Oninotaki
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Hello everybody, I just thought some of you might find my experiences with grips for my S&W Governor to be interesting. It took my 4 different pairs before I found a set that I liked. With the Governor I found the biggest challenge to be blending style with functionality. I love wood grips and I even have a favorite style of them that you can find in this thread https://www.thehighroad.org/index.php?threads/do-you-have-a-favorite-grip-cause-i-got-mine.915007/
However those grips aren’t made for the S&W frame the Governor uses, so I had to start from scratch. These are my results.
-1 Stock Grips: Small in my hands, comfortable when shooting .45 acp, and .45 colt cowboy loads, miserable in the webbing when shooting .410, ugly.
-2 Pachmayr Wood Grips: Look great, felt better in the hand than stock grips until I shot more than a cylinder, then they were too slippery and really hard to maintain a grip with.
-3 Crimson Trace Laser Grips: Good grip, comfortable to shoot with the exposed back strap, less slippery than Pachmayr, more slipper than stock grips. Biggest problem was that my hands are too big to activate the laser with the button located in the finger grooves without contorting my hands. This essentially made the laser useless.
-4 Altamont Falconia Combat Grip w/ Insert: Perfect. Look good, feels great. Not slippery, not too tacky. Exposed back strap is very comfortable in thumb webbing no matter what I shoot out of the Governor. Hands down no contest worth the months of wait time and 3 cancellations from Altamont saying they were not sure when they would be available again. 10/10.
However those grips aren’t made for the S&W frame the Governor uses, so I had to start from scratch. These are my results.
-1 Stock Grips: Small in my hands, comfortable when shooting .45 acp, and .45 colt cowboy loads, miserable in the webbing when shooting .410, ugly.
-2 Pachmayr Wood Grips: Look great, felt better in the hand than stock grips until I shot more than a cylinder, then they were too slippery and really hard to maintain a grip with.
-3 Crimson Trace Laser Grips: Good grip, comfortable to shoot with the exposed back strap, less slippery than Pachmayr, more slipper than stock grips. Biggest problem was that my hands are too big to activate the laser with the button located in the finger grooves without contorting my hands. This essentially made the laser useless.
-4 Altamont Falconia Combat Grip w/ Insert: Perfect. Look good, feels great. Not slippery, not too tacky. Exposed back strap is very comfortable in thumb webbing no matter what I shoot out of the Governor. Hands down no contest worth the months of wait time and 3 cancellations from Altamont saying they were not sure when they would be available again. 10/10.