-: Welcome to the Guns and Ammo Buzz podcast.
We have Jim Tarr, again, handgun editor of Guns
and Ammo Magazine, and Jesse Harrison who's a world champion
shooter, but also a personality with Taurus.
And we are here to talk a little bit about today,
the new TX nine pistol,
which we saw introduced at Shot Show.
It's on the cover of Guns and Ammos February issue.
-: Hey, looks pretty good up there.
-: It's a beautiful cover and it was reviewed by Jim Tar.
-: Yeah. -: So Jim,
tell us a little bit about your experience real quick
with the TX nine then let's get into Jesse.
-: Well, I think it got a lot of people's attention
because it was styled like the TX 22,
which was a huge hit for Taurus.
And that was one of those surprises that, you know,
you hear about Taurus as new 22 and then you get hands on it
and it was so much better than you expected.
And half the price, yeah.
Of the, the competition.
It was, I, I think I'm one of the few people that managed
to get one of them to jam and it's only, it was only
because we were filming at gun site. Oh,
-: Of course.
-: And in, in the High desert.
And we got all the sand
and grit in the magazines, which have plastic bodies.
And then we found, you know,
it's weird if you disassemble the magazines
and dump all the gravel
and grit out of it, then the gun seems to run just fine.
Well one of the reasons why the TX 22 was so popular,
not just 'cause it was reliable, is
because the styling, the ergonomics were great
and they carried that over into the TX nine.
Now internally completely different.
Just a standard St Striker fired nine millimeter,
but ergonomics are great.
Re reliability is great.
So the TX nine was great
and Taurus is planning on it for, to be the,
the new flagship of their handgun line.
Yeah, and I mean you guys did the, what was it, the,
the 10,000 round burn down or something like that? It was,
-: It was crazy.
-: Caleb, - Caleb and Matt did the 10,000 round challenge,
which I'm kind of glad I didn't have to do that one.
-: Well, I mean, I think we've all been involved in torture
tests of guns and honestly the thing
that gets tortured the most is the people shooting them.
It's, and,
and it just, it survived with flying colors
and you probably have a lot more time
behind the design than either one of us do.
And I'm curious if they brought you in early on
for advice on ergonomics
or you shot the, the, the heck out of it
and then had some suggestions.
What was your, what was your
involvement in the backend on that?
-: So they brought Caleb, Caleb Giddings,
and myself in on it pretty early,
probably the earliest I've been brought in on a firearm
since I've been at Taurus.
So I was really excited about that.
And they had some of the prototypes
brought into the US so we went down to the factory
and we were able to go in and test fire everything.
And they wanted our like brutal, honest feedback
and we gave it to 'em.
And honestly there, there wasn't horrible feedback.
I was really impressed with the gun from the get go.
We just had some things
that would help polish it out a little better.
Things that would make it more user friendly
for our market here in the us.
So I was truly impressed with the firearm,
all three platforms, the full size compact and subcompacts.
The biggest thing I think that Caleb
and I both harped on was the trigger.
They have to get the trigger right.
We got some in that felt great.
And then we got some in that were a little subpar
and it was hit or miss out of the whole bunch.
So unknowingly, Caleb
and I both picked the exact same serial number firearm
and said, this is the trigger, you have
to make them all the same.
And when we both looked, we're like,
oh, well that's the one I picked.
So it, it was good
that we were when you were on the same page with that.
But I think with feedback from Caleb and I,
but then just our engineers anyway in Brazil
and here in the US they really worked hard on this.
I like to tell people this is, this is the love child
of the TX 22 and the GX four.
We took everything that everyone loved of both
and made a full size centier. So
-: When you were looking at the triggers, what were you
and Caleb looking for?
-: The feel one, the, the feel and the weight.
You know, we, it has to be at a certain poundage
for liability reasons obviously,
but there was,
I prefer a crisp clean break.
I don't want any mush. I don't want a lot of takeup.
