I still have a couple pairs of Ahrend's that I need to find revolvers for, but My wife says I need to slow down.
Anyone else love Smith's and Ahrend's?
I have one pair of Ahrends grips, square-butt K. Recoil was unpleasant, with .357 ammo, more so than factory Magna-type grips, or Spegel boot grips, so the Ahrends grips live on my Model 17-4.
Beautiful grips, just not a best fit, for my hands.
Am from Clarion Iowa where Ahrends grips were made and a friend of his daughter. He had a small shop right on main street, had no idea what he made there nor the reputation of his products. It's shame what the bank did to him.
I don't have any Ahrend's grips for my S&W revolvers but I do have a pair of his skip-line checkered grips for a 1911 I was building. Beautifully crafted from rosewood they were very well made and a bargain at any price.
I met Kim and Judy Ahrends at a few matches in Clarion, Iowa. As I remember he shot a custom Commander in a cross draw holster. Both were super-nice,
friendly people.
Here is my set on a Mtn. Revolver of 1989 .44 Mag. I've had then on for a long time. I also bought from Kim a dark Cocobol set of square grip finger groove grips for a 29-2 8 3/8" at the same time , those are buried in a safe in Calif. tho.
Here I found a picture of them on my 629 no dash when I first got them, I switched them to the 29-2 as it really helped that nose heavy beast !
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