 Hey there friends, thanks for checking in after age now today. We're looking at the new Taurus Defender 856 ultra light a new release from Taurus. It was Highly requested they featured it at Shacho. They are Producing them now and getting them out there. They should be available I would think fairly soon, but let's take a few shots and then we'll talk more about this 850 nice Try double action And there it is The main difference with the 856 Defender is that it comes with a three-inch barrel that many people wanted the original 856 or the Taurus 85 Has a two-inch barrel. This has the three-inch barrel and a front night sight. It's a Marigold night sight It does have an orange outline in there So they are day night sights a tunneled rear sight All right does have a notch in there to give you a a point of aim with the orange Night sight six rounds in the cylinder This one has a Hogue rubber grip. They also make one with an ultimat grip. Okay, which is wood and a VZ G10 grip This one is considered the matte black Revolver, okay, I'm not sure if the camera will pick that up But the the barrel and the crane and the cylinder are seracoded tungsten gray So they come in different models They also have a black model with various grip options and that's pretty Consistent with Taurus is to give many different options, but here it is the ultralight model It was highly requested and I'm happy to have this in my hands now the double action trigger pull is A heavy pull as we would expect pretty common I would guess around 12 pounds and then a single action trigger pull I'm measuring right around six and a half pounds maybe a little bit heavier with the single action But the MSRP and this is 429. It's yet to be seen what they are actually going to be selling for But it offers many things that Taurus fans wanted and that's a a larger 38 special a plus P rated by the way with a three inch barrel other than that It's pretty similar to the Taurus 856 other than it is Two ounces heavier. Okay, so you're looking at 17 and a half ounces unloaded 20 and a half ounces Loaded with six rounds of 38 special to check it out Let me go ahead and load it back up and we'll check out some of those plus P loads Here we have 158 grain hollow point wide cutters. These are plus P rated. Let's see how The defender 856 handles these double action. I can feel a bit more of a punch, but not too bad Handled it quite well. I like those six rounds We've got the defender 856. Let's take a few more shots nice Nice revolver. I think Taurus did a nice job and What they often do is offer many different Models of the exact same gun and that will be the choice. This one. I already mentioned the MSRP is 429 I would guess in the mid 300s You'll be able to get the defender 856 ultralight seven and a half inches overall length spurred hammer and 20 and a half ounces loaded with six rounds of 38 special and it is plus P rated nice revolver It's got the three inch barrel and the night sight and I think that is a game changer from the snub nose pocket carry 856 if you like videos like this, please subscribe and share. I always appreciate the thumbs up button Thanks for watching and you guys be safe