https://www.taurususa.com/pist...917c-9mm-18rds-black




​Finally, the finger grooves that everyone hates and nobody asked for!

Finger grooves built into the metal frame? That's tacky.

I guess Taurus' designers felt the pistol needed something for their poor man's Centurion. Aside from losing the finger grooves, they need to ditch that God-awful dot matrix engraver.

In fairness, the tooling and everything that Taurus got from beretta probably contributed to the Beretta cloned Taurus’ being generally well functioning.

I had a few and they all worked extremely well.

That doesnt save it from looking ridiculous though.

I had one years ago and abused it, using it for my ATV pistol. Often got completely filthy but functioned 100%. I felt the frame mounted safety/decocker to be a better option than the slide mounted Beretta switch.
Finger bumps and a rail? That seems unneeded, IMHO.

The finger grooves are dumb. Didn't Girsan or one of those Turkish companies recently released a 92 variant with similar, if not identical finger grooves? Is there a change Taurus is sourcing their frames from the same place? Honestly, I'm starting to wonder if a lot of companies these days aren't buying castings or forgings from Turkey and just slapping their names on them.

Here's what I'm talking about about:

https://eaacorp.com/product/girsan-regard-mc/

The rails bothers me more than the finger groves. On the plus side, no plastic and no front slide serrations.

Finger grooves...yuck. Rail...a modern-day reality. Genuinely surprised that they didn't succumb to the red dot rage. Lose the safety for a decocker-only device and hold the hammer off the firing pin (like a P-SIG) and I could maybe grow to like this.

Maybe. After all it's still a Taurus.

I actually don't mind the rail, and kinda like how they rounded off the front edge. This way it's still there if you want to mount something on it, but it's less sharp and snaggy if you don't.

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Originally posted by monoblok:Lose the safety for a decocker-only device

Some variants of the "Brazilian Beretta" are decock/safety levers (like the standard Beretta 92s) and some are sort of a hybrid "G" type where the decocker lever springs back up to the "fire" position after you decock (like the Beretta G variants... but with the additional option of a cocked-and-locked safety if you want).
Here's a video of my (older) Taurus PT100AF and PT101AF showing the two different safety/decock variants if interested https://youtu.be/dE7VEQ2rcYc?si=OGiymdORmjIJMUMO

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Originally posted by 92fstech:
I actually don't mind the rail, and kinda like how they rounded off the front edge. This way it's still there if you want to mount something on it, but it's less sharp and snaggy if you don't.

Yeah, the rail doesn't really bug me. I actually like the rail on the Beretta 92A1 etc. Especially if we're comparing to the sloped, non-railed dustcover. I prefer the straight dustcovers. I imagine they had to make a new mold or modify tooling to allow for the rail, and they figured they may as well go full ----- and add the stupid frame grooves. One step forward and two steps back.

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Originally posted by parabellum:
Aside from losing the finger grooves, they need to ditch that God-awful dot matrix engraver.

Yeah that is an atrocity. Looks like hot garbage.

What 1K said, above....

It's like the Tisas knock off of the Beretta, you know finger grooves aren't needed, even Glock saw the error of their ways