BE VERY CAREFULL WITH THAT GUN!!
Larger bore pistols are extremely addicting! Next thing you know, you will be looking for a 44 mag, and after that you just wont be able to understand why everyone doesn't own a .500 smith! great purchase, hope you enjoy it!
Honestly man, it looks like a pretty heavy frame to me! I dig it!
Looks good man ....Congrats !!!
As a former life-long wheel-gun guy this would be my recommendation:
1) GP100
2) SP101
3) PRE-LOCK S&W 686
I can't recommend Taurus to anyone. At their best they are cheap medium quality knock-offs of much better guns. At their worst they are low quality pieces of JUNK. My first handgun was an M85 5-shot .38. A couple of the cylinder charge holes were so over-bored that I was getting severe key-holing at 21 feet!
Of course the life-time warranty fixed it but at that point I had lost all confidence in the gun. Confidence in your gun is fairly important in a carry piece. I had a similar thing happen with a .45 Colt Anaconda! You wanna talk LET DOWN. That is a VERY EXPENSIVE GUN to have out of spec charge holes! I wasn't happy but Colt's legendary reputation for quality allowed me to file this one under "odd anomaly"....Taurus's reputation does NOT allow for that kinda "2nd chance" leeway.
Well the older S&Ws were just better in many ways....not the least of which is the nice flash-chromed trigger/hammer pieces from the 80's.