hcock 45 here we're going to look at one
of these pistols I think it's the black
one I think it's the little one one of
them we're going to shoot because you
all have been requesting the Taurus Slim
709 for a while uh probably for years
and we thought we'd get right on it a
little slow on some things but we
eventually get around to everything got
a long list to-do list of firearms and I
look forward to each and every one of
them but the tus 709 Slim is one uh
several of you requested it's a little
pistol like the lc9s the uh Glock 43 and
that category kind of The Shield but uh
what am I forgetting about but it's in
that size uh
Ballpark and it's very reasonably priced
you can probably find one for 250 275
okay all right so let's see if the thing
works we've got one here that's loaded
if I can find it yeah it's a black one
there it is got it all right let's see
if it'll shoot a 2
L oh I forgot about how strange that
trigger is yeah let's try a uh little
pot
smoking
yeah how about a
Target yeah I got two on there wow I
think they're actually in the red can
you believe that I didn't know a tarus
would do that I've not had a malfunction
with this yet I have I don't know I've
fired it 25 or 30 times I've won
magazine so so haven't fired it too much
right but enough to kind of get a little
bit of a feel for it and uh I had it for
a while but I just have one mag and I'm
going to try in this video to to put uh
500 rounds through
it so you have a week to wait on me to
do that just kidding no we'll fire some
here and we'll fire some hollow points
I'll open them up so I don't forget and
oh gosh just qu these these boxes that I
don't really like too much I forgot to
cut that open but we'll shoot some
hollow points in it and uh we'll see if
it'll fire you know what I don't think I
fired any hollow points in it yet have I
don't think I
have I'm I'm getting better at open yeah
look at that John you're proud of me
there's a few of these lying around that
I have actually bashed open I'll have to
say back through the years but I have
learned how to do it right and stay calm
and all that all right so the Taurus uh
709
Slim uh inexpensive piece of hardware
and uh it's it might be exactly what
you're looking for uh it's in a price
range you don't have a lot of money to
waste on a on a firearm you know uh you
can't afford a $600 firearm right now
this this firearm is inexpensive and I
know some of you look back at the
Highpoint video we did I had a little
too much fun in that one picking on the
high point but the the main reason I I
pick on the high point is not not
quality those things work pretty well a
lot of people say they work really well
the high points
uh it's it's that so many of their
models are are gigantic okay that's why
people we don't mean to be gun snobs
maybe we are sometimes you know the
longer you do something you you you kind
of become more you know that way I guess
you can't help it if you're into model
airplanes or cars and you're 50 years
old or you're 60 years old or you're 80
years old and you've been doing it for
40 years and you know there that's just
going to happen a little bit but uh the
biggest reason that some of us make fun
of High Point is cuz there they're big
Clunkers you know compared with other
pistols okay uh and the thing about this
though and they're not all Clunkers but
they tend to be bigger this thing is
really in the same size category let me
show you as uh let's put there's a Ruger
lc9s there's a Glock
43 here's a shield I guess the LCP is
not well I'll put it over here just for
comparison LCP is small is a much
smaller gun okay right so you can see
that so it doesn't need to be there but
these other Firearms are very popular
Firearms it doesn't get much more
popular than the shield the Glock 43
lc9s there's some I don't have but uh
you they're all kind of the same
ballpark this is the Taurus on the the
back here okay see so they're they're
kind of the same size R even thickness
yeah they're about the same thickness
and they're about the same weight the
shields a little heavier than the Taurus
the uh let's see the Glock 43 is I think
just wrot down here it's uh yeah the
tars is 19 Oz the Glock 43 is 182 buy
and large you know with empty mags so
not much difference so you're talking
about a firearm that's about the Glock
43 in size and less money all right so
like I say I I saw one for 250 somewhere
online uh today I was looking up pricing
and so you're you're talking about you
know 250 275 I think the MSRP is around
just 3 or 311 or something like that
so and it's not a big clunker all right
so if you're getting reliability out of
it then you know it's definitely worthy
of taking a look at all right it's more
attractive to me in fact I remember when
I was looking for my first small 9mm
pistols I was looking over the whole
crop of them out there about I don't
know 68 years ago 10 whenever it was I
ended up with a PM9 because I got a
bargain on one uh but I was kind of
looking at I think it was this pistol it
was the Taurus I think it was a 709 cind
they have a smaller model I don't know
but I was looking at it pretty hard cuz
I like the looks of it I remember and it
felt pretty good I was uh settling on
the stainless slide they make one with
uh you know I don't know if that's
stainless or that's if that's coated
stainless or that's regular metal but
they they make it in a brushed uh
stainless finish at least the slide and
that one looked pretty good to me and it
was one that was on my list it really
was uh but there weren't as many
competitors at the time you know the
Glock 43 wasn't out there I don't think
the shield was out there the lc9s even
wasn't out there maybe the LC9 was I'm
not sure even it was out there uh so
anyway the size and everything about it
it's not bad let's go you hollow points
uh Price is Right now it's got uh a
safety on it so you know I never use
those on these little pistols but it
does have a safety you might not like
that breaks down let's go and do that
real quick it breaks down like a Glock
you know you got the little levers there
on both sides of it pull that off and
you know nothing too unusual got your
firing pin block there and uh yep it's a
it's a taus and uh you know it's made
like a lot of these pistols are you know
looks pretty
familiar and it's been out a while so
many of you have them you own them you
fired them so share share your
