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I am slightly confused.
Tex45acp showed a pic of his 2nd generation, but is had the memory pads on the frame. Does the 2nd generation have these also?
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Sort of . . . Some later second gen. Millenniums had the memory pads. That's an example of why these can be hard to differentiate. Taurus is continually reengineering and improving even within the same generation of the same gun. For instance, I have 2 Gen 3 Stainless PT 111 Pro's bought 5 months apart. One has a fairly bright matte finish slide, the other is very grey.
Another myth is that all Gen 3's have a Z in the serial number. That only denotes manufacturing sequence (2005/2006). 2007 guns have different alpha prefixes in the serial numbers, but they ARE gen 3 guns nonetheless.
I have no "special" inside info folks . . . just an afficionado of these that also happens to know a very special lady that grew up in Portugal who can e-mail questions for me to their Brazilian factory in the native language.