(Note: Answer the poll before doing anything else) and Sorry for the long post! Even if you just answer the poll and nothing else, that would be useful.
Okay, I read it all the time:
"The grip was WAY too big for me, and I have pretty large hands"
or
"It was very comfortable, even for my smallish hands and stubby fingers."
Et cetera.
But I always wonder what constitutes small, medium, large hands. Obviously there are different ways of measuring. But it would be good to know sort of a baseline, so we aren't misleading others. (For example, if I perceive myself to have average hands but they are actually LARGE, then I tell someone on the internet that such and such gun is very easy/comfortable to grip, and they have small hands but perceive themselves to have average hands, there is a huge disparity there.)
So I am bored at work and maybe you are too, and I happen to have a ruler so I measured some things! (No, not THAT thing. See below for how/what I measured) It should only take a few seconds and I think could yield some interesting results if we get enough folks to participate.
* Trigger Finger Length = 4.4"
** Spread = 9.0"
*** Palm length = 4.4"
**** Palm width = 3.6"
Here is how I measured.
* Trigger Finger Length: Find an L somewhere, maybe a corner of a room or in my case, my L-shaped desk. Stick your 3rd knuckle into the corner and straighten your finger. Measure from the corner out to the edge of your finger.
**Spread: Spread your thumb and fingers as WIDE as they will go, comfortably. Kind of like when you made those turkey drawings as a kid. Either outline your hand or just put a dot at the edge of your thumb and pinky, and measure the distance in between them.
***Palm Length: This is kind of the hardest to measure. I just went from the first wrinkle of my middle finger, to the first wrinkle on my wrist. I hope that makes sense.
**** Palm width: I took this measurement at the knuckles. Basically you judo-chop your desk and measure the height of your hand at the knuckles. Or with all 4 fingers together, mark on paper and measure.
Now, I never considered myself to have "big hands" but I have always considered my fingers skinny/long. I have never had trouble gripping a Glock or Beretta 92, and on some smaller guns I don't know what to do with my fingers sometimes. So maybe I have large hands but I dunno! That is the whole point of this. I will answer slightly above average for the poll, maybe after this is all said and done I will discover that my perception was erroneous.
Nerd alert: The goal of the poll is that in theory, we should have a relatively normal (bell-shaped) distribution of the responses, and if it is skewed in either way, or inverse bell curve, then that means either gun-owners hand sizes are not representative of the overall population, or people's perceptions are deceiving them.
Okay, I read it all the time:
"The grip was WAY too big for me, and I have pretty large hands"
or
"It was very comfortable, even for my smallish hands and stubby fingers."
Et cetera.
But I always wonder what constitutes small, medium, large hands. Obviously there are different ways of measuring. But it would be good to know sort of a baseline, so we aren't misleading others. (For example, if I perceive myself to have average hands but they are actually LARGE, then I tell someone on the internet that such and such gun is very easy/comfortable to grip, and they have small hands but perceive themselves to have average hands, there is a huge disparity there.)
So I am bored at work and maybe you are too, and I happen to have a ruler so I measured some things! (No, not THAT thing. See below for how/what I measured) It should only take a few seconds and I think could yield some interesting results if we get enough folks to participate.
* Trigger Finger Length = 4.4"
** Spread = 9.0"
*** Palm length = 4.4"
**** Palm width = 3.6"
Here is how I measured.
* Trigger Finger Length: Find an L somewhere, maybe a corner of a room or in my case, my L-shaped desk. Stick your 3rd knuckle into the corner and straighten your finger. Measure from the corner out to the edge of your finger.
**Spread: Spread your thumb and fingers as WIDE as they will go, comfortably. Kind of like when you made those turkey drawings as a kid. Either outline your hand or just put a dot at the edge of your thumb and pinky, and measure the distance in between them.
***Palm Length: This is kind of the hardest to measure. I just went from the first wrinkle of my middle finger, to the first wrinkle on my wrist. I hope that makes sense.
**** Palm width: I took this measurement at the knuckles. Basically you judo-chop your desk and measure the height of your hand at the knuckles. Or with all 4 fingers together, mark on paper and measure.
Now, I never considered myself to have "big hands" but I have always considered my fingers skinny/long. I have never had trouble gripping a Glock or Beretta 92, and on some smaller guns I don't know what to do with my fingers sometimes. So maybe I have large hands but I dunno! That is the whole point of this. I will answer slightly above average for the poll, maybe after this is all said and done I will discover that my perception was erroneous.
Nerd alert: The goal of the poll is that in theory, we should have a relatively normal (bell-shaped) distribution of the responses, and if it is skewed in either way, or inverse bell curve, then that means either gun-owners hand sizes are not representative of the overall population, or people's perceptions are deceiving them.