Those bastards Ian and Karl are at the SHOT show right now, being wined and dined and handed free ammo to ‘check out this latest gun!” I hate them so much…
But here’s a bit of possibly interesting video to come from it. This time last year we were all laughing at the ridiculous Taurus Curve – This January Ian and Karl get a chance to put some rounds through one, and come away not really laughing.
I lived in California too long not to appreciate the charms of a hideout piece that will truly disappear under a shirt, for times when concealment really matters which in California is every time. Lots of people go to sub-.380 subcompacts, which helps make you safer from cops but less so from everybody and everything else. The Curve is an attempt to do something about that problem that’s a little out of the ordinary. Karl points out, fairly, that Americans are sort of hardwired to hate that sort of thing at first. He thinks the Curve may demonstrate the rule that innovation isn’t automatically bad.
Ian points out that Karl’s semi-positive analysis disregards the Curve’s “remarkable” trigger…
I found it interesting that they were able to make a usable video despite the shooting going on all around them.
I got a giggle out of how the little pistol “disappears” when worn IWB-appendix . . . snug against Karl’s somewhat “round” abdomen, under some relatively bulky garments.
Given similar garments, Karl could similarly “hide” a 1911 in that position.
😉 😉 😉
I don’t see anything about that gun that looks “curved.” What am I missing? It hardly looks like a gun at all. 🙂
ML, the whole left side of the gun itself is curved.
http://www.taurususa.com/whats-new-the-curve.cfm
Since I’m a southpaw, it ‘s not meant for me.
Ok, I can see it from that picture. I remember now. Whatever people want, of course. Was thinking the curve was the other direction and couldn’t see how it would shoot if the barrel was curved. Silly me. 🙂 I’m not sure how a curve in that direction would help anything for CC. I carry a large XD 9mm at my waist and I have no problems concealing it if I choose to do so. Such is life. 🙂 But then… here nobody faints or tries to arrest me if it happens to show for some reason.
Sure glad there are so many different guns for different people. 🙂
Honestly we mock them, but I’ve been pretty impressed with both Taurus and Chiappa for trying new things with the Curve and the Rhino.
One thing I’ve always liked about Taurus is they are willing to make some things other makers wont. Joel’s Tracker is a great example. Find another 4″ double action 44 mag for two pounds from another manufacturer, new for under $1000. It ain’t easy. Are they heirloom showpieces? no, they are shooting guns.
I own a sum total of three Taurus firearms, my favorite firearm is made by them.
My modest collection includes all the usual candidates, Savage, Remington, Marlin, Mossberg, as well as a few of the common and uncommon imports Fausti, Browning, Beretta, CZ.
They are willing to do some things other makers aren’t, and take chances others won’t, in search of finding what the consumer actually wants…
Never shot a curve, seems intuitively odd, but still different doesn’t mean bad, it doesn’t mean good, it just means different.
I carry a Glock .45. Or a .40 of the same make, and sometimes a Ruger .357. Just for shits and giggles sometimes all three. Because I can. I have a Taurus, I wouldn’t carry it for love or money as long as anything much else was available. It failed me before I got the first shot off. In fact, the first time I tried to chamber a round, it locked up because the firing pin spring broke leaving the pin to protrude past the breech face about every 10th time you cycled the slide.
It’s been fixed. A lifetime warranty is cool. I just can’t get to trusting that pistol again, there’s no warranty on the street. I’ve now seen to many problems with the Taurus firearms out there.
*too many….duh.