The good news is that upgrades are easy, since the front sight is attached with a threaded tenon like the front sight on a Glock, and the rear can be drifted out of its dovetail after loosening a single setscrew. It’s just white paint-nothing fancily fiber optic or radioactive-but that’s to be expected in an aggressively entry-level-price pistol. The sights, like those on the G2, feature three white dots from the factory. The nose of the slide is nicely beveled to more easily find its way into holsters.
Out toward the muzzle end, however, where the G2 has deep scallops along the top edges of the slide, the G3 features a more conventionally contoured top and a set of five forward-angled cocking serrations of the same pattern as the ones at the rear. The differences between the new pistol and its progenitor start at the top, with a slide that is obviously a stretched version of the G2, down to the shape and contour of the cocking serrations. Strictly speaking, it’s probably more accurately described as a compact, with its 4-inch barrel and 15-round, flush-fit magazine, dropping it squarely into Glock G19 territory. The result is the new G3, which is marketed by Taurus as a full-size pistol. So, in a reversal of the normal process, Taurus took its very successful G2 and gave it the stretch treatment. The top of the slide is unadorned, while the slightly sculpted backstrap incorporates a lightly textured area.A trigger safety blade doesn’t seem or feel strange anymore.Dual, nested recoil springs, a necessity in the smaller pistol, work their magic in the G3, too.Similarly, unless the competition you’re shooting in has a special division for subcompacts, it’s discouraging to try and compete with one in most action-pistol games.Īs with other double-stack, polymer-frame pistols, the weight is in the steel slide and the loaded magazines the frame is practically weightless Thing is, a subcompact pistol in a service caliber may be a dandy concealed-carry, personal-protection appliance, but it’s rarely the sort of gun a person would take to the range to while away an afternoon of target shooting. Launched in the early twenty-teens as an evolution of Taurus’ Millennium line, the very attractive price point and compact size of the G2 ensured it would move well on the gun counters of America. The G2 has been a tremendous sales success for Taurus.
The G3 from Taurus is basically the company’s G2 subcompact after a growth spurt. The pistol on these pages is something of a rarity in the industry, since it’s the result of movement in the other direction. (Not to be confused, of course, with the 1903 Pocket Hammerless.) 38 ACP to make the Model 1903 Pocket Hammer. The earliest one I can think of on this side of the pond, at least, was Colt cutting the barrel length down on its Model 1902 Commercial. Gun manufacturers have been chopping down duty-size semi-automatic pistols to make them smaller and more concealable for about as long as there have been duty-size, semi-automatic pistols to chop.
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