Custom Grips for Ruger Single Actions

[Milt1]

I've purchased three sets of custom grips from Bearpaw grips on eBay. The seller is gooseman179 and he refers to his speciality grips as EIG 5 which stands for ergonomically improved grip. The top of the grip is 15% thicker and the butt of the grip is 10% thinner. I ordered a set of these grips for my Ruger Blackhawk caliber .45 Colt and they tamed the recoil considerably. In fact I ordered two more sets, one for my Blackhawk in .44 Special caliber and one for my Blackhawk in .357 caliber. I love the wood they are made from as well. The .44 Special is wearing Claro Walnut from California, my .45 Colt is wearing a set of Verigated Maple from my home state of North Carolina and the .357 is wearing a set of Buckeye Burl from the Pacific Northwest. As you probably know there are variations in the Ruger grip and gooseman179 explains which grips fit a particular Ruger. I love these grips and wanted to pass this info along to others that are not happy with the standard Ruger grip. I would post pictures but don't know how?

 

[horsemen61]

Pics please

 

[Milt1]

Here are my three Rugers:

 

[Milt1]

The top is Claro Walnut, the 2nd is Buckeye Burl and the third is Verigated Maple.

 

[WestKentucky]

I love those buckeye grips. I also like Osage orange grips. If you buy more, I would suggest looking at that wood and see if it does anything for you.

 

[Fiv3r]

I love those buckeye grips. I also like Osage orange grips. If you buy more, I would suggest looking at that wood and see if it does anything for you.

Osage is gorgeous stuff. I have a custom a knife made by a friend who I inlaid osage orange and walnut for the grip. Love that knife.

Those Ruger grips look lovely. I find the regular rosewood grips to be fine for my needs, but I would like to pick up some rubber slab grips (not one piece) for knock around use. Wood grips a beautiful and functional, but I hate to bugger them up.

 

[Milt1]

I love those buckeye grips. I also like Osage orange grips. If you buy more, I would suggest looking at that wood and see if it does anything for you.

I'll look into that, thanks!

 

[doubleh]

Those are purty grips. I'm not really sure how I would like the thicker top but think the thinner bottom might be nice. I have a BlackHawk I made some grips from local mesquire for and I've gotten an itch to make it another dress. I may try out this and see how I like it. I'll make the first set from some plain walnut and if I like it or want to modify it then I'll go fancier.

I have slab of really fancy and old walnut that would dress the SS gun up nicely.