These are nice, the older Taurus 83's.
I sold this one, probably should have held on to it. It was very accurate I just didn't think I needed one at the time. I picked up an older 80 to replace it.
You can get used Taurus and Rossi's for almost nothing if you look around, a while back a distributor had dozens of security trade in 851's for $200 each, also Taurus 82's. keep scanning GunBroker, there's always stuff popping up especially with a lot of security firms dumping revolvers as the laws in some states are changing and they can have auto chuckers now.
This was the 841 I had, would love to have kept it but it was too loose. I had looked forward to getting this one too, wish I got a better one....it's about the same size as a Colt Police Positive, as far as the frame.
You might want to look for one of these too, the Astra 960. Mine was a police trade in re-import from overseas, its basically a clone of the S&W N-frame. The 960 is a .38, and there's also a .357 model in 3", 4" and 6". They don't command high prices and a bunch of them just came in. I got mine for $300. High quality gun, it has recessed chambers and really nice fitting. The action is nice, these are a bargain:) every bit as capable as a Smith, if not more so. I would like to get a couple of the .357's, a 4" and a 6" while they're still low priced. FN sold Astra revolvers as the Barracuda. Oh and don't buy an Astra Cadix, they're junk.
