![]() ![]() The grip area has thumbrests on both sides. And I especially like the contouring of the frame. The front of the slide and the sides of the slide ahead of the ejection port are beveled for easy holstering. Other good features of the G3 include the three-slot accessories rail on the frame, grasping grooves at the front and the rear of the slide, and the flat-top slide. The magazine bodies are metal, and they have removable polymer baseplates and polymer followers. Taurus also makes the G3 available to customers with two 10-round magazines or two 15-round magazines. Speaking of magazines, my G3 came with a flush-fitting 15-round magazine and an extended 17-round magazine. I prefer a mechanism that will fire with the magazine out, especially if it’s a self-defense gun, just because I can foresee a situation in which the magazine could get dislodged and possibly ejected with a round in the chamber and just maybe that round might save somebody’s life. A lot of semiautomatic pistols these days will not do that. The G3 also can be fired with the magazine removed. It’s a great capability for a self-defense gun. As anyone who has done a fair amount of shooting knows, sometimes with a repeat strike, the round goes off. That means if a round fails to go off the first time, after reset, the trigger can be squeezed again quickly. Relating to the trigger system, unlike other striker-fired pistols, the G3 has repeat-strike capability. The grip also has thumbrests on both sides of the grip. Texturing is applied to the polymer grip in six panels on the polymer grip frame: one on the frontstrap, one on the backstrap, and two on each side. The reset was not the shortest I’ve experienced, but it wasn’t the longest, either, and it was audible. Take-up was long, but the break was crisp. My sample’s trigger broke at 6.0 pounds on average for five measurements with my RCBS trigger pull scale. A lot of striker-fired pistols have sloppy, heavy trigger pulls. A striker-fired mechanism usually requires stiffer springs for reliable operation, and as a rule that makes the slide more difficult to rack.Īlso unlike a lot of other striker-fired guns, the G3’s trigger pull is pretty good. One surprising-and pleasant-characteristic of the G3 is that unlike other striker-fired pistols, its slide is easy to rack. When a round is chambered, the cartridge case can be viewed through the top of the barrel’s chamber, providing visible verification that a cartridge is loaded in the chamber. The frame has “Taurus Memory Pads” above the trigger guard on both sides for safe positioning of the trigger finger.Īnother safety feature of the G3 is the loaded-chamber view port. The G3 has a standard non-ambidextrous thumb safety located on the left side of the pistol. Levering it down allows the pistol to be fired. Moving it up engages the safety and prevents the trigger from being squeezed all the way as well as preventing the slide from moving rearward. It is not ambidextrous, but it is positioned for easy access with the thumb of the shooter’s right hand. Yet another safety system is the manual thumb safety located on the left side on the slide. When the trigger is squeezed rearward, the striker block is pushed away from the striker. It keeps the striker from moving forward unintentionally-as in a drop or a hard impact-and accidentally striking the primer. I much prefer the wider trigger safety lever of the G3.Īnother safety feature of the G3 is the internal striker block. The unique thing about the G3’s trigger safety is that it is noticeably wider than other such trigger safeties. Like other similar trigger safeties, the G3’s is designed to prevent the trigger from being squeezed unless the shooter’s finger has fully engaged and depressed the trigger safety. The sample pistol had a good trigger pull, averaging 6.0 pounds over five measurements with an RCBS trigger scale. The G3’s trigger safety is similar to others of this style, except the lever is much wider than most. But first I want to point out the safety features Taurus has built into this pistol. The new striker-fired G3 pistol has all the features most handgunners demand in this type of gun, and I’ll get to a detailed description of those features in a moment. Plus, they perform as well or better than a lot of similar-size pistols that cost twice as much. They were introduced in 2013 and upgraded in 2018 and have earned a good reputation for being easy to carry and easy to shoot. For anyone who doesn’t know, the G2 and G2c guns are compact pistols. The new G3 is a full-frame semiautomatic pistol, and as such, it takes the popular Taurus G2 to the next level. It’s the next generation of Taurus G-series pistols. With a matte-black steel slide, three-dot sights, a polymerframe, a 4.0-inch barrel, and a trigger safety, Taurus’s new G3 9mm semiautomatic pistol might not sound like anything new, but it is.
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