And some people might say, oh,
it's a striker fire gun, you're gonna have that.
No, ours does not.
This is probably the least amount
of takeup you can feel on a striker fire
trigger in my opinion.
But I wanted, as soon as the striker was released,
I wanted no more fall.
I wanted the trigger to stop and hit a wall and break
and have like a nice solid break instead
of just continuing to pull through.
And I think that's what Caleb was looking for as well.
'cause that's what we found in one specific trigger.
And we said they all have to be modeled after this one.
So, and some of the others might have had a little more mush
or spongy feel to 'em just how strike
or fire triggers can be.
But I think they've done a really good job
with taking the one that we found that we both loved
and put that throughout the entire product line.
So
-: How are they able to replicate that
and do you feel like they are replicating it now
that they're in full production?
-: How they replicate it? I don't know.
That's, that's the magic that happens behind the curtain.
I don't get to see Oz. Right.
But I think they are every, everyone I felt that's come off
for production that we've had at Shot show
and then that, you know, we've received
and sent out to, you know, some
of our writers, things like that.
They all have had. Sure.
The triggers that, that I think are what is needed.
-: And Jim, I look back at your report,
I noticed you tested ours.
They averaged five pounds, 12 ounces.
What was your impression?
-: Well, I first got hands on these guns.
Caleb I think sent us some product,
not quite production samples.
Yeah. Pre-production samples when we, when we were filming
for guns and ammo TV at gun site.
And we were told
that this is basically how the guns are going to be.
However, these triggers weren't quite what they, that the,
what the finished product was going to be,
which you guys were aiming for about a five
and a half pound trigger bowl, if I remember correctly.
And the, the,
the breaks on these triggers were, were decent.
What both Rich Nance and I who writes for guns
and ammo, we were both shooting them.
And we found that the, the,
these not quite production triggers had inconsistent takeup.
The break was fine,
but the, the, the takeup was inconsistent
and it was throwing us off
until we learned just to muscle through it.
And then when I got in production samples to review
for the magazine, they had cleaned up that, that takeup
and the, the break on all of them was as crisp
as striker fired guns get.
I mean, nothing's gonna be a 1911,
but that's the perfection
that everything should strive toward.
And and weight was right around five and a half, five
and three quarter pounds for all of them.
Which is, and again, you could, you could make it lighter,
but for a gun that you're also advertising
and promoting toward law enforcement
and military contracts, You don't want it lighter.
You can't, you, you don't want it lighter
because you're going to be giving it to raw recruits
that have the minimal required training.
Yeah. And a little, an extra pound here or there.
It provides an a added component of safety.
-: Yeah. - While still making the gun have a good enough
trigger that if you know what
you're doing, you can shoot it. Well
-: I, I wanna continue on a little
bit about the trigger here.
When you press, it's got of course that center safety lever
that has to be pressed before the trigger can be actuated.
But when it hits that wall, it's almost a vertical 90
and it's got a almost flat face to it.
What are your guys' thoughts about the trend
that's been flat face triggers, you know,
versus a traditional arch trigger?
-: I've always shot a flat face trigger in my 19 elevens.
I prefer it.
And I don't know why, it's just
completely personal preference.
I just, I like a flat face trigger.
But I will say with the triggers in these TX nines,
because it is minimal takeup
and you have what, in my opinion is a better feel
of a trigger, you're,
it doesn't feel like it's a five and a half pound trigger.
Like if you go pick up any competing firearm
that has additional take up
and a different trigger shoe,
in my opinion it, it feels heavier.
So I that's,
I know it's just personal preference for me, but
-: Jesse, are you able to run this trigger quickly now I've
got some footage of you shooting the TX 22 and it launched
and I slow mode it so I could analyze how you do it.
Do you consider yourself a slap happy trigger type
of presser
or do you like to skillfully manipulate it rear word
and let it have a surprise break?
-: What's - Your thoughts about the whole press experience
and how does the TX nine work for you?
