Went to Bud's today, they were having a sale on Taurus's..dealer cost.  Picked up a 24/7 DS compact in a .45 for $319 tag, tax, and title.  Brought it home and shot 6 rounds of my flat nose ball and it didn't hiccup, just spit them out and at 25 yds in about a 6" circle.  Not bad considering I'm not used to the Taurus trigger.  It's different.  I was pretty up on it by shot no. 4  Can't wait to shoot a bunch through it.  The flat nose stuff is the acid test, if it will eat that, it will eat liver and onions covered with lime yogurt.
If I hadn't bought a defective S&W (the fellow's going to take it back and nice about it, too) I'd a bought the full size too.  
Hot damn!