grips....

[5of7]

I have a 5-1/5" Redhawk in .41 mg. that I bought used, I think from someone here, but I disremember for sure.

When I got it it had a set of Pachmyer hand filling grips on it and I immediately repalced them with the Hogue Mini grip that I like only because I like the way the shorter barreled Redhawks look with the mini grip on them.

I have never been able to get groups as good as I know I can shoot out of this gun. There would be wild fliers both high and low that opened groups from 3" at 25 yds. to 8" or so.

So finally I got to thinking that just maybe it was the grips. I reinstalled the larger Pachmyers on the gun and guess what? See where I am going with this?

No more fliers and groups hovering around 3" at 25 yds, which is as good as I can shoot freehand at that range.

Have any of you noticed a change in your groups by just changing grips? 8)

 

[coop2564]

I'm trying to find a set of finger groove grips now. My blackhawk has the standard grip and its just toooo small with no defining grip point. I'm same getting poor groups with lots of fliers. I shoot guns that shouldnt be as accurate as this BH, much better. So I'm looking for something bigger for better control for mine too. finger grooves for the standard blackhawk seem hard to come by.

 

[coop2564]

I'm trying to find a set of finger groove grips now. My blackhawk has the standard grip and its just toooo small with no defining grip point. I'm same getting poor groups with lots of fliers. I shoot guns that shouldnt be as accurate as this BH, much better. So I'm looking for something bigger for better control for mine too. finger grooves for the standard blackhawk seem hard to come by.

 

[WESHOOT2]

All my Redhawks wear/wore Pachmayr Decelerator stocks because I shoot them better when they wear those stocks.


(I traded my 5.5" 41 for a 40 S&W 1911....and sold that, too)

 

[MaxP]

I have Pachmyrs on my .454 Casull Redhawk and I really dislike them. I will be buying a set of Nil Griffe wood grips for it. Everyone I know who uses these grips is very happy with them particularly when recoil gets heavy.

 

[5of7]

As a rule, I don't care for the Pachmyer grips at all, but in this case, they are a a lot better than the Hogue mini grips that I had on this particular gun.

It is not because of recoil, it is because I can control the gun better during the pulling of the trigger stage of shooting.

I am about to replace the mini grip on my .45 Redhawk and see if it helps on that gun too, although I have not been getting bad groups on that one.

I am thinking that I require a grip that is larger in diameter than the mini is for better control during let-off. 8)

 

[Tommy Kelly]

I use pachmayer grips on most all my handguns. They aren't pretty but they are durable and make a lot more sense to me. I remove good looking wood grips and replace with the rubber. The rubber doesn't swell and loose its finish if it gets wet or chip if you accidentially bump it into a tree or bump them aganst something going through the woods they stay ugly and keep their shape. Some people on here think I'm crazy for using them but My guns get used and pretty wood grips don't last long with use. They are fine for safe queens or show guns but mine are neither. I use them and take care of them as well as anyone can but it would make me sick to chip a nice set of grips. The rubber goes where I go and no matter the weather they are fine and even if you scrub them aganst a tree or a steel post they keep on going without any dents or dings. I agree nice wood is a thing of beauty but not servicable for everyday use they don't stay pretty long.

 

[Rancher Will]

I enjoy looking at nice grips as does anyone. They are fine.

On each of my handguns I have what some might consider ugly grips. In fact they all show marks, some slight scratches, and signs of age. They are on those guns for a reason.

Nearly 50 years ago, I met Bill Jordan in Rock Springs, Wyoming when Bill was there as a witness in a trial for the Chief of Police there. We discussed the grips that he had on his S&W Model 19 conpared to the factory grips on my S&W Model 28 that I had at that time. (I carried a 28 before I got my 29.)

The result of that conversation, and my own experience shooting my handguns up to that time, was that I took his advise and ordered Herrett Grips, for each of my handguns, the grips made to order to exactly fit my hand.

Those grips, on each of my handguns, make all the difference in shooting accuracy and especially in point shooting. With those hand fitting grips each of my handguns shoot where the gun is pointed, automatically, just as my finger points at what I look at without my aiming.

I am not Ed McGivern but those grips make possible a draw, pointing the gun from waist level at a target ten to twenty feet away, and putting the bullets into a playing card size pattern without even looking at the gun. I was never able to do this with the factory issued grips. With the custom fitted grips, on both my double and single action revolvers, the gun always points where I look.

 

[CraigC]

...pretty wood grips don't last long with use....not servicable for everyday use they don't stay pretty long.

I'm going to call you out on this. This is my knockaround Single Six. It cost me $200 about 12yrs ago. It has been wearing a $200 set of claro walnut grips by CLC for about three years now. This sixgun has seen at least 10-15,000rds in that time (another 500rds Friday), lots of holster use and woods carry. Knocking around in my UTV. Slid into a back pocket while crawling through a barbed wire fence. It goes along when I feed the cows, check the fence line or get the mail. It's been drenched while fishing, raining, etc., etc., ad nauseum. You get the point. The grips are no more worse for wear than they were when I got them. While some may choose not to spend what I spend on custom grips, and that is fine, I can't sit back and read condescending comments such as yours that guns with nice grips couldn't possibly get used. That they're only good for safe queens. Hogwash!!!

 

[black029]

I find that my accuracy, in all modes of handgun shooting, goes up as grip size goes down. My hand only measures 8" from tip of thum to tip of little finger when splayed out flat on a table. So when Glock shaves a few mm's off its grip, that's great for me. When I can find compacts ( the originals by Lett, I believe) for my GP100s I buy them.
I just wish Pachmayr would make Compac Pros for N frame RBs, there are more of those around these days than ever. But Pachmayr seems like they are just hanging on, haven't had a new product in 15 years.
And the return to the XR3 pattern in the Vaquero is also great by me.