BHP grip options - Navidrex thin or something else?

[danez71]

You have years to figure out what stocks best suit you. What you find you like now may change in a few years. Yu can experiment with differnt sizes and contours.

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tipoc

Ya know.... that's something I never considered and it's true. Ive gone back and forth a cpl times with the Med and Small on my MP9c. Thanks for mentioning it.


Thanks to everyone else too for the suggestions.

 

[Mizar]

I'm posting links to another forums (hope that's OK), but with some very good photos - both comparison and different views for the following grips:
Navidrex
Spegel
Hogue
Mil Tac
Herrett
By far Navidrex grips seems to be the slimmest and Herretts the thickest. Hope this will help.

http://www.handgunsandammunition.com/holsters-gun-accessories/12063-vz-pro-slims-hi-power.html Different views, just scroll down to post #3 for links to other grip models.
https://forums.1911forum.com/showthread.php?t=379405 Comparison photos.

...You have years to figure out what stocks best suit you. What you find you like now may change in a few years...

I'm not quite sure about that - If one goes just for the looks then yes, you change grips quite often. Especially if it's just a range gun. The change is not because of the fit I think, but just excitement and desire to try something "new" and "different". For the last 10 years I use only Pachmayrs - sure, I have tried different grips in the past, but those rubber monstrosities fit my hand so well that I don't see a reason to change them. But it's my daily carry gun, so form follows function in this case. From time to time, thanks to treads like this, I get an itch to try some new and fancy grips, but then I say to myself: "You satisfied with those ugly rubber thingies? Well, yes I am! Then why bother?!? Just buy more ammo instead!".

Best,
Boris

 

[bannockburn]

Even with the front and backstrap panels in place I have always felt that the Pachmayr grips felt very thin on my Hi-Power.

 

[drband]

Even with the front and backstrap panels in place I have always felt that the Pachmayr grips felt very thin on my Hi-Power.

I agree. "Feels" much thinner than the stock wood grips.

 

[SSN Vet]

I have the Navidrex thins on my BHP and love them. Made all the difference for my hand (thick med.-large palm with shorter fingers).

Sounds like you want the Spegal profile grips.... thin with slight palm swell. $65 for standard grade Coco-Bolo

I wander if VZ cloned the Spegal profile.

 

[danez71]

I'm posting links to another forums (hope that's OK), but with some very good photos - both comparison and different views for the following grips:
Navidrex
Spegel
Hogue
Mil Tac
Herrett
By far Navidrex grips seems to be the slimmest and Herretts the thickest. Hope this will help.

http://www.handgunsandammunition.com/holsters-gun-accessories/12063-vz-pro-slims-hi-power.html Different views, just scroll down to post #3 for links to other grip models.
https://forums.1911forum.com/showthread.php?t=379405 Comparison photos.

I'm not quite sure about that - If one goes just for the looks then yes, you change grips quite often. Especially if it's just a range gun. The change is not because of the fit I think, but just excitement and desire to try something "new" and "different". For the last 10 years I use only Pachmayrs - sure, I have tried different grips in the past, but those rubber monstrosities fit my hand so well that I don't see a reason to change them. But it's my daily carry gun, so form follows function in this case. From time to time, thanks to treads like this, I get an itch to try some new and fancy grips, but then I say to myself: "You satisfied with those ugly rubber thingies? Well, yes I am! Then why bother?!? Just buy more ammo instead!".

Best,
Boris

Thank you for those links.

I compared them to mine and it helped. I noticed that my Mk3 grips really don't have swell at all; just the thumb rest area, really. And I believe, for me, total circumference makes the biggest difference.

If things work out, Santa may be dropping off a pair of Navidrex thin grips after he gets done dropping of presents to those that made a list on time.


On a side note, I was reminded how slim the gun is when I was comparing the grips to the pictures in the links.

All be danged!!.... the slide is no thicker than the slide on a S&W Shield. Who would of thought that in 1935 they made a double stack service combat gun that's the same thickness as a single stack subcompact designed 80 yrs later in the same caliber?!?! (I'm taling about if you take the grips off the BHP and don't count the controls..... basically the slide and upper frame area are the same thickness.)

 

[Ibmikey]

Altamont grips has some super thin wood panels, nicely checkered or traditional thickness with nice checkered patterns. I have thin rosewood on my Mk III and a greenish black color on my MkII. Since the panels are laminated the grain effect is nicely done.

 

[Litlman]

I have original wood grips on mine. I have big hands and love the way at they feel. I like the look of Nill and Spegal. Mine are T series Hi powers and have real nice bluing so the wood grips look nice.

 

[Mizar]

For me personally, a blued Hi-Power with the original dark walnut grips just looks right. A classy looking firearm in a subtle, British, way...

 

[Gary A]

When I mentioned Hogue G10 grips, I neglected to mention the Hogue checkered Rosewood grips that are also very thin.