...which was made at pretty much the all-time rock-bottom level of Colt's quality control, in their entire history.
Even SAAs were blowing chunks around then, which is why USFA in particular had the opportunity to blow their doors off.
Colt QC has *almost* caught back up to USFA in single actions so if they re-introduce the Magnum Carry today there's a good chance it would work well.
Anyways. I'm firmly in the "don't buy Rossi/Taurus" camp. They're just...not good guns. You can't always trust the metallurgy...and that is damned near the WORST thing I could ever say about a
gun.
You can trust Ruger's metallurgy, 100%. When they do screw up, which isn't as common as the Brazilians, it's a machining error rather than metallurgy. Freedom Arms revolvers are the best on the planet, all cast by Ruger (at their Pine Tree Castings division) and then machined at Freedom Arms to higher tolerances than Ruger does. So you pay three times as much...but on the flipside, basic reliability of the metal in a Ruger is the same as a Freedom Arms (or Magnum Research BFR or any number of other companies).