Coke Grips

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Somebody will come and doubtless give you the chapter and verse, but in the meantime I can tell them by looking at them from the back. They are shaped like an old-fashioned Coke bottle when viewed looking straight at the backstrap.
 
Thats what I thought. Some one is advertising some normal looking (except older diamond) S&W grips on a gun as "coke" grips.
 
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The normal grips look kind of squarish from the back. The cokes have that swell in the middle like a Coke bottle.
 
The famous "Cokes" also have checkering that goes lower than standard.

If you go to smith-wessonforum.com and search (please) under "Cokes", you'll get pictures, descriptions, and information from very knowledgeable folks. It does seem that many people have started using the term for any diamond targets, whether out of greed or lack of knowledge.
 
Yes, the hip topic of late among S&W collectors. Coke this and Coke that. Yikes.

As noted they have a slight palm swell on both sides and a larger checkered area, leaving a very narrow band of uncheckered wood at the bottom. They only came on the .44 and .41 Magnums from the late 1950s and early 1960s.

They currently fetch around $400-$600 in good shape on ebay.
 
That Ebay photo did not exactly do it for me in explaining the difference. Anybody have some photos they could post. I never heard of the Coke Bottle grips until I read this thread.

The Doc is out now. :cool:
 
They are mainly a figment, imho. The design subtly changed from the rounded swelled shape to the squarish shape with pretty much the horrid S&W checkering surrounded by a routed ditch unchanged. Of course, the purists are going to deny it. I don't think S&W would recognize that they were different. They would call either type "Target" stocks. YMMV
 
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Here is what they look like from the back. Nice palm swell on them. Sorry about the nip out of the bottom of mine. I got them used that way for less then 200$ and I thought I had got a great deal. I did compared to today.
 
Your grips do look good and I have the Eagle secret service on a Ruger SP101 but after reading this

http://michaelbane.blogspot.com/2006/08/good-newsbad-news-sort-of-monday.html

I became a bit apprehensive about Eagle Heritage grips. It seems their quality control is not always working so that their quality is inconsistent. Two other things I am considering is the lack of an S&W medallion in the Eagle grips and I would like walnut instead of rosewood.

What was the wood used by S&W for the original cokes?
 
Thanks for the compliments!

I became a bit apprehensive about Eagle Heritage grips. It seems their quality control is not always working so that their quality is inconsistent. Two other things I am considering is the lack of an S&W medallion in the Eagle grips and I would like walnut instead of rosewood.
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I hear you. I would like to buy everything face to face but that wasn't possible in this case. The Eagle in the picture is much more slim and rounded than the later model S&W Target that descended from the coke bottle grip.

The S&W medallion was not important to me. And I personally would not pay the premium they ask for the old "coke" grips. I had plenty of them when they came like that. That's just a matter of taste, and I do not begrudge anybody their choice. S&W called their wood Goncalo Alves - I think that means "black walnut," but you can look it up.

The gun in the picture came with Pachmayr rubber. I had it engraved because I enjoyed shooting it so much. So I needed a grip to set it off.
 
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