-: So the TX nine runs great for me.
I received it
last year towards the end of the year.
It was almost the end of my shooting season.
And then I've been in my off season,
but I'm getting ready to get back out on the range.
So I actually don't have as many rounds
through it as I would like.
But I did make sure to take it out as soon as I got it,
ran a couple hundred through it.
And I love the way it feels.
It's like you were mentioning earlier, James,
the ergonomics are, they fit great in the hand.
Plus with the interchangeable backstraps you can decide
which fit is best for you.
I have a bigger hand than most.
So I like the larger backstrap so
that it fills my hand out more.
But I like it so much that I'm actually,
actually I can't talk today,
I'm gonna take it into competition this 2026 season.
I'll shoot my first match
with it at the still challenge nationals
and then depending on how I feel
and how fast I can shoot it to talk to your point Eric,
I'll take it into U-S-P-S-A either under production
or carry optics, I'm not sure which yet.
That's gonna be more of a a me determination.
If I feel like I can be competitive enough
with it in carry optics, then I would most definitely love
to run it in that division.
But that's a tough division
because I'm not just going up against polymer frame striker
fire guns, I'm going up against, you know,
CZs and things like that.
So it's just gonna depend on my, how I feel,
my confidence behind it. So,
-: And how does this platform accept the optics?
Do you like the mounting systems?
You know, and, and Jim, did you experience it,
did you evaluate it with a, a variety of optics
to make sure footprints are pretty readily accessible
to other brands and such?
-: If I remember correctly, it uses the Toro
opti optics system, which has replaceable adapter plates,
which are Taurus has been using for a while.
So they're readily available
and allow you to use any of the,
the major footprints that are out there.
So that's, that's no problem.
And that's, that's the thing now everybody needs a pistol
that is optics ready
and if you're not offering that, you're gonna lose sales.
Even if they never end up putting a a a
dot on their gun at all.
They want the option. Yeah.
-: Does it position the optic high over the boar
or do you feel like compared
to other pistols it's it's pretty relatable
or even low to the boar? It
-: Was, it was pretty darn low.
Yeah. There's only, you know, you can only go so far
before you start getting in the way of the Stryker
and springs and, and extractor and stuff like that.
But it's pretty low.
I don't think you can quite use the iron sites
through the window of most optics because they're not tall
but it's, it's very competitive
with all the other designs on the market.
-: The other thing with it is the mounting plates
that he mentioned for the Toro,
those are thin themselves
and then the screws go
through the optic the plate into the slide itself.
So it's not a plate attached to the slide
and then the scope attached to the plate.
So it's minimal material between optic and slide
and that helps get that site down lower to the slide.
-: Do they function as ceiling plates as well then for
-: No, -: Those do, considering those optics,
-: Those do not.
Okay. The, it comes with a cap that you can remove
or you know, put on if you don't wanna
have an optic on it. So
-: We've had a really good time shooting these on the range.
Walk me through your experience so far.
All guns all the time.
A pistol's only as good as the trigger. This has a good one.
You can't learn everything you need
to know at the gun counter with one rack of the slide
or one pull of an unloaded firearm.
You gotta do the slap. You're interested in firearms.
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-: Now Jesse, I know you're 19 elevens,
you've had a personal gunsmith that is tuned up those things
to help you win your steel challenges,
your U-S-P-S-A handgun championships, the Bianchi.
Does a pistol like this
before you go into competition with it,
does it get the same treatment to it or, I wish
because of the production category I is it,
is it pretty much box stock
-: Right now?
It's box stock O obviously I'll put an optic on one
'cause I'll shoot carry optics at still challenge.
But depending, I truly want to,
I say I wish it had that kind of treatment,
but I truly wanna shoot this gun as close
to factory as possible.
One to just put to rest the fact
that Jesse hasn't shot a stock gun.
I have, I cut my teeth on stock guns
and I moved on to 19 elevens because we all do.
