Surprisingly good fit

[desmobob]

I'm a larger than average guy and rifles and shotguns never fit me well off the shelf. I rejoiced when shotgun makers started offering shim systems to adjust fit. Adding some additional cast off, drop and LOP is just what I needed.

For pistols, I remember the Glock 22 as being one of the first I tried that really felt like it was made for my hand. A CZ-75B also feels like a natural fit to me.

 

[.455_Hunter]

For me, the ones the absolutely do not fit me are Glocks...

1. Feels like holding a 2x2.
2. Grip angle completely unnatural.
3. Finger grooves 180 degrees out of phase (my fingers ride the top of the bumps).

I can usually make pretty much anything else work, except the bottom folder Yugo M70 AK clone I had for awhile- It was also an ergonomic disaster.

 

[desmobob]

Miss-post... please delete.

 

[desmobob]

For me, the ones the absolutely do not fit me are Glocks...

1. Feels like holding a 2x2.
2. Grip angle completely unnatural.
3. Finger grooves 180 degrees out of phase (my fingers ride the top of the bumps).

Surprising. After buying the Gen. 2 Glock 22 and finding how much I liked it, I then bought a Glock 21. "Feels like holding a 2x4" is exactly how I described that Gen. 2 large frame Glock. Though it was extremely accurate, I sold it (and it stands alone as the only handgun I've ever sold). The large frame Glocks feel plain horrible to my hands.

 

[doubleh]

I bird hunted for years with a Winchester Mod 24 12 guage sxs and it must have fit pretty good as I killed a lot of birds with that heavy rascal. Eventually I bought a Valmet 12 guage o/u, a much lighter gun but It was a chore to kill birds with it as it just didn't fit well. Then I bought one of the Japanese built 20 guage o/u Ithaca guns. It really fits me well and is amazingly lighter than that old Winchester plus it is pretty.

I made one foray into semi-auto shotguns with a Wiinchester 12 guage gas operated thing that was about a handy as a fence post. I did manage a fair number of birds with it the one season I carried it but then I found someone to take it of my hands. Somewhere in there I took in trade a Stevens single barrel 12 guage that the barrel had been cut to 24" and a crooked cut to boot. I straightened it up, made a front sight from a piece of sheet metal and a bb, and carried it one season. That thing was deadly as long as you didn't let a bird get too far away but it was very fast to get into action and most didn't make it out of range.

I still have the Ithaca. All the rest are long gone.

 

[Deus Machina]

Congrats on the Stevens. Refinished my dad's old double-barrel for him, brought it back from the dead. Good memories there.
His is a basic utilitarian model, but indeed it just feels... right.

Anyway, things that fit me well? I have an affinity for my Mosin Nagant, after adding a cheap butt pad. Don't know if it's fit or familiarity.
My CZ PCR felt perfect from day one. Love those things.
My AK actually feels right. And I do all the manipulation right-handed, like it was designed for your basic conscript. Works well that way.
My AR, too, but that's a mix of design and customizing. The steeper K2 grip works perfectly for me.

 

[PapaG]

Ithaca 100, 870 TB, 94 Winchester, 336 Marlin. Any 1911 and my SP101. Glocks, no.

 

[Speedo66]

Model isn’t marked. I need to spend some time to figure it out. 2 triggers, pretty plain. Old enough to have plenty patina and the blued bits are all brown. Fixed chokes, but I don’t know what those are yet.

By photo I would guess that it’s a 325 with a replacement buttstock. 325 guns had some checkering but mine does not, so I assume it to be a replacement stock from another model using the same reciever or very similar reciever. It is a Chicopee Falls gun maker marked as J Stevens Arms and Tool.

Could be a 311. My Springfield, a brand used by Stevens, isn't marked on the barrels, but in tiny numbers on the lower rear of the right side of the receiver it's marked 5100. Basically the same action as the 311.

 

[Deus Machina]

Could be a 311. My Springfield, a brand used by Stevens, isn't marked on the barrels, but in tiny numbers on the lower rear of the right side of the receiver it's marked 5100. Basically the same action as the 311.

Seconded. My dad's is a 5100. Had to find some parts, and 311 trigger guard and barrels dropped right on. Fitting the barrel involved exactly three taps with a punch in the pivot--better than I'd expect from the next number off the same line.
It does look like his, minus the front he made in the garage to fit winter gloves on a 6'6" man.

FWIW, they did stop using the 5100 number after 1941. So if it is, enjoy the antique.

 

[Bruce D Pease]

Best fitting/pointing guns for me..
1851 colt navy ( 44… I know it never existed, but I love the fit in my large arthritic hands)
M1 Garand …. From day one when I was issued it in ‘59 it just fit, lined up, whatever you want to call it, and still does, but it’s not the one I was issued, this one comes from CMP

 

[Gerd33]

Most Marlin Levers fit well,
Also my Sig 229 and perhaps surprisingly my CZ82.

One that I purchased that felt great in the hand was a CZ Rami, Unfortunately it wasn't nearly as comfortable for me to shoot for some reason so I sold it off fairly quickly.

On the other side I've always wanted a Beretta 92 but every one I've picked up has felt like utter crap in my hand.

 

[entropy]

I finally got my double barrel yesterday. It got held up along the way due to weather then I got delayed on background check, but I finally have it home. I’m excited about the gun, but I am thrilled at how well it fits me. I haven’t shot an old Stevens sxs before and I bought this one online so it was a bit of a gamble, but it paid off. Eyes closed and manipulating it all kinds of ways, put it on the shoulder and it just lines right up. The only other guns that fit me this well is the contender with the grips everybody else hates, and the J frame with Altamont Altai grips.

What guns have you ran across that just really fit?

My wife has 1 as well, a Glock 42 that she point shoots like it’s an extension of her pointer finger. She picked it up at the shop and immediately knew it was what she wanted. Too bad I can’t get her to shoot with me more often.

Rifle: Remington 740/760 series. Remington 722.
Pistol: 1911, BHP, Colt Python, Trooper.

Shotgun: Rem. 11-48, 58, 1100, 870, Ljutic MonoGun.

 

[J-Bar]

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[J-Bar]

Editing a quotation can be difficult (sigh).

 

[gobsauce]

My type 54, a Chinese Tokarev. First time I held it, it felt natural. It's ugly, and awkward for some, but absolutely natural.

 

[Zaydok Allen]

View media item 2615This one, after I put LOK grips on it.
And this one, right out of the box.

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• Zaydok Allen
• May 11, 2020

 

[Johnm1]

Eyes closed and manipulating it all kinds of ways, put it on the shoulder and it just lines right up.

I too found that a double barrel shotgun fits me better than the current production pump or semi shotguns. In my case as I’m only 5’-7” and the distance between my shoulder and eye has to be shorter than the average the current production shotguns are made to fit. In order to line my eye up on an 870 or the like I have to tilt my head after shouldering the firearm. But my Fox Sterlingworth just goes to my eye.

My first SxS was the Savage version of your Stevens and it fit well. The Fox is, well a Fox and swings so well. I had a Fox 20 gauge for a while and it was a pure joy to shoulder/swing, but I couldn’t hit a thing with it.