TAURUS G3 9MM PISTOL REVIEW FULL

And with this material, Taurus has applied a pattern of stippled patches right where your hand or hands would be making contact. The material is polymer, yes, but it’s a relatively hard formulation with very little flex to it.

The rest of the frame is an interesting bit of engineering. Plus, if you back up to the slide for a moment, you’ll find the expected striker-blocking safety internals. The trigger has a safety lever in the center of its face. The sights are low-profile, three-dot, and I have to imagine that if those don’t do it for you, aftermarket sight-makers are ready to provide you with whatever night sight options you desire. It’s a witness hole, so you can see the rim of a cartridge in the pistol’s chamber. And, for those who have to have it, there’s a loaded chamber indicator up on top of the chamber. The ejection port is large, and the extractor is external, robust and sculpted to be out of the way of your hands or exiting brass. Taurus didn’t stipple the whole thing-just the places where your hands bear down. The stippled panels on the G3 provide a nonslip grip. Alternatively, you can opt for a matte stainless slide-more choices right there than the Austrian gives you. You can have a blued slide, which is nitro-carburized for a corrosion-resistant and extremely hard surface. There are cocking serrations fore and aft, but they’re not the holster-shredding kind rather, they’re restrained and low-profile.

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TAURUS G3 9MM PISTOL REVIEW FULL

Coming from a time when a 5-inch Government model was full sized, modern 9mms seem a tad short to me, but this is what the world is. Starting with the slide and barrel, the Taurus G3 has a 4-inch barrel, which is considered “full sized” in the modern world. Hence, the Taurus G3-the successor to the G2. As a result, Taurus took the framework of the G2 and expanded it. While a lot of people are quite happy with a 9mm with a stubby barrel and a baker’s dozen of rounds onboard, others want a full-sized pistol. One that stood out and found wide acceptance was the G2c, a compact pistol with a double-stacked magazine.

Starting with license-made clones of the Beretta 92, it branched out to striker-fired pistols and produced a veritable catalog of models and variations. Taurus has been working diligently to produce the pistols that consumers wanted. It locked open when empty, magazines dropped free, it never failed to go bang! when asked to, and when I was doing my part, the plates got hammered. I could make it stop by pressing my thumb against the slide, but big deal-I can do that with almost any pistol. No, I couldn’t make it malfunction shooting one-handed, no matter how much “limp wrist” I gave it. Once I got into the groove and was building skills (and burning ammo), I tested the Taurus G3 some. So, why not? After I’d done my due diligence and tested all the others, I parked myself at the G3, pulled up a carton of ammo and hammered the plate rack. I had a big match coming up in a few weeks, and they wanted us to put the firearms through their paces. The G3, or at least a pre-production prototype of it, was there for all to hold … and shoot. It was at a writer’s event in Florida some months ago. That’s what I was thinking when they finally let us see the new Taurus. Every time we gun writers receive a new polymer-framed, striker-fired pistol, we wonder, Is this one the Glock-killer? Let’s be clear about what the world is: The “big dog”-the one everyone has been going up against for a long time-is Glock. Steller price compared to nearly any other polymer pistol out there.Three words: Second-Strike Capabilities.Aggressive grip texturing that grabs you when you grab the pistol.Stiff polymer frame, enhancing pistol’s overall accuracy potential.Utter reliability, able to cycle through different ammo without a hitch.With a bevy of performance-enhancing features, the Taurus G3 might just be that pistol. The shooting world has been waiting for a gun that can stand up to Glock.

Taurus g3 9mm pistol review