I’ve reviewed a lot of Taurus firearms over the last several years, and regardless of how you feel about Taurus, the general consensus is that the Taurus is, and continues to really up their game in quality, performance and reliability of their firearms.Fans, it’s solidified that, but then it is actually bringing over a lot a lot of new fans. That has been my experience even in just the short time that I’ve been reviewing them and I’ve seen a huge changes just in that time in quality and reliability.
I have enjoyed reviewing the G3 series, it is probably one of my favorites out of their series, and when I saw that they came out with the G3 Tactical I had to give it a go, it piqued my interest because it has all the things that I look for in my pistols these days, I got a can, so I needed the threaded barrel.
My eyes, they’re getting older, and if you follow my channel you know that I like to reach out at distance, and to do that I kind of need the red dot and suppressor sights. I got my hands on one, let’s check it out and you decide what you think.
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Taurus G3 T.O.R.O. Tactical Full Size Frame 9mm Luger 4" 1G3P941TAC
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The G3 Tactical is really Taurus’s first custom variant of the G3, it comes loaded with the features that I like and it goes above and beyond the entry level budget gun that most of us are used to thinking of when we’re considering a Taurus.
So, let’s go over it, take a look at the features up close, I want to cover the breakdown and show you the re-assembly, it breaks down really easy, and then I wanna review the specs and tech.
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I wanna show you what comes with the Taurus G3 Tactical, I’ve been supper excited to get my hands on this. We’ve got two mags, we’ve got the lock, cable, we’ll have to read about this, we’ve got an extra spring here. In this pocket we’ve got all the different plates, and it’s like the other G3, basically it’s gonna allow us to put pretty much any optics on there, and then, of course, the G3 Tactical itself.
The big thing is we have suppressor sights. This one, at least that I can tell, is not screwed in, looks like it’s riveted or something, so I don’t think we have any issues with this coming off. We’ve got the threaded barrel, other than that, for all practical purposes. We have a G3, I will say, guys, the trigger on this, it’s got a huge take up, nice, crisp clean, really short reset, and we’ll measure that out, but I can tell you I’m really liking that big take up, which is great, especially for tactical, crisp clean, really short reset.
My bad because I’m just kind of assuming that you’re familiar with the G3, the breakdown, we make sure that it’s empty, we pull back slightly, these pull down, pull the trigger, slide comes off, and we are disassembled.
With any threaded barrel you’re gonna have to take off the thread protector, the barrel pops out and you are stripped, and then this pops right back in, goes right back on the slide, and we’re good to go. I love these scallops, when I’m shooting it gives me perfect placement for my thumbs, we’ve got one here for my trigger finger, we’ve got the serrations front and back, and then we have basically the optics plate or surface protector, we unscrew these and then we can put on the various plates.
Sights are all metal, they have the anti-reflective serrations, these looks really solid, guys. The gun is just comfortable in your hand, the laser etching here, for the grips, is consistent with all their new G3, all the guns, it is really comfortable, I can’t wait to get outside, let’s go.
Special thanks to Fiocchi for providing the ammo for this review, we are gonna do a torture test. I working kind of multitasking here, I’ve got a Primary Arms optic on here and I’m doing a separate review on that, so I’d already zeroed and kind of started that review, and I wasn’t sure, but the ammo showed up so we’re gonna do a torture test now and actually that’ll work for both, the optic and the gun.
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But, what I wanted to do because I got a thousand rounds of the Fiocchi, and we’re gonna try that, I wanted to make sure that the zero is for the Fiocchi, so let’s just fire of and make sure, double check that zero, using the Fiocchi 9mm ammo.
Let’s just check our group here with the Fiocchi ammo. There we go, guys, that was my first shot, cold bore guns been sitting on in a living room here for several days without being fired, and then the group came down here, and I kid you not, this is very typical with that Fiocchi ammo, I have great luck with that have get some, got some insane groups with that. Anyway, I’m just gonna leave that as is, we’re gonna go back to the CQB range and start having some fun. I might test real quick with my can on here and see if that changes our zero.
