GP100 Altamont Grips

[Mayvik]

My 327 Federal GP100 came with the Hogue monogrip, and although it was a home/range gun I found it servicable but not great. After my first couple attempts to carry it, I realized it needed to go. After looking around a bit and not really being a fan of solid wood on stainless guns, I decided to go with Altamont's version of the original stock grips. The snakeskin rubber grip with snakeskin checkered inserts in silver black laminate seemed like a good idea and it is hard to beat the price.

Grips arrived and were installed today, and what a difference. In addition to looking a million times better, the feel and balance are great. I am pretty amazed at how much more natural the gun points without the finger grooves and hump. I love Hogue...but on the Ruger they missed the mark. If shooting with the Altamonts is aa improved as I suspect I will be very pleased indeed. My only "complaint" is that the agressive checkering of the scale pattern means the grain in the darker laminate is hard to see, but in this case it seems to work well with the two tone color scheme.

Yeah..sorry about the upside down picture...

 

[Panzerschwein]

I will second your find.

The stock Hogue rubber grips that come on the GP100 and frankly awful. They didn't fit me AT ALL, every finger rode on top of one of the finger grooves it was so bad and uncomfortable.

I found a pair of the old rubber/rosewood grips on E-bay and they are a tremedous improvement over the old Hogue ginger grove ugly monstrosities:

 

[TreeDoc]

I have a 3 inch GP, the houge grip was longer than barrel, it looked silly. Put some older OEM grips, handles much better and looks that way too.

 

[amd6547]

My first range trip with my 3" GP was with the OEM Hogue, which I was already planning to replace.
I found they actually shot very well for me.
Still, I got a great deal on compact Lett's, and won't go back...I shoot them great.