experience what you have uh discovered
about them does it does it work is it
reliable kind of weird I know it's
putting a slide back on I've had it
apart several times it it it almost
doesn't want to match up but it does you
know so it it really is it's kind of a
it it it it's appears to me my biased
opinion it's kind of a a cheap version
excuse me of a Glock 43 or of a shield
yeah it does it does feel uh cheaper
okay I'm me grab a drink while you're uh
while I'm talking to you have to have a
water bottle out here but it it uh look
at my chest there it's uh it's kind of a
cheap version of it but if it works
there's nothing wrong with
that because you might want a less
expensive firearm you cannot afford a
$400 or $500 one or you want it for a
purpose where it just needs to be
inexpensive maybe a truck gun you know
the old classic line phrase you'll know
let's load it up some point and try it
out uh it's ready for plus
p and it holds seven in the
mag and what else about it uh been
around a little while like I say no big
secrets about it we're kind of late
getting to it and uh they actually have
some models out now we got the what the
tarus Spectrum some different Tauruses
that we probably should get a hold of
here before too long and try some more
of them out okay so let's see if it'll
feed a holler
point I don't know if I shot it at long
range much at all let's just try to put
a hollow point on the
gong all
right not bad I might just try a pig
little
high got
him yeah feels pretty good it has a
strange trigger it has a second strike
capability just like that Rattler in
your backyard you uh see click click
click click it will just keep firing
so if you had a bad primer you know you
could just pull a trigger again some
people really like that that's a a big
feature for some people I I I mean I
know people talk about that with
reverence uh they want I'll shoot a
couple more H points they really want
that second strike capability and uh
that's if that's important to you then
the farm is uh maybe even more
attractive okay so it fed those hollow
points try a couple more here
while we're in the hollow point mode do
we have a oh yeah we got a couple two
lers won we just do that I'm always bad
about not doing that again though
there's not that much difference in what
it does to a 2 L all right
Taurus we don't do enough tarses I have
to say I confess it's my
fault so let's put a hollow point on a 2
L boom there's one right there
try that blue one in honor of
Kentucky all right a red one who's that
in honor of
Alabama all right feels
uh oh it feels pretty good it's a
different feel on the
trigger uh you know I don't know let me
try that turkey up there for
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kicks yeah it's not a long range pistol
but I just it just feels like it's the
sights are right on and you know no
problem uh so like I said the trigger is
a little odd it's got a about halfway
back it's got a little I don't know like
a little bump you can feel it when it's
it's cocking itself yeah I guess but I
don't it's not you could get used to it
it breaks pretty far back for me that a
little bit of a negative for me yeah it
breaks way you're almost all the way
back with it before it breaks reset you
know of course it's going to reset
anyway let's see you're shooting it
though so it's going to be a little
different H it's not too bad on distance
for the reset but it's just a little
different I would uh if you're looking
at the pistol I would try at the gun
shop or the table the gun show wherever
you are uh ask them politely if you can
try the trigger especially if you're
seriously interested in it uh you know
they don't want everybody coming in
there snapping their triggers but if
you're about to buy the thing and the
trigger is the only deal killer I think
often they'll let you do that uh and
make sure you think you're going to be
able to live with that that trigger grip
is thin enough it should fit just about
anybody's hand I'll shoot you seven more
here let's see some R stuff here I'm
probably forgetting something I think I
might have forgotten to uh to remind you
what
I shot the paper Target I think I'll
just shoot that St let's just I don't
have a holster I don't have a you know
what I didn't put on an extra mag pouch
I wonder why you think it's because I
have one magazine I think I'm going to
pretend I just pulled out of my holster
and uh and I'm going to just shoot that
stop sign all right this is a defensive
firearm
so it would serve as a defensive firearm
okay it it not a bad little shooter like
I say it has not malfunctioned on me not
one time we've not had any kind of
Bobble with it again I haven't fired a
thousand times because I just have the
one magazine but you saw the hollow
points and the 124 grain American Eagle
it seems to to take it right on let me
do that one more time before it gets
dark on you and uh see if we can make it
malfunction actually I think the first
time I brought it out and I do that
quite often I uh I fire a a pistol
weak-handed one-handed you know and
weak-handed and strong-handed and
sometimes I'll even overdo it with a
kind of try to limp wrist them and that
sort of thing but I I'll fire them
weak-handed and if they don't
malfunction firing weak-handed with just
kind of a normal grip cuz you tend to uh
I think uh liess a uh semi-automatic
pistol more you're more likely to when
you're shooting at weak hand
but probably do it probably malfunction
now uh you know it just seems to
work uh not a bad little pistol
especially for the money uh so just
another another fire to consider uh you
know you we look at a lot of different
Firearms some of them are inexpensive
some are moderately priced some are
really expensive so we like to show you
a lot of different sorts of things and
and need to do more taus pistols really
there's several models that we get
requests to look at and uh we'll be
about doing that okay so the 709
Slim you know it's uh is what you saw
breaks down like a Glock and it's got a
an adjustable rear sight got a I like
the sight picture just fine three dot so
prob your one you want to check out it
uh might serve your your
purpose glad you came by tonight uh I'll
just be uh I will be what will I be
forever thankful that's what I was going
to say that you came by tonight life is
good
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