I had a Taurus 85 few years back; I don't remember -exactly- what I did with it, but I got rid of it due to a bent crane. That is Not Supposed To Happen, normally. I also had a Taurus Tracker .44 Magnum, which I also got rid of, not due to any defects, but because it beat the ever-loving snot out of my thumb, despite being ported. Ever since, I've stuck to S&W for .357 and down, and Ruger for .45 and up, and never looked back. Smiths have better triggers (I own a 19-3 with a trigger to beat any Colt), and Rugers don't turn my hands into ground beef after a hundred rounds of "full-power" .44/.45 loads like Smith and Taurus do. As for autoloaders, Taurus, like S&W and Ruger, never "tripped my trigger." I stick with 1911s or an XD-45 for those.
That being said, I -do- have a couple Rossi rifles in the safe, and Rossi -IS- Taurus these days, so I'm not totally on the hate-and-skate bandwagon. I lurv me some 1892 lever-actions at Taurus prices.
