Hey, that worked

[doubleh]

I have a SAA clone and I could not find a way to hold it that didn't beat up my middle finger from recoil. I know, little finger under the grip, right? Wrong, don't work. I had just about quit ever shooting it. A couple of weeks ago I decided to try a Hogue rubber grip to see if it would help. Apparently Hogue doen't make them anymore and neither does Pachmayer. I finally ran down three sets of Pachmayer grips on ebay and ordered a set to see if they would fit. Well, not quite. The molding around the trigger guard was a bit sloppy and had excess rubber and the inside was rounded on the heel where my gun has a sharp corner. OK, dremel and a small pointed stone to the rescue. I cleaned up around the trigger guard and removed enough material inside to get the grip to fit.

A short shooting session proved to be rewarding. No more trigger guard bite.

 

[Michael Tinker Pearce]

Glad that you were able to find a solution. Pictures?

 

[35 Whelen]

I can't figure out how folks get their middle fingers beat with these revolvers. I shoot Uberti .44 Specials and 45 Colt's with some pretty stiff, heavy recoiling loads, yet have never had my middle finger beat. Maybe pictures of how you're holding the revolver?

35W

 

[MidRoad]

I can't figure out how folks get their middle fingers beat with these revolvers. I shoot Uberti .44 Specials and 45 Colt's with some pretty stiff, heavy recoiling loads, yet have never had my middle finger beat. Maybe pictures of how you're holding the revolver?

35W

Some people's fingers look like Italian sausages, some are like baby carrots,LOL. Everyone's hands are different, palm length,width, finger size, and spacing etc. And even a 1/8" difference in size may be what makes the difference in getting pinched or not.

I'm in the same boat as you and never have problems getting my knuckle beat up. Even with small wood grips on my sp101 with 180gr Buffalo bores I had no issues even though I read in many places people got the knuckles bumped by the sp101 if it didn't have a filler behind the gaurd with stouter loads.

Glad the OP found something that works for him. Shooting isn't that enjoyable if you're getting bit each time.

 

[Jack B.]

I have 12 different hand guns and none of them chewed up my finger except a New Model Super Blackhawk with the square trigger guard. Full house 44 magnum loads were painful till I put on Pachmayer Presentation grips. Problem solved. Now it's my favorite gun to shoot. I have big hands.

 

[doubleh]

I can't figure out how folks get their middle fingers beat with these revolvers. I shoot Uberti .44 Specials and 45 Colt's with some pretty stiff, heavy recoiling loads, yet have never had my middle finger beat. Maybe pictures of how you're holding the revolver?

35W

I was quite surprised that it did it. I've been shooting Blackhawks and Super Blackhawks for a lot of years with no problems at all. Every time I've fired it the trigger guard smacked me. Now it doesn't and I am happy. The grips are butt ugly but I can live with them.