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09-16-2018, 10:06 AM
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So I found the stock grips
Was flailing around in the attic yesterday and came across the original grips for my 686-4 that I bought,,, a long time ago. They were replaced with some rubber Pachmayr grips that made the gun a little,,, no, a lot more comfortable to shoot. Since I usually shoot .38's in the gun now I figure I can endure the pain of the wood grips and besides, they look a lot better.
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09-16-2018, 10:32 AM
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Stock grips look better and add value but all of my shooters have Hogue grips.
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09-16-2018, 04:01 PM
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I think if you're shooting .38's it'll feel like a .22 in that gun and rubber grips won't really be a necessity. I do like the hogues on my Model 19 better, but mild .38's in that gun feel like nothing. It's a 6"er. And I'm sure yours is even heavier.
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09-16-2018, 04:16 PM
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Heh, I think it's kind of neat... back when I got my 686-3, I ordered it from a friend of the family who was a kitchen table FFL, so when it came to me, it was direct from a distributor and had never been in any gun shop.
Two weeks before it arrived, I went to a little gun store and paid retail for a Pachmayr SK-G grip for it and installed that big 'ole rubber Goodyear on my brand new 686.
I carefully placed the Goncalo Alves Target stocks inside the Pachmayr packaging and they haven't been on any revolver since the first day that 686 came out of it's box.
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09-16-2018, 05:50 PM
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Originally Posted by PeterJ
Was flailing around in the attic yesterday and came across the original grips for my 686-4 that I bought,,, a long time ago. They were replaced with some rubber Pachmayr grips that made the gun a little,,, no, a lot more comfortable to shoot. Since I usually shoot .38's in the gun now I figure I can endure the pain of the wood grips and besides, they look a lot better.
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They look infinitely better than anything with a "P" branded on them. But those original grips are almost as big as the gun itself! Altamont & Ahrends can easily help that though!
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09-16-2018, 06:45 PM
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Originally Posted by HamHands
They look infinitely better than anything with a "P" branded on them.
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I understand this feeling even though I don't agree. My formative years were spent in a smoke basement range where the cops were shooting PPC early Saturday mornings, and every revolver on the line wore Pachmayr.
I feel the same way you feel about every grip that Hogue has ever made, especially the horrendous Hogue rubber that was OEM on S&W revolvers in the late 90's and 2000's, and the awful Hogue that was original to many Ruger GP-100's too.
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