Having a hard time tracking down grips...

[uglygun]

Looking for OEM type grips for a M28-2 that I pick up on Saturady, the typical large wooden target style grips. Got some old magna type grips that came with my 38/44 Outdoorsman but those are just too tiny for my mitts. Gotta track down some soon as I know those squishy Hogue rubber grips that are currently on the 28-2 are gonna drive me nuts.

Looking to have the same grips among all my N-frames for purposes of near identical handling until I can afford to change them out at a later date for something more comfortable.

Tried S&W, everything they have in inventory is round butt and that don't help much. Most other places I've checked have some goofy finger groove grips.

 

[ElToro]

generic S&W OEM target (non-diamond) grips are cheap on E-bay.

i'm not really aware of any aftermarket nice wood that resembles the fit.

try pickagrip.com ?

also the ubiquitous junk box at the gun shop or gun show...

 

[Majic]

Check or post on the S&W forum in the classified section. All sorts or S&W grips float thru there all the time.

 

[uglygun]

Hmm, good enough. Hadn't thought of that, thx.

 

[Gunhamr]

Eagle makes a duplicate of the old square butt S&W.

 

[uglygun]

Hmmm, seems the discription some people are using for these is "coke bottle" for the larger target grips.

While looking around for grips of that design I hit upon the Collin's Craft page, strangely I'm attracted to the blue laminated grips.
http://www.inventorscolony.com/collinscraftgrips/detail.asp?ID=39

 

[Majic]

True "Coke Bottle" stocks were only used in the 50's and very early 60's on a few revolvers by S&W. They bring premium prices when you find them. Not all target stocks are "Coke Bottles".

 

[uglygun]

Interesting...


Where does the difference in the grip design lay compared to the run of the mill target stocks?

 

[Majic]

The "Coke Bottles" were named so because they had somewhat of a coke bottle appearance to them. By today's definition I guess you could say it has somewhat of a palm swell to it.

 

[BluesBear]

Are you looking for the large checkered S&W Target grips?

 

[uglygun]

Yeah, thems be the ones...

http://home.bak.rr.com/varmintcong/nframes/29&1911.jpg


Like what came on my Model 29 before they started putting the squishy rubber stuff on the N-frames.

 

[OH25shooter]

Maybe the "new" Heritage Series by Eagle are what you are looking for: www.eaglegrips.com.

 

[uglygun]

Yeah, I saw those while I was looking around the other day....

Hard to swallow 90 dollars per grip when I'm considering replacing the grips on 2-3 of my revolvers. They are sorta low down on the list. The 50-70 dollar range, I can get over after awhile. Better yet, if I can find them for something closer to 30-50 dollars that would be fantastic.

I'm gonna see if a friend of mine might be interested in taking on a little wood working project and see if he wants to try making a set of grips. I can do alright with wood working but I haven't got squat in the way of decent tools, my friend however has access to a pretty nice facility with a nice spread of equipment available for his use.