-: Yeah. But, -: But I,
this is the first gun from Taurus.
This is our best gun in my opinion
and I want to take it out.
Yeah. And I want to prove that with it.
So I'm gonna keep it as stock as possible.
The only thing that I might look at doing is add a magwell
and possibly polish up some
of the internals for the trigger.
And that's simply just to,
if I can get it just a slight bit lighter like Jim was
saying, then I might, but it just, it depends on if I can
do that and still keep all of the safety functions reliable.
So the last thing I wanna do is get inside
and start polishing things and have something
that's not safe to take out onto the range.
And if I can't do that then I'll be shooting
it completely stock.
-: So are you describing potentially a,
a new variation in the future?
I mean you've got full-size compact subcompact
configurations is the TX nine, do you know
behind the scenes if there are already looking at a
competition version of it,
-: I can neither confirm or deny.
-: Oh, I, I can, I can If you,
if you look in the owner's manual,
it mentions a five inch long slide version
in the owner's manual.
The, yeah so I,
I have no idea about when they might be introducing that.
But it is mentioned.
It is, it is mentioned in there as well
as I think if I remember correctly,
manual safety is at some point being an option on the guns
if I'm not misremembering.
But just
because I, I think you know,
they only wanna print one owner's manual.
So it's like here here's the things
that we maybe plan on doing down the road.
We're we gonna put it all out there that'll way we
-: Make it we're covered.
No, I think we're always trying to evolve the product
and keep it continuously growing
and what the consumers want.
So we're already looking at things
that could be a possibility.
So I won't say what
but there are, there are evolutions,
-: Well one of my favorite features about this gun are the
steel magazines and you've got sort of a, a double
to single tapered, you know, towards the feeding part,
helping the rounds go into the chamber a little smooth
and you've got capacity range from 13 to 17 rounds.
So quite a broad one.
And knowing Taurus too, I could see something with a 20
prefix to it in its future.
I'd love to see one of those as well.
So yeah and also thank Taurus for including
there was a mag loader in the one I I looked at.
-: Oh that's pretty helpful. Those things are a lifesaver.
I can't go to the range without it.
If I do I'm like okay,
it's a short practice when my mag runs out.
-: Right. Alright Jesse, well hey I asked you on here too
because I'd like to offer the people listening
to this podcast some tips and shooting.
Oh yeah. Did you have any time
to offer us a little bit of takeaway maybe?
-: Absolutely. -: I'd like to beat Jim
at steel shooting sometimes.
How can I transition target
so I'm not missing them sweeping past
my target a little bit. Can you help
-: Me out?
Yes. So one thing you can work on if you're wanting
to work on your target transitions.
So a lot of people have a tendency when they're say you're
transitioning from left to right.
Obviously we look at our first target, we break the shot,
then we're gonna look to our next target, move the gun,
your eyes go first, the gun follows.
But a lot of people will go from target focus
to target focus and I'm speaking in whole targets,
whether it's a 10 inch still play but still challenge
or it's a full size U-S-P-S-A cardboard target.
You're looking at the whole target
and what you need to focus on is
that leading edge coming in.
So if you've shot target on the left
and you're transitioning to the right,
look at the nine o'clock position of that target
that you're coming into to the right.
That way by the time everything you know from eyes to brain
to you know, okay I gotta stop the gun,
you're not overshooting it.
Also make sure that I like to use my lower body
to help control my upper body.
So if I'm not using my lower half at all
and I'm just like muscling through the gun,
then yes I'm gonna over index swing past my target.
So kind of use your lower body.
I say it kind of works as a turret
to help control your upper body movement.
That way you're not muscling all the way from your target
transitions and over indexing when you're trying
to be precise and stop dead center.
-: At what point do your sight come into your vision
and when are you ready to press that trigger?
-: So from the draw you're wanting to find
that site picture as soon as possible obviously.
And I, when I teach the draw, I tell people, you know,
you need to come straight up and then out
and that's so that you pick up that site picture right away.