We’ve got the guide rod spring, it’s got the blue color, this is specifically for shooting with a can. What I have in it is what came with it, so we’re just gonna do some slow-mo shooting with what came in it and then I’m gonna swap out and put this in, see if I can feel any difference and see if we can see any difference.
So, what I did is I took out the guides, guide rod and the spring, this one has got a green color, but here’s the thing, the end of it is black and the one that’s for the suppressor is the tan or the brown. Let’s see if we can see a difference.
There you go, guys, the two different guide rods and springs, one for with and without the suppressor, honestly, I don’t know if I could really tell, I probably have to do more shooting. We’ll see on the slow replay if we can tell the difference, I’m gonna assume that somebody that does more shooting than I, with a suppressor, probably can tell the difference and I’m sure there’s reasoning behind it, anyway, that’s what that extra guide rod and spring is for.
Back here at my CQB range, gonna do the Taurus G3 Tactical, I’ve got Jody Hansen here with me, he’s done several videos before, he’s kind of my torture test assistant, I love having Jody out here, well, just for about anything, but especially when it comes to torture testing because we both thought we gotta shoot a thousand, two thousand rounds of ammo, and we both have discovered that really is something that’s better to share because the finger and the hands get tired and so it is good to share the tiredness of the joy with friends.
So, anyway, we’re gonna test and review this, go through it. I've also got an optic here that I’m doing a review on, you’ll have to check that out, anyway, we’ve got some time lapse going here, and we’ve got a lot of ammo, let’s get to work.
I like the trigger on that, don’t let it all the way out, the reset is crazy stupid short.
It is the Tactical and it has the threaded barrel, so let’s throw the can on and include some of those. I didn’t want to do a thousand round torture test with a can on, but let’s do some with the can.
Kicking up stuff, though, we’ll let Jody try it here, but I have a feeling we’re gonna cut that short because it’s getting goop on my optic.
The optic came off! Now, what’s interesting is the screws are still in the optic, which to me was kind of odd, but the screws seem to have been stripped or something because they fit in the holes, I don’t know, I’m kind of scratching my head here, but the screws seem to have stripped.
It’s funny because Jody and I were just talking today about another screw that broke, and my big complaint with companies that are making optics, and especially when the optics are coming from China. The weak steel that they’re using in screws, the optics themselves, are great and a lot of them and most of them pass my torture test, but I can’t tell you how many screws I’ve had stripped and break, and this is why I gripe about it, but, anyway, I got to think here.
Ok, so went back. The issue is not with the gun, the issue is with the screws, and Jody and I were talking earlier, I had issues with another optic on another gun, where the screw broke and strips and I’m gonna get on my thing here, it just really irritates the piss out of me when you get a really nice optic or nice gun or whatever and they’ve got cheap screws in the screw strip, promises with all the different stuff on my desk.
I’m not sure if the screws were Taurus’s or they were Primary Arms with the optic, but, anyway, was not having luck finding replacement screws right now at the moment, but improvised adapting overcome, so we’re gonna test out the iron sights here and shoot this without an optic because some people are gonna want to have this without an optic, with the threaded barrel and the suppressor, maybe we’ll throw the suppressor back on because now we don’t have to worry about dirtying up the optic and keep going from there.
Let’s just try it no optics!
Now we don’t have a red dot on here, so we’re not gonna turn it up, let’s go back and try the suppressor on this one.
So, just about a thousand rounds, I did take the slide off and we put some drops of oil there with a can. The can, you start getting enough carbon fouling and it starts going really slow.
I’m gonna go back and we’re gonna finish the torture test here. Got a beautiful day, it supposed to be 99-100 degrees, so it’s nice and early here. I have a new sponsor here, AAC, and want to run a little bit of AAC 9mm ammo.
and include that in the torture test, and just see how that performs with the Taurus.
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