Taurus GX4

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Taurus has thrown its hat in the ring with the other double-stack microcompacts. 3” barrel, 4.4” tall, 1” wide, 18-oz weight, 11-rd capacity, and Glock-format sights.

Is anyone interested? The failure rate my shop saw with the Spectrum and Curve was very high, but the TCP seemed to hold up as well as the Bodyguards and LCPs. Do you plan on checking out the GX4?

TFBTV Announcement Video

Edited to add (saving you eight minutes): not optics ready, does not come with a spare mag or baseplate with a pinky extension, and the press sample provided to TFB had a rear sight that drifted out of its dovetail under recoil.
 
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With Sig suing Springfield over the Hellcat 15rd mags, I can only wonder if we’ll be seeing more lawsuits from Sig in the near future
 
The patent claims on at least one of the patents are a little vague... they seem to be based on a double stack magazine tube's outer dimensions and the concept of a staggered-stack mag where three-to-four top rounds are narrowed into a single-stack column (which means there may be something unique about the follower design), and also a claim for a magazine extension that attaches tongue and groove to the bottom of the magazine tube.
 
JRV said:
The patent claims on at least one of the patents are a little vague... they seem to be based on a double stack magazine tube's outer dimensions and the concept of a staggered-stack mag where three-to-four top rounds are narrowed into a single-stack column (which means there may be something unique about the follower design), and also a claim for a magazine extension that attaches tongue and groove to the bottom of the magazine tube.
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Isn't that what glock does?
 
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I don't think these will be as popular as the G3, with the usual Taurus crowd, due to the lack of an extended magazine. They want/need, 15, 17, 33 rounds.

But I am sure I will see at least a few of them, in the property room. ;) Regards 18DAI
 
18DAI said:
I don't think these will be as popular as the G3, with the usual Taurus crowd, due to the lack of an extended magazine. They want/need, 15, 17, 33 rounds.

But I am sure I will see at least a few of them, in the property room. ;) Regards 18DAI
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Maybe not, until they introduce it in fotty. 😂
 
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At $200-250 the G2c was a good value. At close to $400.... you're into regular gun pricing range. Not sure it's there considering how much internal wear we were seeing in the 2 G2cs we ran 1k rounds though. They're good, if you don't shoot much.
 
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I'm curious to see how it does. The g2c/g3c has sold extremely well
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And they are fine firearms.

Taurus is like Kel-Tec. Innovative. Unfortunately innovation is risky and if you aren't the early adopter type stay away from new designs for the first couple of years, it's just common sense.

Unfortunately however in this day of YouTube and gun forum experts a higher than normal level of issues with a completely new design is enough to trash an entire company, and many have done so declaring anything from these innovative companies as trash. See it often here. I for one applaud them and support them when I can.
 
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Taurus is like Kel-Tec. Innovative.
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IF any doubt this, take a look at a Taurus 2 inch barrel Titanium Colt 45 caliber or the greatest tiny .38 ever to come down the pike the View. It weighs 10 ouches loaded with 5 rounds of Hot .38s. These guns now out of production sell for Crazy money.
As to Kel-Tec...just this.....PMR30....
 
Just watched the video. Good review but I'd like to add that the older pistols based on the Millennium Pro are not DA/SA as stated, they are SA/DA. An innovative design by Taurus that allows a multiple strike capability if a round fails to ignite. It always starts out SA and stays that way until a malfunction occurs, then provides a full DA pull to restrike the primer. No other semi auto handgun known to me has ever had that capabity. All the reviewers complain about the long trigger (even Hickok45) but they never explain that it is a necessary attribute of that SA/DA design. Perhaps they just don't put 2 and 2 together.

So it boils down to is that capability worth the long take up. I'm 6'2" with big paws and I have no issues with it. It's a subjective thing. Most of the take up is effortless, that's the travel the DA pull will need when it's engaged, but in SA (normal) mode it's effortless. Then there is a wall begining some noticeable pull where you can stage at, then a short pull and a crisp break, and a short reset with very short pulls thereafter. This has been a description of the trigger in the current and previous versions of the G2, G3, and some of their other models. Don't believe the conventional wisdom until you've tried one for yourself.
 
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