Aftermarket grip for original Redhawk?

[Buck13]

I like the original smooth wooden grips on my Redhawk pretty well, but I think something a bit bigger would help me deal with its weight better for target shooting, and having a grip that fills in behind the trigger guard more would be good with heavy loads. I've definitely experience banging of the trigger guard into my middle finger when shooting lots of the fun stuff.

I hate the Houge monogrip! One of those came on my GP100. Too narrow across the front for my tastes, and my fingers are long but skinny, so finger grooves often don't feel right to me. I really love the feel of the classic Ruger rosewood panel GP100 grips. I got my wife to give me a set for Christmas not long after I got the GP100. I've toyed with the idea of getting a Super Redhawk just so I could use that grip on it, but that seems kinda profligate.

Anyone know of any Redhawk grips that approximate the more square cross section of the GP100 panel grip? Or anything (preferably in stock, or I guess a custom order that won't take forever) that at least fills in behind the trigger guard?

 

[Jimfern]

If you're willing to wait a really long time, you could consider a T-grip. It took about 8 months from when they got my payment to when I got it in the mail.

 

[Ethan Verity]

I put a pair of the "Classic" rosewood Eagle Grips on my 44 Magnum Ruger Redhawk, and was happy with them for a time. They were comfortable, and well made... BUT, they cracked! I think rosewood is just too soft for a punishing 44 Mag; S&W had the right idea with goncalo alves wood on their Model 29.

 

[WrongHanded]

https://us.nill-shop.com/

I have a set from this outfit. They're about the best thing (for me) that I've found so far.

 

[Riomouse911]

These Pachmayr Presentation grips are not ones I would go with anymore. They are now two-piece instead of one piece, so there are seams in the front and back that just never seem to line up right.



Stay safe.

 

[CraigC]

The grip is my biggest gripe about the Redhawk. It was my first big bore and I shot it for years, never comfortably. The problem is the grip frame is too small for comfortable "magna" style grips but too big for an oversized target grip to be comfortable. The Redhawk went down the road years ago but I now have three Supers and several GP's.

 

[adcoch1]

I have a houge monogrip on my redhawk that fits my hand, but most redhawk grips don't work for me. Mine is my workhorse revolver, so I don't mind the ugly houge, had one on my 29 before the redhawk too. All I know is there aren't very many good options for a redhawk.

 

[Varminterror]

The old Pachmayr Presentations were great. The Roper style Eagles are good. The Tyler T-Grip are good too.

I’m not sure if Hogue is still making Big Butt grips for RedHawks, but those are very close to my favorite semi-custom aftermarket grips.

 

[beag_nut]

True Asian rosewood is one of the hardest woods in the world. Likely the wood used for Ethan's grips were not fully seasoned. As a furniture maker I used it several times (fully seasoned) and it has never failed. But is a b***ht to work with. I have a cane I made, still in my possession, thirty years ago and it is pristine. It is called rosewood because of the aroma produced during machining.

 

[Riomouse911]

True Asian rosewood is one of the hardest woods in the world. Likely the wood used for Ethan's grips were not fully seasoned. As a furniture maker I used it several times (fully seasoned) and it has never failed. But is a b***ht to work with. I have a cane I made, still in my possession, thirty years ago and it is pristine. It is called rosewood because of the aroma produced during machining.

My neighbor when I was in high school traded a couple of brass barroom footrails for a few boxes filled with blocks of amazon rosewood, cocobolo, pau ferro and goncalo alves woods at the swap meet where he did business. Ed had a pretty cool woodworking shop in his basement, but I moved out of the house and off to college before I ever knew what he did with them.

If I recall correctly, the rosewood and cocobolo blocks (Each wood block was about 5”x18”x3”) were surprisingly heavy, they weighed a bit more than the others did.

Stay safe.