If it's iron sites, obviously I can see
that site picture a lot faster
because you have a visual reference already there.
If it's a red dot, it's usually
probably about two thirds before full extension
and presentation to target.
Once I'm already like engaged on a stage,
I should see my site picture
unless I'm transitioning, you know, from one target
to the next, it'll be coming into play once I have eyes on
that target and I'm swinging in.
But for iron sites I feel like
unless I break the gun down to move, you can always kind
of see your sight picture and that's a little bit easier.
But I feel like everyone is moving towards a red dot
and that's a great question for people
that are also just learning.
When you're presenting on the draw, you are looking for
that red.as fast as possible.
That way you're ready to shoot however many hundredths
or tenths of a second faster.
And then when you're transitioning, you're,
you don't wanna keep your eyes on the.you,
like I said earlier, you're gonna look
with your eyes then move the gun.
But it should come into frame, you know, very quickly
and as soon as you see it, start working on
that reaction time of as soon as I see my red dot
start focusing and pinpointing where you want it
to be on target as opposed to looking at a target as a whole
and then just seeing a red dot flash across your target.
-: Jim, you got anything for her?
-: Oh no, honestly, I, I'm don't,
I've never moved my feet or moved my finger very fast.
So I had to figure out how to save time everywhere else
and dry fire and whatever.
And the target transition thing, the trying
to stop on the leading edge of the target, that's
how you do it because when you try
to stop on the leading edge,
by the time you actually are stopped,
you're in the center of the target.
Yeah. That, that's is, that's the the fastest way to do it.
You don't end up over swinging.
And I I,
and it's not something that you, that comes naturally,
you have to force yourself to do it.
Like, like a lot of stuff like learning how
to shoot on the move and,
and other things that just is not come naturally
and is a degradable skill that you have to practice.
-: Absolutely. Very perishable.
And like you said, it's, it's not natural
to be precise and fast.
Those two things are oil and water
and they, it's very hard to get them to mix.
So like for instill challenge, if you're shooting smoke
and hope, a lot of people have the tendency
to like shoot in between the targets.
And when I say a lot of people, I've done that myself,
I'm like myself, I'm on, it's an 1824
and I just shot in between every single one.
But that's a perfect example of a stage where you have
to be accurate, you have to be fast.
This is a sub two second stage,
but it's so easy to overing these targets.
So when I shoot still challenge smoke
and hope from the start, I'm looking at six o'clock
of the first gong 18 by 24
and then as I go left to right I'm going nine o'clock,
nine o'clock, nine o'clock.
And then when I swing into the stop plate I'm looking at
three o'clock on the plate.
So that's just like a visual,
it gives you a visual representation
of what that looks like.
-: Well you know, it's funny,
you're like how can I miss that?
It's an 18 by 24 inch plate.
I think, you know, 30 years of competition,
I think I've missed full-size poppers more than I have many
poppers because your brain is like, well I can't miss that.
It's so big and shoot faster and you
and you're, you're thinking of something else
and you're not actually aiming at the full-size popper.
Whereas with the mini poppers, you know, you have
to aim at them and it's, and it's a mental thing
and it's focus, which is so much of the game.
Oh absolutely you need get mind. Right?
-: Yep. That's 95% of it.
-: So with the TX 22, especially given it's a rim fire,
it shoots very flat is,
and I've noticed too sometimes I can be trying
to press the trigger so fast that I end up
putting too much trigger input in there
and I'm, you know, sending my rounds a little bit south.
Do you have any advice on how you can balance the speed
and accuracy with a pistol like the TX 22 for example?
I don't know about the TX nine yet.
I haven't run that, you know, in a competitive environment.
But how you balance, you know, speed
and precision with, with a pistol that allows you
to have such a flat, you know, site picture.
-: That's a great question as well.
So for 22 you, that's one of the things
that's tough is there's no recoil
and if your trigger is heavier than
the reaction
and the force you're getting back, then
you're gonna have like an opposite reaction.
