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As much as I have advocated wood pistol grip on carry guns in the past (to the point of deriding rubber pistol grips as "Goodyears"), I have to admit that my carry wheelguns are now wearing rubber pistol grips.
I have finally found a grip that fits my hand perfectly, thinner than the stock pistol grip, not as sticky as the Hogues, and checkered sharp enough to keep the gun from slipping. It's the Pachmayr Compac Professional, the kind with the open backstrap, and I like it so much that I tracked down a few sets on eBay for use with future K frame purchases.
Yes, yes, they aren't much in the looks department, but they conceal better than even the stock pistol grips with Tylers, and they fit my hand just right.
Now you can all make fun of me for using plebeian rubber pistol grip on fine S&W steel...
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08-19-2005, 01:44 PM #2
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08-19-2005, 02:10 PM #3
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08-19-2005, 04:25 PM #4
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Posts: 66 Nice pic! The Pachmayr Compac Professionals are my favorite K-frame .38 pistol grips.
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08-19-2005, 04:41 PM #5
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Posts: 157 Better to have something that fits your hand perfectly when defending yourself, than something that just looks pretty. If that hideous, butt-ugly, sacrilegious monstrosity works for you, then it's all good.
I'll keep my stocks and Tyler's.
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08-19-2005, 04:42 PM #6
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Posts: 10 Like most, I love the look of fine wood pistol grips but when it comes to shooting big bores with heavy loads you can't beat the feel of rubber. On some of my snubbys, wood actually stings when shooting while the rubber feels fine. Now if someone could only make a really good looking synthetic we would have the best of both worlds.
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08-19-2005, 04:53 PM #7
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08-20-2005, 08:36 PM #14
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Posts: 2,317 Hello. Given my druthers, I'd go with wood as it just plain looks better to me, but when it comes down to it, I go with what fits me best and that I do my best shooting with.
These "high dollar" stocks are of nylon and cost about $18.00 at Brownells.
My Model 64 wears the same rubber pistol grips yours does and I've found them the best so far...for me.
Best and good shooting.
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08-20-2005, 10:42 PM #15
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Posts: 575 I find that I like "Goodyear" pistol grips better than the wood. But I do like the wood pistol grips that come on guns like the mod 10. The pistol grips that come on a mod 29 or like pistol grips! You have them . I hate those pistol grips! They look nice but I would just as soon use the wood grip for fire wood
I took the stock rubber pistol grips of off my mod 646 and planted them on my 13. Nice looking mod 13 Marko. My mod 13 lays on my night stand every night
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08-21-2005, 09:45 AM #17
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Posts: 575 A mod 10 heavy barrel? I looks just like my mod 13! My 10-7 has a 4 inch pencil barrel. Smith made so many different guns I guess that they mad two different models that look the same. I still have the wood pistol grips on my mod 10. They look good and fell good so I think they are going to stay.
My mod 27-2 still has the big wood pistol grips. I put the first round throught the gun. Yah it was unfired when I got the gun. The gun is a good looking piece. "it's eye candy" . The wood pistol grips are staying on that gun as well. I picked up a 4 inch stainless Python about a month ago. It has the rubber pistol grips. I really think the gun would look much better with the wood pistol grips.
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08-21-2005, 03:26 PM #18
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yeh that wood looks pretty but as I got older I got more practical....most of my guns get swapped out to rubber
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I realized there is a difference. The mod 10 only shoots 38 special.
Yep, that's why I like it. I used to carry a Model 65, but one day it dawned on me that I only ever carried it with .38 Special +P loads anyway, so why pay the Magnum premium if I never use the feature? One caliber, one point of impact, no durability issues, no chamber rings to worry about after range sessions with .38 Specials...
Besides, there's something undeniably cool about that M10 3"HB. It just says, "we doan need no steenkin' Magnums to get the job done."
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My first exposure was on a Service-Six SS from some Federal Dept. tradins. They worked great and I've put them on a couple of others. Need to see if Pachmayr makes something like the Compac for Ruger Blackhawks.
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