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I tried one of those and hated it. I have an Altamont grip in wood of the same shape and they all are too small for my hands. Plus the angle is all wrong for me. Another issue with rubber on a grip for me is my shirt not sliding on them and exposing the gun.....but that is secondary to how they shoot.I can't help thinking you would be better off with Hogue Monogrips for the SP101:
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The grip angle suggests an attempt to give a revolver a semi-auto grip angle.View attachment 1040015
I did shave off the beavertail after this photo was taken. It just rounds off at the top now. So much better now that the grip angle is closer to 90*
The chart above was designed for traditional one hand/single action only bullseye competition.
It is patterned off the smith and Wesson target grips on my model 17. I do like a 1911 grip so maybe that's why they work so well for me.The grip angle suggests an attempt to give a revolver a semi-auto grip angle.
Nice woodworking and you must have some gigantic meat hooks on ya. Looks like you carved that grip from a tree trunk.View attachment 1040015
I did shave off the beavertail after this photo was taken. It just rounds off at the top now. So much better now that the grip angle is closer to 90*
Even a 686 with a 2.5" barrel is pleasant to shoot with full loads. Its a full size gun with a heavy under lug and a muzzle heavy feel. It just has a short barrel. Its nothing like shooting the K frame Smith or Ruger equivalent.I have a 686 with a 7 in barrel and it shoots like a semi auto they have their stuff figured out with that one ! I have a 10 year old girl that likes to shoot it even with mag loads .
I don't have overly large hands, I don't have sausage fingers, just a large glove size. I think my preference for large grips has to do with age and nerve damage in my shoulders and wrists with impingements. I also am getting more essential tremors in my hands as I age. The smaller the object I hold the more my hands shake.Nice woodworking and you must have some gigantic meat hooks on ya. Looks like you carved that grip from a tree trunk.
Nice! Looks comfortable.I don't have overly large hands, I don't have sausage fingers, just a large glove size. I think my preference for large grips has to do with age and nerve damage in my shoulders and wrists with impingements. I also am getting more essential tremors in my hands as I age. The smaller the object I hold the more my hands shake.
I built this set of grips for my Colt King Cobra as the factory grips are thin.....
I've always had a slight tremor in hand/arms, and more now at 75. Didn't realize it when a kiddie because I learned to shoot on full size handguns. In my twenties and beyond, when I started buying guns of my own, some I couldn't shoot well at all. Turns out its all the light ones I can't shoot well offhand. J frame Smiths, Charter Arms Bulldog and Pathfinder, Glock 23. I need the gun to be at least about 30 ounces unloaded, or I can't shoot it well offhand. That amount of weight stabilizes the gun so the tremor vanishes, even now at age 75. For me, its weight that matters with respect to stabilizing tremor, and this makes sense physically. Your Colt with the underlugged barrel should do a good job of stabilizing the tremor. My EDC is "Buddy", a 686 snubby that is rock solid in my hands. He weighs 36 ounces empty. Heavy for an EDC, but I need that weight. Especially since my EDC needed to protect my duck flock against small predators such as racoons, possums, and skunks, sometimes at a distance.I don't have overly large hands, I don't have sausage fingers, just a large glove size. I think my preference for large grips has to do with age and nerve damage in my shoulders and wrists with impingements. I also am getting more essential tremors in my hands as I age. The smaller the object I hold the more my hands shake.
I built this set of grips for my Colt King Cobra as the factory grips are thin.....
I started having tremors (65) and got some medication from my doctor - Propranolol. It is similar to Neurontin. It seems to work very well.I've always had a slight tremor in hand/arms, and more now at 75. Didn't realize it when a kiddie because I learned to shoot on full size handguns. In my twenties and beyond, when I started buying guns of my own, some I couldn't shoot well at all. Turns out its all the light ones I can't shoot well offhand. J frame Smiths, Charter Arms Bulldog and Pathfinder, Glock 23. I need the gun to be at least about 30 ounces unloaded, or I can't shoot it well offhand. That amount of weight stabilizes the gun so the tremor vanishes, even now at age 75. For me, its weight that matters with respect to stabilizing tremor, and this makes sense physically. Your Colt with the underlugged barrel should do a good job of stabilizing the tremor. My EDC is "Buddy", a 686 snubby that is rock solid in my hands. He weighs 36 ounces empty. Heavy for an EDC, but I need that weight. Especially since my EDC needed to protect my duck flock against small predators such as racoons, possums, and skunks, sometimes at a distance.
Size of grips doesn't affect tremor as best I can tell but does affect my ability to shoot well for other reasons. Optimal conformation allows me to hold outstretched gun with minimal cocking of wrist and in such a way that my trigger finger engages the trigger in such a way that the trigger pull is straight back instead of pushing gun sideways. I can't shoot J frame Smiths well in part because they are just too small for my trigger finger to engage trigger correctly.
The tremor doesn't affect some kinds of shooting. Bench rest, if course. And a very stable sitting position I have with elbows on bent knees. Also, shooting at moving targets. Or point shooting. Or shooting from the hip fast. I do these firing DA, as part of what is involved is letting shot off as gun moves past the target. The double action makes it easier to control exactly when the gun fires. The tremor doesnt matter because the gun is moving when fired and gun's motion stabilizes it. I don't use the sights for such games. One can be pretty accurate point shooting a gun with an underlugged barrel without using the sights at all as it is easy for the hand to feel where a muzzle heavy barrel is pointed.