Description
The Taurus GX4 Carry Sniper Green is the green-Cerakoted version of Taurus’s stretched micro-compact: a 3.70-inch black DLC barrel, a Sniper Green slide and frame with black controls, interchangeable backstraps, and ten rounds in a flush-fitting magazine.
The Carry frame is the reason to look at this one rather than the standard GX4. It adds about half an inch of barrel and an inch of grip over the micro, which means a full three-finger hold and meaningfully more velocity, while staying narrow enough to carry inside the waistband. The Taurus GX4 Carry Sniper Green is that gun in a colour that is not black.
What is on the pistol
- A 3.70-inch barrel in black DLC — a diamond-like carbon coating that is hard, slick and highly corrosion resistant, and left dark against the green.
- Sniper Green Cerakote over both the alloy steel slide and the polymer frame, with the controls left black.
- Interchangeable backstraps — two spares ship in the box, so the reach to the trigger on the Taurus GX4 Carry Sniper Green fits the hand rather than nearly fitting.
- A Picatinny rail moulded into the dust cover, which the smaller GX4 micro frame does not have.
- Ten rounds plus one, flush-fit, with a trigger-blade safety and a striker block.
About the finish, honestly
- On the Taurus GX4 Carry Sniper Green the Cerakote is a sprayed ceramic coating, not colour moulded through the polymer. A deep gouge will show the material underneath rather than more green.
- That said, it is a genuinely tough coating, and it is applied to both the steel slide and the polymer frame so the colour matches across two different materials — which moulded pigment cannot do.
- Leaving the controls black is a practical choice as much as a cosmetic one: the trigger, the slide stop and the magazine release stand out against the frame.
- Green is easy to identify in a safe or a bag, and low-key enough that it does not announce itself the way a bright frame does.
- There is no price penalty for the finish.
Specifications
- Manufacturer part number: 1-GX4CR94F-10F
- UPC: 725327635604
- Calibre: 9mm Luger
- Capacity: 10+1
- Barrel: 3.70 in, black DLC stainless steel
- Slide: alloy steel, Sniper Green Cerakote, serrated
- Frame: polymer, Sniper Green Cerakote with black controls, Picatinny rail
- Grip: Sniper Green, interchangeable backstraps
- Action: striker-fired
- Safety: trigger blade and striker block
- Sights: fixed
9mm Luger is standardised by SAAMI, so this pistol runs on anything from cheap range ammunition to premium defensive loads without adjustment. A 3.70-inch barrel gives up noticeably less than a three-inch one, and loads designed to expand at short-barrel velocities work particularly well from it.
The same pistol in black is stocked as the GX4 Carry, with an optic cut as the GX4 Carry TORO 10 Round and the fifteen-round TORO. For something smaller, the GX4 Micro; for something cheaper and larger, the GX2 Compact.
Why the Taurus GX4 Carry Sniper Green earns its place
- The Taurus GX4 Carry Sniper Green keeps a full-length grip inside a ten-round limit, on a pistol that still conceals like a micro.
- DLC on the barrel and Cerakote over slide and frame, at a price where bare paint is the norm.
- Two spare backstraps in the box.
- A rail, which the micro GX4 frame does not offer.
- A finish that is easy to pick out of a safe without being loud about it.
This is an everyday carry pistol for someone in a ten-round jurisdiction who wants capacity and grip length without carrying a compact, and who would rather not own another black pistol. The trigger is decent rather than exceptional and the sights are plain black; the Taurus GX4 Carry Sniper Green competes on features for the money, and on fitting a hand properly out of the box.
In stock now at MAG5 Firearms in Collegeville, Pennsylvania. Handgun sales ship to a licensed dealer in your state, where you will complete a Form 4473 and the background check before taking delivery.
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