I don't understand the love for the old style GP100 grips

[Walkalong]

Old grips for me. Fit my hand perfectly, no finger grooves. I can shoot any load in a GP100 with the old grips.

I personally dislike grips that have finger grooves, especially rubber grips.

Ruger shoulda never changed, and they ought to change back to the originals,

I could not have said it better. They look far better, fit far better, and absorb recoil just fine. The finger grooves are all wrong for my hands.

 

[bsms]

Just looking at pictures, it seems the Hogue grips force you to hold the GP100 lower...the old style grips allow the middle finger to be where the frame narrows and forms the trigger guard.

The Hogue won't allow you to put your index finger any higher than halfway up the trigger guard proper. The lower hold should increase the felt recoil, all other things held equal.



I have ordered old style GP100 grips for my Alaskan (that I first shot today). The Hogue grips are OK, but I prefer wood that doesn't stick to your skin as the gun moves under recoil. I guess some consider that a feature rather than a fault, but I LIKE letting the gun shift a little. I could also use a smaller grip, if possible. I'd rather have a firm grip in my hand than the squish of a soft rubber grip.

I should know by next week, when grips and ammo are supposed to arrive...

 

[bsms]

All - sorry for the poor pics, but after reading what folks wrote here, I ordered a pair of the old style grips from Ruger Online...and they arrived 24 hours after I ordered!

They feel GREAT on MY hand - filling, but smooth on the sides and easy for me to get all three lower fingers on to the grip where I want them.



Also, see the original Alaskan Hogue with the old style



In this picture, I put the Hogue back over the Ruger old style (ROS?). They bury the ROS, and lower where my bottom 3 fingers need to go.



Finally, I fired the Alaskan for the first time yesterday afternoon...all 7 rounds of 44 ammo that I still had. Just got 300 rounds delivered, so I'll do some more shooting this weekend. However, with the Hogue, what hurt wasn't so much the backstrap area, but the sides of my palm. The sticky rubber acted like checkering and scrapped against my skin with the gun movement. I think the new ROS will perform better, and let the gun slip a bit - but since my bottom 3 fingers will be wrapped comfortably around the grip, I should be able to bring it back into place by just squeezing, the way I do with my Dan Wesson using small grips.

 

[RUT]

There, now it looks like a real Ruger!!

 

[alienbogey]

I didn't know you could still get the old style grips from Ruger.....hmm, anyone know if they will fit a Security Six?

 

[bsms]

Slightly better pictures for comparison...yes, I'm excited. Yesterday was the first time I had gone shooting in 5 years, if you don't count shooting in prep for a deployment
to Afghanistan in 2007...which was M4/M9, and not done for fun.

I tried to place the Hogue about where it sits on the gun. It needs a bigger hand than I have to provide...

I had forgotten how much I used to dislike finger grooves, and why.

 

[Nakanokalronin]

The stock grips look nice but the Hogue finger groove with the Ruger logo are the best feeling grips for the GP100 period.