Smith and Wesson grip ID help?

[Noxx]

My recently acquired model 25 came with the following target grips. After some searching online I haven't seen anything like them, and would like to know where they might be from if the ring a bell.

Per Radagast's thread, the revolver should be 1959, no idea on the age of the stocks, but I might like to find some originals to replace them with.
It also came with an odd clamp on compensator, that seemed out of character but was marked S&W.

Thanks

 

[Master Blaster]

Some type of Herretts combat grips for ppc competition. If they are they could be quite valuable.

 

[Noxx]

Thanks MB, I am using the company name to hunt photos atm. I keep finding things that are close, but not quite. It's own amusement, at least.

 

[pharmer]

Google up Fuzzy Farrant. The front of the frame has been modified. Joe

 

[bannockburn]

Pharmer beat me to it. The stocks look very much like those made by Fuzzy Farrant.

 

[9mmepiphany]

Yup, third vote for Fuzzy Farrant grips. I don't know of another grip made which requires shaving off the front toe of the frame to fit inside the grips.

Has the front of the frame of you M-25 been chopped?

If not, it is unlikely that it will fit into those grips

 

[Noxx]

It has! I didn't even really notice, as it came with the grips on it. There's about a 30 degree angle cut across the toe

 

[Noxx]

Oh wow, I found the catalogue page, they are indeed Fuzzies.. made right here in my hometown. far out man!

Now this all makes sense. The original owner of the revolver was LAPD (LASD?) Bomb Squad from the sixties. That is some fascinating info.

 

[9mmepiphany]

I was, at one time, going to put a pair on my duty Python...but I couldn't bring myself to grind off the front of the grip frame. If it had been a S&W, I would have done it in a moment

 

[Noxx]

Thanks for the help guys. Got her cleaned up, someone stoned the trigger a touch too, might have been used as a competition shooter at some point.

 

[Jim Watson]

Good catch.
Of course a 1911 collector would be having a spasm about this time over the gall of anybody modifying one of his pets to make it shoot better. Doesn't seem to bother the S&W folks, the gunsmiths are part of the family tree.

I remember seeing those S&W muzzle brakes in Gil Hebard's catalog but never did see one actually on a gun.
There were a lot of brakes and ports for target pistols in those days, High Standards came with them and you could get one for a Ruger Mk I. The original S&W M41 came with one and I bet somebody made one for a Woodsman, too.

By the way, what shape is the mainspring? Straight or U or W shaped?

 

[ArchAngelCD]

Nice revolver and I like the target grips too.

How about a photo or two of the break on the revolver? Thanks...

 

[Noxx]

The mainspring is straight, as straight as normal for an N frame in my limited experience.

 

[CajunBass]

An interesting aside.

Officer Pete Malloy (Martin Millner) , in the TV series "Adam 12" back in the day, had Fuzzy Farrent grips on his revolvers (Smith & Wesson 14/15's).

 

[steve8261948]

Definately Fuzzy Farrants.
Steve

 

[Cocked & Locked]

More Fuzzy on a Python. Some Farrant stocks were made that didn't require the bottom of the grip frame to be cut.

 

[Jim Watson]

Hogue made some nice looking grips in that general style before he designed the Monogrip.

 

[Lucky Derby]

An interesting aside.

Officer Pete Malloy (Martin Millner) , in the TV series "Adam 12" back in the day, had Fuzzy Farrent grips on his revolvers (Smith & Wesson 14/15's).

As was quite common among LAPD (& other SoCal LEOs) at that time. Especially one who was a sharpshooter like Malloy. IIRC Officer Jim Reed (Kent McCord) got Farrents for his M15 in the final season.

 

[Lucky Derby]

More Fuzzy on a Python. Some Farrant stocks were made that didn't require the bottom of the grip frame to be cut.

That is beautiful.