S&W 625 at the Range

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Got out with a friend for a few hours and shot out 625s. Mine is a dash 6 with 5 inch barrel and he has a new 4 inch 625JM. These revolvers are a joy to shoot and really make us look like good shooters.
I shot this 6 inch shoot n see standiing offhand at 50ft
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We each ran 120 rounds, mostly at 50 & 75 feet, but we did stretch them out to 100 feet. Even that didnt seem all that hard. Here was the range set up
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Sure had fun. My 625 needs a good cleaning now
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Good shooting I really like my 625 PC as well as my other .45 revolvers. A good pair of Hogue wood grips will improve the feel and accuracy over the clown shoe grips that come with the gun. Mine are in a box somewhere...

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One of mine has rubber on it but the one I placed 1st master at the ‘09 IDPA nationals was wearing wood grips.
Did you also get last place too? :rofl: I have never shot an IDPA match with a revolver and not gotten both 1st and last place in Revolver (SSR/ESR). The division seems to be dying, at least at the local level around here.

ETA: More seriously you got to run what works for you. Your hands have to be comfortable to shoot well. I have never found a wood grip that works for me and I have be box of old grips. All my N-frames get whatever came on them removed for a Hogue round-butt mono-grip. I don't own any square butt S&W revolvers. Obviously for you wood works.
 
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Did you also get last place too? :rofl: I have never shot an IDPA match with a revolver and not gotten both 1st and last place in Revolver (SSR/ESR).

That can be an issue at club matches but there are a couple more that show up at nationals.
 
Did you also get last place too? :rofl: I have never shot an IDPA match with a revolver and not gotten both 1st and last place in Revolver (SSR/ESR). The division seems to be dying, at least at the local level around here.

ETA: More seriously you got to run what works for you. Your hands have to be comfortable to shoot well. I have never found a wood grip that works for me and I have be box of old grips. All my N-frames get whatever came on them removed for a Hogue round-butt mono-grip. I don't own any square butt S&W revolvers. Obviously for you wood works.
+1 on the hogue monogrip.
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ETA: More seriously you got to run what works for you. Your hands have to be comfortable to shoot well. I have never found a wood grip that works for me...

My 625 is wearing some classy Ahrend finger-groove furniture... with a big slab of skateboard tape on the left grip so my left palm can lock into something! Maybe the gun equivalent of a mullet?
 
My 625 is wearing some classy Ahrend finger-groove furniture... with a big slab of skateboard tape on the left grip so my left palm can lock into something! Maybe the gun equivalent of a mullet?

It's always nice when they look good too but ugly and comfortable is far better than pretty and painful!
 
With service-caliber revolvers, the most common source of pain for me is the gun slipping a little in my grip and my thumb getting banged by the cylinder release. As long as the gun doesn't move relative to my hands, then the discomfort doesn't start until up into the true magnum range!
 
but there are a couple more that show up at nationals.
Last year, I think there were more than 15.

The top 3 in the Revolver Division were all using wood grips...specifically the JM grips. As my revolver mentor said when he recommended them to me for competition, "You'll either love them or hate them, there is no middle ground"
 
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