Taurus Millenium series PT 145 Pro

[ryanek9freak]

I was looking for a CCW gun that was inexpensive, yet well made, and that I wouldn't be crying into my pillow over dropping or whatever, and this Taurus fit the bill.

I paid $430 new, came with 2 10 round single stack mags. It's chambered for .45 ACP (I won't carry any less) and is the size of most 9mm sub compacts. I don't really care for striker fired pistols, I prefer external hammers with de-cockers (I.E, Sigs, FN's etc..)however, most pistols with these features are very expensive. SO I settled, as the Taurus, in additon to a firing pin block, has a manual thumb saftey.

The only thing i really hate, is when cocked, ready to fire in single action, the trigger pull is rediculously long (probably another "just in case" safety feature) to the point where, when I first fired it, I thought it wasn't cocked, and I re-racked the slide. Turns out, it fires at almost the complete rearward section of travel. IT's a little odd at first.

Cool thing, is that this gun has Taurus's second strike capability. If a round fails to go off, I can fire the gun in double action (just like a revolver) to try to strike off the primer again, a feature I really like, you never know what will happen. No Tap, Rack, Bang there.

In short, it's a great gun for a great price, fit and finish is suberb, recoil is very manageable, and anyone who's familiar with a Glock will recognize the internals when taken apart (it has remarkable similarities to my Glock 22)

Here's a pic http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...T145B_back.jpg

Ryan

[glock21]

i like them, i had the pt111 in a sub com 9mm it was a awsome truck gun till i sold it, alot of people bashed me for having it, for the price you cant beat it, it did what it was made to do with no jams.

[ryanek9freak]

That's kinda why I bought it. Something reliable, cheap and something I could kick around in my truck, without giving a shit. ANd honestly, it's not a bad looking gun either. At least it's not a Hi-Point LOL.

[BadShot]

Had a PT145 for a long while, it was my CCW for most of that time. The two best things I did for it was to add some Williams Fire Sights to it and stipple the grip. Note on Stippling, the material is lighter than a Glock's polymer, so you have to run a hotter tip and go a bit slower so you don't punch through to the mag well.

Just ask Steve how it likes it, he bought mine! Well better yet, ask his better half how she likes it, as I understand it, he doesn't get to shoot it

[Irving]

Ryan, how has this gun been treating you so far?

I have a cousin that had a Hi-Point .45 that he loved to death. He went and bought a Millennium Pro .45 and went on and on about how much he hated it. He said the sights were way off. I never got a chance to shoot either one, so I don't know what was going on.

Anyway, I ask because I've heard less than stellar reviews of the Millennium Pro series, but I still want one.

[BadShot]

Tons of complaints about the Heine Straight 8 sights on most Taurus guns. I never really got the hang of them, just ended of changing my POA when using it. That might have been the issue your cousin had.

[PSS]

I owned a Millennium Pro 145BP for about a year until I could sell to someone else. Couldn't get over the crappy trigger. If I would concentrate on each shot and slowly squeeze the trigger then it would shoot nice groups. If I tried to run through a mag shots would be all over and around the target. Trigger was supposed to be DA/SA but it felt like DAO only.