Originally Posted by teezer

good buddy owned a gun shop when these first came out, picked one up with the multi barrel option with the hopes of selling me this ( i'm thinking in the mid $400 range ) ~~~ bought a smith model 14 instead ~~~ the refinement and the quality of the smith was no comparison to the clunky looking wesson (mid seventies was probably the last run of the good S&W pistols, in my opinion)

btw ~~~ used to collect in the seventies, after the novelty of the wesson wore off, one could buy way under retail..... where the smiths were retail or more depending on the model

and back then, the taurus brand was a real cheap POS