It amazes me that there are so many buyers out there that do not care if a nice, vintage, revolver is wearing original, or at least period-correct, grips. I cannot, will not, pay what amounts to "full price" for something wearing plastic or neoprene after-market grips and it baffles me sellers don't understand this. Perhaps they just don't care about my gripes (that's not uncommon) because they generally sell for the asking price to someone else who doesn't mind an "altered" firearm without some discount.
I have acquired many that no longer sport original grips but do make some attempt to find decent-fitting "replicas" of some sort. The pre-Model 15 looks better without neoprene I think and so does the 10.
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Ordnung muss sein
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