Here in part three of our little review of the Taurus Model 66 I'm taking this
thing out to the range today and I got to say first impressions this thing is
doing really really well I'm really happy with how this thing
works first thing I did was sight this thing in and the white dots those are my
sighter holes this was out at 25 yards and then as I move this around over the
brighter background you can see the actual holes of a five-round group that I
did and you can see it's not too bad I did all this offhand no rest or anything
like that at 25 yards you can see a little bit of horizontal or the
horizontal is actually really tight and there's some vertical stringing and
really that's just gonna be from my own poor aiming there's gonna be a little
flinch in there a little trigger jerk but really that's not too shabby I mean
I've done better but definitely done a lot worse I don't think anything
happening there is coming down to the gun it's just me a little bit more
training that I need a little more trigger time you might not be able to
see this too well but the sight picture is quite nice
it's pretty easy to acquire a target with this thing and it's especially easy
with this massive sight radius to place an accurate hit on something a little
bit long for a pistol those 25-yard impacts weren't all that difficult and
really stretching this thing out to 50 hundred yards it's not really a problem
another thing that I've really been enjoying today is the the rubber grip
here of course I like a good wood grip or any of the others but this feels
really nice - it does soak up a little bit of the recoil and it makes her hand
stay in one place - I really like that as I was kind of expecting in the
initial benchtop review that I really just I love the trigger on this thing
this feels so much better than the model 607 that I originally had it's just so
light so crisp in that single action mode it really does feel like you know
it could perform very well up against Smith & Wesson or Colts or any of those
another thing that I was kind of expecting in the the bench top review I
was expecting for there to be a bit more muzzle jump just because this thing is
lighter in weight has less mass has less mass out on the barrel in particular and
it doesn't have the the compensators upfront so yeah I am noticing that this
thing is kicking up quite a bit more I mean it's not huge is definitely
manageable but I can tell a difference mostly in my thumbs that I have right
along the side there when I'm firing when this thing jumps then comes back
down it's just beating that thumb pretty good I might as I come up with a new
grip another interesting thing that I really wasn't expecting my old speed
loader for the model 607 is not work in here at all
it's a seven round cylinder but this just does not fit and most of it
has to do with the grip if you can see right there it's just coming up against
the grip and the cylinder is so close to the frame that there's no way to get
this thing in there I don't know if they make one specific for this gun I really
don't know how I could get a speedloader in this tiny little space just because
everything's smaller on this than this 607 but we'll see the pills that I'm
putting through the Taurus model 66 today these are custom loads at the front
we have 125 grain Ranier lead-safe plated hollow-point bullets backed up by
a 22.3 grain charge of 300 MP from Alliant things are moving out pretty
fast they they're clocked at 1446 feet per second and that's my own
chronograph that I used on that that's over a hundred feet per second faster
and ten grains heavier than my standard a nine millimeter load now I've watched
a little Top - and I've kind of realized some things about those of us
in the community that own firearms and you know from that show I've gleaned
that we're not really interested in the facts and figures like you know how long
a barrel is what the sighting radius is how fast the bullet leaves the muzzle
all that kind of stuff what we're really interested in is relationship and I'd
like to kind of bring that into my videos a bit more so what I'd like to do
is introduce this first character
and we're gonna see how the relationship between it and this goes I think we
should see some sparks fly by way of contrast how does a 9-millimeter
hollow-point fair okay that comparison was useless
I couldn't have drawn a piece of paper between those two that was an incredible
mess from both of them I gotta say a 9-millimeter is pretty impressive but if
you want that little extra oomph and 357 Magnum get that little bit of extra
speed a little bit extra mass behind those things and you can really cook
those loads so that they are booking round here it's even legal to use for
deer kind of cool here are my parting thoughts on the tourist model 66 I think
this is really just a great little revolver and I'm very grateful that
Taurus sent this to me as a replacement for that 607 I'm really
looking forward to using this over the years and at some point I will do
you know kind of a long-term review on this just to see how it's doing make
sure that in everything's still accurate everything's running I really expect
that this thing is going to break in nicely you know as it is everything's
coming along pretty well just a little bit of fit and finish on some moving
parts like the cylinder those will wear in and I'm really thinking that this is
going to be a fantastic piece
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