About That Curved Gun

So everybody is talking about the New Taurus Curve

So I’ll first start with my first, and most optimistic opinion. The gun kinda looks like a hip flask. I have a few flasks in my liquor cabinet, and have even dropped one in my pocket for situations where that was legal and socially acceptable, and that slight curve to the flask body means it carries well and doesn’t print much at all.

So yeah, Taurus might be onto something with this idea.

But yeah, it’s Taurus. It’s a DAO hammer-fired gun, so you can expect the patented “Pulling a piano down a dirt road with your finger” trigger, and super shoddy quality control that will have some guns leave the factory as amazing examples of the design, and others completely non-functional, and require warranty work that may or may not fix the problem on the first, or second trip back to Florida.

Also it’s a micro .380…a gun platform that most find hard to complain about comfort of carry or concealability. I suspect there will be glowing reviews from all the usual suspects who dig deep to praise T&E guns that they KNOW are terrible, but also don’t want to be cut off from the company that comes out with a radical new gun every quarter. Still, for all their talk, what does this gun gain from the run-of-the-mill LCP or similar? If it was a bigger, and more powerful gun we might be looking at something more interesting, but right now it seems to be answering a question nobody asked.

What do you lose from the conventional micro .380s? Well sights, that’s a big one.

Also looks like they took the Magazine design directly from the S&W Sigma .380, because that was such a good design….

Last, there appears to be two radically different prototypes, but one looks like the barrel is contoured into the curved front-face of the slide, meaning the top of the barrel is shorter than the bottom. I can’t imagine this would be good for accuracy.

So yeah, those are my thoughts, what are yours?

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8 Responses to About That Curved Gun

  1. bluesun says:

    My thought: “Gimmick.”

  2. Miguel says:

    Unless they come out with the same quality control as the Remington R51, they are gonna sell like Ecstasy on a Saturday night in a Miami Beach corner.

    A small concealable gun that has both laser & light that may sell for $350? And looks like some futuristic thing fro a video game? Judge part 2

  3. Joe in PNG says:

    Note also they have to thicken the slide to curve it. I’ll pass. For roughly the same money one can get a S&W Bodyguard .380 with integral laser, real sights and a real mag catch, all in a package that’s crazy tiny and thin.

  4. Stuart the Viking says:

    I have read elsewhere that the barrel has a recessed crown, so the end of the barrel is really somewhere inside and what you see is just an extension. Not sure if that’s enough to totally mitigate the accuracy issue, but it’s at least something.

    That said, I still think this pistol was designed for only one purpose… To make money for Taurus. Someone MAY find it to be “Just the Ticket” and therefore go armed when they otherwise wouldn’t. Yay for them. As for me, I’m a big dude and can comfortably conceal a quality, full size pistol. If I needed something more concealable than that, there are hundreds of smaller quality pistols that would fit the bill that actually… you know… have sights and stuff. Why would I want to bet my life on a gimmick design from a company that is sometimes a little lackadaisical when it comes to quality control?

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    • Weerd Beard says:

      Or better yet it will get somebody to buy their first carry gun, and learn it’s faults and then buy a BETTER gun.

      How many people do you know who’s first gun was a Hi-Point or a Sigma?

    • Kermit says:

      By no means at all am I a “big dude,” yet at 5’6″, 145lbs, I can and have successfully concealed full-size pistols ranging from the 1911 to a CZ 75.

      This “Curve” is a gimmick, and hopefully one that’ll be incredibly short-lived.

  5. Wally says:

    Hey, it’s a Taurus. What did they do right? Realized their customer base doesn’t include educated gun buyers.

    They came out with a curved pistol for all those folks who aren’t able to get a halfway decent pocket holster.
    This is where I’d blatantly mention Don Hume’s outstanding pocket holsters that conceal amazingly well. I know I’ve made it through a few patdowns with one…

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