So with this one, 'cause I shoot my TX 22 stock
and it took me a little bit to get used to,
'cause it does have a little bit longer trigger pull.
It's not like the TX nine.
So it took me some time to get used to, to have
that full trigger pull.
But at speed when I was first starting, I did a lot
of short strokes on my, on my trigger.
Unfortunately, I'm like, why isn't it going off?
So it just took repetitions,
it took time on the range getting used
to this platform of a firearm.
And once I did, I absolutely love it.
I I don't mind shooting it stock. It's a great trigger.
It's different than, you know, my 19 elevens obviously,
but every trigger is, and it's different than
what you're gonna see out of, you know, some
of the higher end 20 twos that you can get
that have like minimal trigger movement.
But this one's in everyone else's price range
and it's reliable, which that's like the name
of the game when it comes to REM fire.
But I would say
what I tell people when they're saying I wanna go faster,
I wanna go faster, you can't shoot faster
than what you can see.
And if I go to the range
and say I wanna shoot like Casey, I wanna shoot as fast
as he can, that's when I shoot in
between every single target on still challenge,
I won't hit anything because I can't see that fast.
Yeah. So your eyes are your speedometer,
you can work on drills that will help speed those things up.
But I learned to shoot precision first speed will follow
and that also comes from the repetitions
and the muscle memory, things like that.
So if you're wanting to like intentionally increase speed,
then I would get a timer set part-time,
whatever drill it is you're wanting to increase your speed.
If it's your draw, figure out what your baseline is,
what you can do consistently.
Do five draws in a row, take your average time,
set part-time.
If you're beating that, drop it by a 10th of a second.
Once you beat that, drop it another 10th.
And at this point when you're pushing the envelope
and truly trying to
get faster in this sense, yes you're gonna have
to forget about your accuracy
because you need to feel what it feels like to actually go
that fast to get the gun out
of the holster at a certain speed.
You, you can't worry about where your target,
where you're gonna hit on target.
Once you know what that feels like
and you can get to that point, you know, multiple times,
then you can say, okay now I need
to dial it back and I need to see my sight.
So I'm still going to physically put that effort in for
that speed, but I now need to see the site picture.
And as you start combining those components,
you will then bring your precision up to your speed
and your speed where you want it to be.
It's a, a very delicate balance though
-: Jesse.
So you talked a lot about practice.
Of course TAUs, TX nine falls in
that economical category of a firearm.
The person who might be interested in purchasing it probably
views ammunition as a commodity.
So if you've only got one box of 50 rounds
and a TX nine, how are you gonna go out
and practice with that box of ammo?
-: If I've only got one box of ammo, that is a sad day.
But if,
but I'm gonna ask all my friends for their ammo.
No, if I have, if I only have 50 rounds,
I'm gonna go to the range.
I'm gonna pick the bay that has a plate rack
and I'm going to work on plate rack drills and Casey
and I do this all the time, especially now having a baby,
our time is very limited when we go to the range.
So we will go and set up on a plate rack
and we do this drill where if it's my turn
to go first I draw and shoot a plate.
He can't do anything until I've shot
and that's his cue to fire.
You can do that from the draw,
you can do it on just on presentation.
And that helps if you're experiencing any type of like,
you know, target panic, things like that.
That's one thing that we like to do.
Or simply just drawing and shooting one plate at a time,
but put it at distance, make it hard, we'll back up
to 25, 30 yards and draw
and shoot one plate at a time and then guess what?
We're gonna do it strong hand
and then we're gonna do it weekend.
So if I've only got 50 rounds, I'm gonna be running plate,
plate rack drills like that strong hand,
weak hand freestyle, I'm gonna push back at distance.
I'm not gonna go out
and burn through my 50 rounds, seven yards from my plate.
I'm going to get zero information
and not a quality of training
that would be helpful for anything I'm working towards.
