though, just most imho need a trigger job to really be "right" and comparable to berretta.
 
I have owned exactly one Taurus, and I have no plans to buy another. I purchased a PT22, and the firing pin broke off before I ever got to actually shoot it. There are a lot of used Beretta 92s that can be had for quite reasonable prices.
 
For a shooter, the Taurus would be fine. I wouldn't give much over $200 for it though.
 
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