If you spend $500 plus on a gun, you expect it to work. But, not everyone has the extra money to spend but still wants to be able to protect themselves and their family. There are a lot of inexpensive guns out there. Do they work? Are they a good buy for the money?
This week I picked up a Taurus Spectrum for $139. Tomorrow I will try it out and report back the good and the bad. Hopefully, there won't be a lot of bad but, it's a Taurus. Taurus seems to be hit and miss on their quality.
Nearly two years ago I bought a SCCY CPX-2 9mm for $175. I had read some good things about them and the main negative thing that I had read was people complained about the trigger.
When I checked out the gun, the fit and finish seemed to be pretty good. It came with 2 10 round magazines. The trigger pull was very long but also very smooth. Think of a well used S&W K frame, that's what it reminded me of. The bad part is the reset is all the way to the end of the stroke. You have to make sure the trigger returns all the way forward before firing the next round.
I decided not to clean it or do anything to it, just run it as right out of the box. I loaded up both magazines with 115 gr ball and went to the range. Here are the first 10 rounds through the gun at 10 yards.
Here are the next 10 rounds out of the 2nd magazine, also at 10 yards.
I gave it to my buddy to try and he stretched it out to 25 yards and shot both magazines through it. Here is his results.
We were closing in on 400 rounds when we had our first failure.
I cleared the jam and then put some oil on the rails and the gun went back to working. Remember, it wasn't cleaned before we started. It was straight out of the box.
I ended up selling the gun to my buddy and it had just over 1500 rounds through it when it had it's second failure. He then stripped it down and gave it a good cleaning, it's first cleaning, and it's back to running.
Based on this example, I would readily recommend a SCCY to someone on a tight budget that wanted to protect their family. Everyone will always say, "Just save up another $100-150 and buy XXX." Not everyone is a "gun guy" and some people just want the feeling of security of having a gun available if they need it.
This is my review on this particular gun. Your experience may differ. After I sold this one, I had seller's remorse. A couple of months later I was at a gun show and a dealer had a bunch of SCCY's and had some of the unpopular colors on sale. So, I picked up another one. It's had 500+ trouble free rounds through it and it rides in the console of my truck. Ain't it a beauty?
This week I picked up a Taurus Spectrum for $139. Tomorrow I will try it out and report back the good and the bad. Hopefully, there won't be a lot of bad but, it's a Taurus. Taurus seems to be hit and miss on their quality.
Nearly two years ago I bought a SCCY CPX-2 9mm for $175. I had read some good things about them and the main negative thing that I had read was people complained about the trigger.
When I checked out the gun, the fit and finish seemed to be pretty good. It came with 2 10 round magazines. The trigger pull was very long but also very smooth. Think of a well used S&W K frame, that's what it reminded me of. The bad part is the reset is all the way to the end of the stroke. You have to make sure the trigger returns all the way forward before firing the next round.
I decided not to clean it or do anything to it, just run it as right out of the box. I loaded up both magazines with 115 gr ball and went to the range. Here are the first 10 rounds through the gun at 10 yards.
Here are the next 10 rounds out of the 2nd magazine, also at 10 yards.
I gave it to my buddy to try and he stretched it out to 25 yards and shot both magazines through it. Here is his results.
We were closing in on 400 rounds when we had our first failure.
I cleared the jam and then put some oil on the rails and the gun went back to working. Remember, it wasn't cleaned before we started. It was straight out of the box.
I ended up selling the gun to my buddy and it had just over 1500 rounds through it when it had it's second failure. He then stripped it down and gave it a good cleaning, it's first cleaning, and it's back to running.
Based on this example, I would readily recommend a SCCY to someone on a tight budget that wanted to protect their family. Everyone will always say, "Just save up another $100-150 and buy XXX." Not everyone is a "gun guy" and some people just want the feeling of security of having a gun available if they need it.
This is my review on this particular gun. Your experience may differ. After I sold this one, I had seller's remorse. A couple of months later I was at a gun show and a dealer had a bunch of SCCY's and had some of the unpopular colors on sale. So, I picked up another one. It's had 500+ trouble free rounds through it and it rides in the console of my truck. Ain't it a beauty?
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