Taurus 856 Followed Me Home

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kje54

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Ordered an 856CH from my LSG's website. Placed the order late at night and was mostly looking at the price........ The other day I discovered what CH meant, Concealed Hammer, I'm an exposed hammer kinda guy.
So today it arrives, go to pick it up and surprise, surprise! They sent me the wrong model, they sent me an 856 with an exposed hammer!! Oh happy days!!!!
Now I need to replace that anemic, girly grip with a man sized one.

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What's interesting is as I look for larger grips almost every grip I see looks to be about the same size as the stock grips. Without having the grips in hand it would be almost impossible to find what I'm looking for and I's sure as heck not going to buy a slew of grips just to try out unless I can return them at free of cost to me. Ahhhhh yes, frustration.
 
kje54 said:
What's interesting is as I look for larger grips almost every grip I see looks to be about the same size as the stock grips. Without having the grips in hand it would be almost impossible to find what I'm looking for and I's sure as heck not going to buy a slew of grips just to try out unless I can return them at free of cost to me. Ahhhhh yes, frustration.
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Hogue grips are what I carried and used for years on mine. They're comfortable and allows for a full grip, but are ugly.

Altamont has wood grips:
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I've seen a few with these ebay stocks on their 85, 856, and 605s.... I will most likely end up purchasing a pair each of the last two pictured for myself.
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Unfortunately, unless you buy on Amazon, you're not going to be able to try them out first and return them for free.
 
Styx said:
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Hogue grips are what I carried and used for years on mine. They're comfortable and allows for a full grip, but are ugly.

Altamont has wood grips:
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I've seen a few with these ebay stocks on their 85, 856, and 605s.... I will most likely end up purchasing a pair each of the last two pictured for myself.
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Unfortunately, unless you buy on Amazon, you're not going to be able to try them out first and return them for free.
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Yup, I have Prime so free returns on Prime products. I looked at the first two (not Altimont) and they have very, very low review numbers with not so great reviews. I do like the one with the fleur de lis but I don't remember seeing them.
 
kje54 said:
Yup, I have Prime so free returns on Prime products. I looked at the first two (not Altimont) and they have very, very low review numbers with not so great reviews. I do like the one with the fleur de lis but I don't remember seeing them.
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www.ebay.com

New Combat Grip for Taurus Small Frame M85 605 850 851 856 941.38 Special #01 | eBay

Fit for models 85, 94, 380, 605, 650, 651, 850, 851, 856, 905, and 941. Condition: New.
www.ebay.com

Free returns, but you must pay shipping.
 
Congratulations. The grips from the (predecessor) Model 85 will fit just fine, so there are a bazillion choices out there. It's more or less a Smith copy that Taurus has been selling since 1984, so you could say that the bugs have been worked out by now. :)
 
Very nice 856, OP. I've considered a Taurus and after years of reading favorable reviews one may be in my future. Good luck with it.
 
kje54 said:
Ordered an 856CH from my LSG's website. Placed the order late at night and was mostly looking at the price........ The other day I discovered what CH meant, Concealed Hammer, I'm an exposed hammer kinda guy.
So today it arrives, go to pick it up and surprise, surprise! They sent me the wrong model, they sent me an 856 with an exposed hammer!! Oh happy days!!!!
Now I need to replace that anemic, girly grip with a man sized one.

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Looking good!! Like others have mentioned, 85, 605 etc grips fit. I personally like Pachmayr Compacts on most of my snubbies.
 
Mark 40 said:
Great choice, look fwd to hearing your impressions after a range trip. Enjoy.
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Range may be a while....... I've developed some eyesight problems, VA wants to give me an appointment 8 months out........ Waiting to see if Community Connections does any better before having to pay out of pocket.
 
kje54 said:
What's interesting is as I look for larger grips almost every grip I see looks to be about the same size as the stock grips.
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Not sure where you're looking. Grips I see range from little wood "splinter" type grips up to humongous VZ grips, to the really big almost plowhandle type grip they put on the "Executive grade" 856.
kje54 said:
Without having the grips in hand it would be almost impossible to find what I'm looking for and I's sure as heck not going to buy a slew of grips just to try out unless I can return them at free of cost to me. Ahhhhh yes, frustration.
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<shrug>. That's what I end up doing when I get a revolver new to me.

Yes, you really can't tell how a stock set is going to work for you without having it in hand, on the gun.
 
Styx said:
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Hogue grips are what I carried and used for years on mine. They're comfortable and allows for a full grip, but are ugly.
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Those fit my big hand oddly. The finger grooves don't work right for me. I ground them down quite a bit, and it works better. YMMV.
Styx said:
Altamont has wood grips:
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My second 856 came with those. OK grip. I needed to sand down one edge, where it was hitting my thumb joint wrong. Also need to relieve it for speedloaders to clear. When I had to go into Chicago this summer the lasergrip* came off and I put this on.

(*laser sights are verboten in Chicago.)

 
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Try the factory grips out before you do anything ... try them more than once .
I was all set to trash the grips that came with my Taurus 455 in 2005 ...but I shot it ... shot it ... shot it and funnything how well they worked ... the factory grips are still on the 455 .
And I never , well hardly ever, not replace grips with aftermarkets of some type ( I'm a self admitted Gripaholic ) but Taurus did a good design job on the 455 grip ... So give your grips a good try ... it is a concealed carry type revolver ... nice score , that Taurus and the grips , look Awesome !

And I thought I was the only person who still wanted hammers on my handguns ... lets form a club !
Gary
 
W.E.G. said:
The rubber grips are ugly.

No way around that.

But they sure do make the gun a lot more tolerable to shoot.

You know you ARE allowed to keep the rubber grips for the range, and put on the fancy ones for Church and Bar-B-Q.
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I don't find that the 17oz+ 38 +p kicks much to need the rubberized grips, but they sure are more comfortable in the hand than hard wood IMHO. I typically put Houge grips on all my carry revolvers especially my larger frame 357mags.

Just like you said, I also have several wood grips that I sometimes put on when I want to look pretty and/or take pretty pictures of my revolvers.
 
I have discovered something I do not like with this 856. If I'm not paying extra close attention when I pick it up my trigger finger naturally slides right over the trigger............. It's the smallness of the frame and where my trigger finger tries to rest on it and misses.
 
I've been happy with my 856 3" toro so far. Have a couple boxes thru it, mostly been a backup gun to date.
 
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