Some new grips for an old friend.

[jar]

Put a set of relatively new Altamont walnut Magna style grips on my old "Highway Patrolman". Using an equally old Strong basket weave pancake holster that carries the 28 high and tight. Actually it's also a quite comfortable carry and kinda easy to obscure if not conceal.

 

[adcoch1]

Those altamonts sure look nice!

 

[bannockburn]

jar

Great looking grips and a nice rig to go with them!

 

[Pat Riot]

You’re a pretty snappy dresser, @jar

That rig and the new grip looks great.

 

[jar]

You’re a pretty snappy dresser, @jar

That rig and the new grip looks great.

One advantage to being really old. Wear clothes like that shirt with shorts and Happy Socks and even that rig is concealed during open carry. But it's the long hair and tie died headband that sets it all off.

 

[Pat Riot]

One advantage to being really old. Wear clothes like that shirt with shorts and Happy Socks and even that rig is concealed during open carry. But it's the long hair and tie died headband that sets it all off.

I love shirts like that. I have a couple myself.

 

[W.E.G.]

That shirt is Boogly!

Them grips make me wanna run around yelling "Woot- - - WOOT!"

Seriously. That's a cool rig. Now take it out and get it properly sweaty and dirty. You aint don until you've worn the finish off something.

 

[.455_Hunter]

Very nice! What color are those panels?

 

[shoebox1.1]

Could we see the steed outside the stable?

 

[jar]

Very nice! What color are those panels?

A dark walnut.

 

[jar]

Could we see the steed outside the stable?

Here are a few showing some of the many grips it's worn over the decades.

 

[e rex]

Jar, who makes the black holster in your top photo?
Rex

 

[jar]

Jar, who makes the black holster in your top photo?
Rex

That's a Strong model 930-15. I bought it in the late 1960s or early 1970s. Strong changed the model numbering system a few decades ago IIRC. They are much heavier weight leather than the Roy's Leather or Roy's Original pancakes and really difficult with modern fatter leather belts. Back then Roy Baker's pancake was very popular but Bucheimer and Strong and Hunter and Brauer Bros were about the most common brands I remember seeing.

 

[.455_Hunter]

A dark walnut.

Cool! I didn't know they have a darker brown variant. Mine have typically been either the redish "Rosewood" or the lighter "Super Walnut".

 

[.45Coltguy]

Mighty nice set-up you have there jar. Lookin' good.

 

[jar]

Cool! I didn't know they have a darker brown variant. Mine have typically been either the redish "Rosewood" or the lighter "Super Walnut".

These are Super Walnut just came out darker than expected.

 

[StrawHat]

Get a grip adapter for that revolver and you may never switch stocks styles again.





Kevin

 

[jar]

Get a grip adapter for that revolver and you may never switch stocks styles again.

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Kevin

Thanks but no thanks. Really don't like those things and wouldn't have them on any of my guns. But changing grips is more an aesthetic choice just like wearing different shirts or socks.

 

[StrawHat]

Thanks but no thanks. Really don't like those things and wouldn't have them on any of my guns. But changing grips is more an aesthetic choice just like wearing different shirts or socks.

That is why there is usually more than one horse in a race, everyone gets a choice!

Kevin

 

[lincen]

There is a saying that “Books do make a room”. As I enjoy having books, I also enjoy finding different grips for some of my guns. I literately have four shoeboxes full of grips. Many of them were rubber and I prefer factory wood, Altamont, or some of the grips on eBay from Thailand. Some grips I will never change. As to grip adapters, I reluctantly tried them and now have four. To each his own !

 

[doubleh]

Nice looking everything except the shirt. I might wear it if paid enough money but probably not.