yes he is. now for many here, you may not have had a bad experience but that is just because no gun manufacturer, except S&W with their glock copy, i believe the sigma has made a gun that sucks 100% of the time. i have had 2 raging bulls, my cousin has had one. i LOVE those guns. absolutely the most shootable platform for the 454 i've found. that said, i just had to go to freedom arms b/c the dang things continued to break on me. the pawl and the like are way way to small for a gun in that caliber, plus the gun locks up tight upon pulling the trigger in which the little arm tightening the cylinder by pressing on the pawl is under pressure everytime the gun fires. it will inevitably loosen and have cylinder rotating and timing problems eventually. this could be fixed in short order if they cared. they don't, they also didn't care to get my revolvers back to me any sooner than the quickest turn around time and that was 6 weeks, and like i said, that was the quickest. imho, taurus is riding the fact that most don't shoot the 454 as much as they think they do and therefore it won't break. wrong, my first was an absolute lemon, timing problems forced the gun back in the first 400 rounds, my shorter, 6.5" barrelled one kept on kicking and that one wasn't a lemon, however, about the time the first one i bought needed to be sent back a 2nd time and it honestly took almost 3 months to get it back i got rid of it. i still thought my 6.5" barrelled bull was gonna make it and chalked the first up to just being a lemon. wrong, once the probs on that one started it was non stop, after having the gun gone for months at a time only to break again after having a couple more hundred rounds run through, i'd had enough and ponied up the cash for a FA. money well spent, more accurate and with a shooting glove i can shoot it all day. I WISH the taurus was good as i loved the gun, but it will break and the bulls don't have half the probs the titanium revolvers do, that's toooooo long a topic. now i mentioned this on this forum a few years ago and was dismissed as a nut, but one by one, others began to have the same problems. heck, go to the cast performance LBT bullet website and you'll see a hunt under the gallery or hunt section and some guy took a cape buffalo and a zebra with his RB, but not before it developed problems he had to semi-fix right before his trip. btw, the same problems i'm talking about on my guns. the design is faulty, and easily remedied if taurus gave 2 cents.
on a side note, we had a taurus rep at our local range during an idpa shoot about 3 or 4 years ago. i told him about my problems with the RB and he rather than listen and say he'd pass it on to the company decided to give me a little ribbing in front of many of the shooters there. unfortunately, on the range as he was doing so, his demo RB in 454 proceeded to have the same problems and needed fixing. never seen a factory rep so red.
rugers aren't the best, but they take care of you and don't outright break. good customer service.
FA have great cust. service and they just don't break, but don't worry, if it does, they've got your back.
BFR's are good guns as well and jim has got them on the right track. the last 2 years or so and they've been really really good. somewhere b/w the ruger and FA.
or just get a reeder. good gun, good service.
just don't intend on that taurus RB being there in the next 10 years. won't happen.
