It's time to find some new grips for a few of my guns.
I have small hands with a deep curve to my palm and find that I need more palm swell to better fit my hand.
The three I want to find new grips for are my K-frame Model 65-5, round butt, L-frame 686+ round butt and my N-frame Model 29 square butt. I just don't like rubber grips at all, on top of being truly ugly IMHO I want to use wood to help prevent clothing cling when carrying.

Recommendations, please.

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I have small hands and really like the feel of my Hogue wood grips. I think they are called "big butt" grips, but I'm not sure.

Here are two of my guns with some grips you might like. Don

M66 Round butt with Hogue grips


M18 Sguare butt with Tyler T grip. You can get them for round butt to.

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How about some Ahrends round-butt Tactical grips?


I'd also second the Magnas + T-grips route:

YES!!! the ones in the top pic are just what I have in mind. They look like they would fit my oddly shaped hands.
Do they make something similar for the N-frame with a square butt?

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I'm partial to Ahrends and also have small hands. I've tried many other and keep coming back to them. I do have Uncle Mikes on 2 of my J frames and they are fantastic for pointability and absorbing recoil, especially with the .357. You can find them on E-Bay.

For the N frame Hogues are great. I took sandpaper to the ones (not original) on my 6" model 57 and shaved the front and side portions down till they felt good. That .41 mag has 37 deer to it's name in 29 years.

657 3" Ahrends RB FG's



19-3 Ahrends RB FG's



66-2 Ahrends Boot Grips



36-6 & 60-10 Uncle Mikes

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Yup:


(S&W Model 28-2 w/ Ahrends "Tactical" finger-groove Cocobolo-wood square-butt grips)

This is their website.

Great thread. I too am looking to replace a set of hogue rubber grips on a 66 no dash. The Ahrends Boot Grips look like just the thing I am looking for.

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I've found that on my Model 28-2 that Ahrends Retro target fit really well for my smallish hands ( as well as looking great!)

Again, thank you! I think I've found the perfect grips, the Ahrends Retro Combat grips(stocks?) seem like they should be perfect.
I called them today and described the problem I have with the stock walnut "Target" grips that came on it.
The Cordia wood in oil finish sounds like a beautiful contrast with the (almost black) blue finish. $86.00 shipped isn't bad at all.
I'm hoping a grip that fits my hands will improve my accuracy as well. My best so far has been a little over a 2 inches for 12 rounds fired one handed at 21 feet, I'd like to see that under 1.5 inches.

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Here's another option - Spegel Round Butt, K frame grips. I have large hands and these are borderline too small - probably perfect for your hands.

Jerry

Those are nice looking too, Jerry.
I'm not sure those would work for me, I have a square butt, err, wait that doesn't sound right, my Model 29 is a square butt.
I will check into those as well, though.

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The Ahrends Retro Combat grips are a bit round-er than the Tactical grips. They're also thinner than the S&W Target grips...

S&W Target grip panel on left, Ahrends Retro Combat grip panel on right:


Here you can see the difference in shape between the Retro Combats and the S&W Target grips:


a view from the butt-end of the grips; they're rounded at the bottom, which allows for less printing:


grip angle:

The Tactical grips are oval or elliptical shaped, and then squared-off on the front (and squared-off on the back for the square-butt and round-to-square versions). The Tactical grips honestly took a little getting used to, but after using them on my competition guns for almost two years, I prefer their look and feel to almost anything else...

front-strap on a round-to-square conversion set; the bottom of the grip is squared-off as well, which would probably print a bit under a cover garment:


another view of the front strap:


backstraps of various Tactical grips. left to right: round-butt, square-butt, round-to-square conversion, and another square-butt:

2" at at 21 feet is "combat accurate"--good enough to get the job done; what more do you want? To plug the same hole over and over?

Well...if you want that (especially one-handed) you oughtta get into Bullseye. And then you could join me in being the crazy competitors shooting wheelguns in a semi-automatic-dominated sport!

Ha, I've been trying to do that for 36 years now, I've gotten close to getting two in the same hole a couple times.
I am very driven, or competitive, or both. I compete with myself with every shot, trying to get better and better. I'm not sure if I am just a perfectionist or if I have OCD. Bullseye shooting sounds like it would be fun.
Oh and "semi-automatic", uhm, don't you mean "bottom feeders"?
That said now I'm wondering about those combat grips being thinner than the factory target grips? That might not work for me. Where I need more fullness is in the palm area, especially on the right side grip, pretty much in the screw area is where most grips seem too small for the curve of my hand.
Are the tactical grips fuller in that area than the combat grips?

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Because of their oval shape, I find myself not putting much pressure side-to-side on the Tactical grips, with most of the pressure instead being front to back. I feel that makes them more accurate to me, since I'm not influencing the guns side-to-side, at least in competition. The round-butt grips are something of an exception--my hand wraps around them a bit more (they're a little smaller), so my palm contacts the grips a bit better and probably works better when I'm practicing defensive shooting. The combat grips, being a bit more cylindrical in shape, fill the palms better. I never really liked them on my competition guns, but they'd probably work for a sidearm.