One grip (well, two) to Rule Them All!

[halfmoonclip]

I despise rubber grips(Goodyears) on revolvers. Makes "em"look bulky and ugly. Only nice wood grips for me.

Generally, I agree. Two .44s, a Hunter and a Mountain Gun, wear rubber Hogues, but everything else has wood or composite. Even the rip snorting M340 has a smooth wooden boot grip.
Realize that Pachyderms serve a useful purpose, but I can't abide the look of the things.
Moon

 

[doubleh]

Hogue rubber grips are butt ugly but they work oh so well for me. The finger grooves are a perfect fit and allow me to have the same hold all the time. Hand strength decreases with age and I find them easier to hold. I also have a couple of revolvers with Pachmayr grips and I like them too. No more beat up middle finger with my SSA clone and no more aching web with my Smith 19. I use Hogue's on some semi-autos too. I am more interested in go than show now.

 

[Whiskeyhotel2020]

Herretts are my grips of choice. I found a set on ebay for my smith model 13. They fit great and feel great in my hand. Although I would love to get a set of Speigel combat boot grips for my 625 (once I win the lotto that is).

 

[Charlie98]

and no more aching web with my Smith 19.

When I had my 686, I bought a beautiful set of Hogue wood grips, they looked nice, and felt nice in the hand... but then you pulled the trigger. With anything more than standard velocity .38SPC, that backstrap pounded my hand! Part of that had to do with the angle of the grip in my hand, where it sent recoil straight up into the V of my palm.

 

[CraigC]

When I had my 686, I bought a beautiful set of Hogue wood grips, they looked nice, and felt nice in the hand... but then you pulled the trigger. With anything more than standard velocity .38SPC, that backstrap pounded my hand! Part of that had to do with the angle of the grip in my hand, where it sent recoil straight up into the V of my palm.

Same here. IMHO, they are too thin and the pronounced palm swells try to rub a hole in my palm.

 

[crestoncowboy]

I put pachmyer on several revolvers and always ended up taking them off. Made the guns feel too thin to me . I liked the looks but not the feel.

I like the look of wood but I shoot revolvers almost entirely in magnums from the 329pd to xframes and ditched the wood. A lot of magnums with wood grips is more damaging long term than magnums with something like the hogue tamers

 

[WestKentucky]

There are a few that feel good, but the one that really feels RIGHT and shoots well for me is the Altamont Altai grips. Both J and K frame variants just flat out look good and feel even better to me. I shoot them well which is really the big picture, but as a total package there’s nothing that those grips don’t do well when I get ahold of them. Getting them can be an issue as Altamont seems to regularly be ran out of material or out of this type of grip for whatever I’m looking for at the time.

 

[.38 Special]

I had a long dalliance with Jordan Troopers - I do have a pair of black plastic ones, in addition to customs from Herret's - but my hands simply aren't big enough to use them to best effect. (At one point I decided that the smooth Miculek grips would be perfect - Jordan Troopers for regular-sized hands - and they turned out to be possibly the worst grips I have ever used. C'est la vie...)

I can use the big S&W target stocks, and think they look great, but they chew on me a bit and don't do anything for me in either the speed or accuracy departments.

Finger groove grips have always been atrocious for me. I have never found a pair that had the grooves anywhere like the right place, and in fact I usually find that the "peaks" are exactly where I would like the valleys. A great deal of my shooting, though, has been done with a "sort-of" grooved grip from Pachmayr. This one has only one groove, meant for the middle finger, and is in exactly the wrong spot. The "peak" ends up directly under my ring finger, but I ended up using it as sort of an index for finger placement, which may well have helped my consistency.

In the end, nothing fits me better than Magnas with an adapter, and these days that is what goes on just about any gun which will accept them.

"Dark Troopers" on a Model 19 (original Don Hume Jordan holster and belt)




Finger groove grip on 686


A new pair of Magnas on an old gun, along with a rubber Pachmayr adapter