You never know what level of performance you can expect out of a value-priced handgun, and it’s always nice when you’re pleasantly surprised this was the case with the G3. THEN you pull the trigger on a confirmed empty chamber and push the slide forward off the frame. The third step with the G3 is to lock the slide to the rear (so you can do a chamber check), then depress the Glock-like disassembly latch and release the slide catch. Great performance-especially considering the pistol’s seriously-reasonable $345.23 sticker price. HoneyBadger load, our test pistol printed this 1.58-inch, 5-shot group at 25-yards. The second step with a Glock is to pull the trigger, which is fine if you’re savvy enough to know to do a chamber check first. The next step is to lock the slide to the rear, which permits inspection of the chamber. The first step is to drop the magazine, same as a Glock. With the G3, disassembly is very similar to that of a Glock with a couple of important exceptions. I can and do live with those issues, but new or casual shooters shouldn’t have to. My intimate familiarity with the Glock platform has contributed to my overlooking-or maybe just accepting-what many would view as limitations, such as having to pull the trigger without a mandatory chamber check to disassemble it and having no second-strike capability in case of a failure to discharge. Unlike most striker-fired pistols, in the event that the first pull of the trigger does not ignite the primer, the G3’s trigger gives you second-strike capability. With the exception of the smallish mag-release button-which was our sole (and relatively minor) gripe with the G3-the controls are well placed/sized. And then there’s the restrike capability-a major advantage in case of a failure to ignite on the first hit, which, if the second strike is successful, beats the hell out of having to rack the slide to chamber another round. To coin a new trigger description, it’s like a “double-action-only striker fired” trigger. After some practice, you quickly get used to this unconventional pull, and it is not objectionable at all. Another 1/4” or so of travel at about a 4-pound pull weigh results in a predictable and fairly clean break at an aggregate pull weight of approximately 6.5 pounds. After a roughly 3/8-inch take-up at about a 3-pound pull weight it hits a hard wall. While the trigger includes a Glock-like center trigger safety, its pull is decidedly non-Glock like. The matte-black, stainless-steel slide includes a loaded chamber indicator, fixed front and windage driftable white 3-dot sights, external extractor/ejector and front and rear slide serrations, and houses a 4-inch barrel with double captured guide rod and recoil spring. Grip traction is excellent, with front and rear straps and side panels sandpaper textured in the equivalent of about 120 grit-not so sharp as to sting under recoil, but more than enough to prevent the gun from turning in your hand. Magazines eject forcefully with a bit deeper press than we’d like. TAURUS G3 9MM FULL SIZE MANUALThe new Taurus G3 is currently offered in three models-all identical except for magazine capacity: two 10-round magazines, two 15-round magazines, or the model we tested, which includes one 15-round magazine and one extended 17-round magazine with a contour-matched polymer sleeve to fill the gap.īuilt on a matte black polymer frame with pronounced ambi thumb rests and a 3-slot Picatinny rail molded into the dust cover, it includes left-side mounted slide catch, manual thumb safety and smallish magazine release. Priced at a sticker smashing $345.23, the new Taurus G3 polymer-framed, striker-fired pistol is currently offered in three models which are all identical except for magazine capacity: two 10-round magazines, two 15-round magazines, or one 15- and one 17-round magazines (tested). Proven performance and can’t-be-beat value now in a full-size footprint
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