k frame grip question

[Slimbo]

does anyone have any idea what grips are on this gun?

http://www.gunbroker.com/Auction/ViewItem.asp?Item=133712669

i have the same gun and would like to try those out, they look somewhat similar to a hogue set i saw but the hogues looked to be slightly larger length wise.

 

[BCRider]

They may be Arrends (sp?) or they may well be Hogue or Arrends that someone cut down and refinished the bottom to make they more compact.

It's wood so it's not that hard to modify them.

 

[David E]

Looks like the Spegel boot grip, to me.

 

[9mmepiphany]

they look like Spegel boot grips to me too

 

[ArchAngelCD]

The grips in the link look like Craig Spegel grips to me too.

 

[.41Dave]

They are Altamont grips that have been cut down.

 

[pogo2]

Altamont boot grips

I believe the grips are Altamont K frame round butt boot grips in rosewood dymondwood. The webpage is here, but unfortunately Altamont does not show a picture of model SW00077, which sells for $50.

Altamont S&W webpage

I don't have the exact grips, but do have the Altamont J frame boot grips in walnut, which closely resemble the K frame, as shown below on a S&W model 36:

 

[Oro]

I agree with .41dave and pogo2 - mostly for the reason that I don't think Spegel uses plywood (aka "dymondwood") for his grips. Altamont is the king of that practice. Not railing against synthetic wood, it's just a stylistic choice and I don't think Spegel does that.

 

[strangelittleman]

I too think they might be Altamonts or Eagle Secret Service smooth

 

[doc2rn]

Hogue does make them like that although I just bought the rubberized K-frame grip for my 10-4. Love the finger grooves.

 

[girvin02]

The gun in that auction appears to be of the square-butt variety. All of the boot grips that I've seen are round-butt. Perhaps they are custom?

 

[krs]

No, the auction pistol is a round butt model 15, and those grips aren't all that hard to find in kind. Like this place, for one:http://www.gungripsupply.com/, or Badger's, or ebay...

 

[girvin02]

I was correct, that is a square butt frame, as verified by the owner via email. He does not know the brand of the grips. I think that .41Dave is correct. They look to be Altamont (SB) grips that have been cut down to be boot grips.

At a quick glance, they look like round butt grips, because of the way that the pictures are cropped.

 

[ArchAngelCD]

That has to be a square butt revolver because it's a M15-4 and S&W didn't start making the round butt M15 until the M15-7. (I think)