Yes, sometimes I will go burn the plate rock down,
but that's just, if I'm trying to capture content
for Instagram, if I'm going
and I'm trying to have a good quality training session,
speed is not gonna be that much of a factor.
I'm not gonna be doing bullseye,
but I'm gonna be more concerned
of focusing on seeing my site on target, seeing it
where I want it on target, not just anywhere on a plate
but a specific spot on the plate.
And then I'm really gonna be focusing on
what I'm feeling right here with my trigger finger.
One thing that Casey
and I talk about when we teach is there's multiple ways
to call a shot visually audibly.
And then right here with your trigger finger,
this is the most important right here.
So I'm gonna be focusing on what's happening here.
I want to be able to know where that shot went
and what happened without even seeing
where it hit on the plate
or if it didn't hit the plate where it went.
You know, I need to be able to call everything based on
what happens right here.
So that's what I'm gonna do.
I'm going to break it down,
do basic training on a plate rack
and I'm gonna push it back to further distances
to challenge myself and then also do
some left and right-handed shooting.
That was very long-winded. I'm sorry
-: James, Jamie, you got anything?
-: Well we, we brought her on 'cause she's the expert.
I will say though that for the,
the first 15, 20 years of my shooting experience,
I had very little money for ammo.
So 95% of my practice was dry fire.
You can do it at home.
I got a timer with set with part-times.
A lot of people hate dry firing. Yeah.
'cause it's monotonous or or boring.
But I liked it because I could, it's free challenge myself.
Try to try to go it's free and you can do it at home. Yeah.
Whenever, it doesn't matter if there,
if it's a hundred degrees
or zero degrees outside
with three feet of snow, you can do it.
It doesn't cost any money. And you could challenge yourself.
And that's, and you can do
so many things with with dry faring
and not just doing one thing, not just doing a draw,
but you can practice your reload,
you can engage multiple targets.
From the center of my kitchen to my mantle is 10 yards.
I hung up paper plates to simulate plate racks.
I hung up U-S-P-S-A targets and practiced my L pte.
I practiced everything.
And except for you can't, you know,
there's no actual recoil because the gun's not going off.
And then you do practice
that when you actually go to the range.
But you can practice so much stuff just without spending any
money at all at home and,
and figure out ways to get huge benefits from that
that are rewarding.
And you'll notice a huge difference.
-: I was gonna dry firing also.
One doesn't replace the other if,
if you can only do one yes life go live fire.
But if you, everyone can go dry fire
and it's actually going to reveal things
that you're not gonna be able to see at the
range with life fire.
Because as you mentioned, you don't have that recoil.
So that's the recoil covers up your flinch dry
fire, you're gonna see everything.
You're gonna see that dot go whoop,
you're gonna see the gun dip, you're gonna see everything.
Whereas you can't see that at the range
unless you set up a camera and record yourself.
So dry fire is extremely important.
And just a quick note to, I used to think it was
so boring too, I hated it.
But my dad instilled in me, you have to dry fire.
So I dry fire. They have so many cool
kits out there now that you can use
to make it a little more entertaining.
Like the the mantis kit where you're actually,
you're gonna have a laser cartridge, you can see
what you're aiming at and it interacts with your phone
and the app and there's games
and there's a bunch of other brands out there
and they also have virtual system, virtual reality system.
Like there's so many things out there to make dry firing,
entertaining because it's so important.
And that's okay. I'll get off my soapbox now.
-: Alright. Hey, thank you for joining us
and giving us advice and discussing the new TX nine with us.
I, I'm loving it.
You know, the TX 22 was Guns n Ammos
2019 Handgun of the Year.
I think the TX nine is a strong contender
for the award this year.
I encourage everybody to go out there and give it a shot.
It's economical, supportable, it keeps in line with
what Taurus is doing lately, making reliable, durable guns.
And Jim, thank you again for your input
as well in keeping it lively.
We'll see you next time on Guns and Animals Buzz.