 Hey there friends, thanks for checking in. Will any Taurus handgun replace the popular Taurus G3C? Not a day goes by where somebody doesn't tell me, you know, I like the gun you're featuring, but my G3C can do everything that could do plus some. I've got thousands of rounds through it. Never had an issue. This has become very popular. Ask any gun store owner, they will tell you that they sell a lot of these and people love the G3 series. But in the spring of 2021, Taurus came out with the GX4, a little bit smaller, 11 rounds, shorter barrel, flat trigger. Hitting that double stacked nine millimeter market, the sub compact, okay, a little smaller than the G3C, a little bit lighter. And this was met with high approval, but a year later, in the spring of 2022, Taurus came out with the GX4 XL. And this has 13 round mag, 3.7 inch barrel. Same overall characteristics and features that brought people to the GX4 models with a longer upper and a 3.7 inch barrel. Nice trigger breaks right around five and a half pounds. That flat trigger and a very short reset. I really like this one. This one fires so nice. And that additional barrel length aids in accuracy. So what is it that Taurus has launched? It's not a new release. It came out right around the end of September, early October. It is available and here it is. This is the Taurus GX4 carry, Tauro. Tauro stands for Taurus optic ready options. That's where their handguns are optic ready. And you can see I have an optic on there. So how does this differ from the other ones? Well, unlike the GX4 XL, this has a three slot Picatinny rail on the dust cover. Has that same five and a half pound trigger pull and 15 round magazines. So the GX4 XL has 13 rounds. This has 15 round magazine DLC coated barrel and that same five and a half pound trigger pull with a very short reset. I didn't, that was on me. I didn't, there it is. Very short. I like to grip texturing on the GX4s and they made these with interchangeable back straps. And if we look in the case, we'll see that comes with two 15 round magazines, paperwork, lock, little warning there telling you to activate the warranty of key chain. This is the slide it came on, or came on the slide, the cover plate. Two additional back straps and a plastic case. How much is it? Well, the MSRP is 505, but if you notice, Taurus is dropping cost over time. So the optic ready option, I've got an optic on there. I have a Siley Cat Pro, but let's take a look at this compared to the GX4 XL. Look at that barrel length. It's the same 3.7 inch barrel, but with 15 round magazines. I think I left one in the case there. The same magazine release. The grip texturing is a little bit different. If you look here, it's got an indentation where that middle finger rests right there, little, I wouldn't call it a finger groove. This has just a straight ledge, but the 15 round mags, pick rail, 3.7 inch barrel. They're calling it their GX4 carry model. It's rated black rear sights, pinned in front dot 505 MSRP. What optic do I have on here? This is a Siley Cat Pro. The footprint is for an RMS, so it has a variety of optic options that you could add to the GX4 carry. And I went with the Siley Cat Pro. This is Shake Awake. It has a side loading battery compartment, nice clear dot, a cut out there where you can access your front sight through the rear. Aluminum housed, I just like it. Siley does a great job, and they review very well. This is my fourth Siley, and I've been impressed that they performed very well. But let's take a look at this. We'll go ahead and disassemble it. Let's grab a nine millimeter round. To do that, after you check clear here, we'll pull the trigger. We're going to move this to the right, or shall I say the left, get it together here. And we'll see that the frame has pretty long frame rails, very light polymer frame. And here we have a dual captive recoil spring, and a 3.7 inch DLC coated barrel, okay? So it doesn't step too far away from the GX4 that many people love, they really do. Is it gonna be more popular than the G3C? I don't know, I don't have the analytics. And then once you get this out, all you do is rack it, and it'll put that lever back into place. So not a bad disassemble, pretty easy. Let's go ahead and get it on the scale, see what this thing's weighing in at, because the Taurus polymer handguns are pretty light. And get that mag, why'd I put both mags in here? Get it together, reviewer. All right, just ounce, one pound, six ounces. We move that to just ounces. We're looking at 22 ounces even. So it's called the GX4 carry. If we throw 16 rounds on there, we'll see that it's weighing in under 30 ounces, 28 and three quarters ounces, that's not bad. Let's take a look at the, what do we say? 28 and three quarters, GX4 XL. Boy, not even, not even an ounce lighter. So this is meant for carry. It's got the longer barrel length. I like that 3.7 inch barrel length. It's that perfect medium, where you feel complete control when shooting. It's got the nice grip texturing, 15 round mags, that's the draw here. Here we have the newer Taurus GX4 carry, and I think people are going to like it. I'm gonna get this to the range, see how it performs. I have a feeling based on the other two I showed and the G3 series that it's gonna be just fine. And I'm looking forward to doing that. I hope you will check in for that one. If you like videos like this, please subscribe and share. I always appreciate thumbs up button. Thanks for watching and you guys be safe.