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The attached two photos show my latest outside-the-box insight. I have been using a modified DeSantis pocket holster (not the one in the attached photos) with my 442 for quite awhile, but have had to actually use duct tape to keep it securely anchored in the pocket. That method has the serious...

PR24: All that machining must've cost you, eh? I'm going back and forth with the wish to buy a 340PD and carry that loaded with .38+P, or, just keep the 442 and not worry about the little bit of extra weight. Keeping the gun I've got and "marrying it", so to speak, would be the easier thing to...

I hardly ever buy a gun, so keeping records wouldn't be much of anything at all, and as for the 24/7 access … I'd list my home as my place of business, and if authorities wanted to come in and look around it wouldn't be much of a bother as long as they took off their shoes so they didn't...

J.R. Weems––I like those smooth grips. How do you like the way they feel when you shoot that snubby? Are the grips available nowadays? I'm not at all sure that I'm responding to a specific picture; but the one I'm referring to is the stainless gun with the slider-thing on the rear that, I...

TACC1 Thanks for your interest. I already have a set of Crimson Trace grips and I just don't like that red dot out there. I realize that I could just turn off the laser, but then I'd still have the extra bulk in my hand and in my pocket. I have a set of wooden grips on order from Craig Spegel...

Lee's Red Ramps … hmmm. Thanks. And, appliance paint––another good idea. About the Crimson Trace: I have a set and I keep them in their little box. I find that when those grips are on the gun I look for the red dot first thing, and then try to make the aim be perfect … and that all takes a lot...

Thank you all for some good input. BTW, I have been doing almost all my shooting up close and without aiming, but am now wanting to do some aimed shooting––that's how the issue of the sights is coming to my attention now. My .22 43C has one of those XS big dots out front, and it's really...

Anybody ever done anything to improve the sights (so-called) on a 442? I just now put some sight paint on the ramp and on the vertical part of the rear notch. It's just paint, and I know it isn't going to last through much going into and out of the pocket holster. Might there be some truly good...

HotRod––right. I did try some ArmorAll on a Hoague Monogrip, and that may have done a little bit to slick 'em up, but not a lot that I can tell. I do have some wooden grips on order. I'm developing some knobby joints in the palms of my hands, and I'm experiencing some soreness there if I shoot...

Hotrod––The pictures are exactly showing the two sets of grips I have. The Uncle Mike's, on the left, is what's on the 442, and the other ones, are what came on my 43C .22 snubby…and they are tackier than the UM's. The .22 is what I shoot for practice, and almost never carry it around, and so I...

Has anyone dealt with getting the stock Uncle Mike's grips that come (came) on my 442 to be less tacky? I find them very acceptable in all ways except that they hang up a little bit on the pocket lining when I pull the gun out of my pants pocket. I might try Armor-All, but I don't want to overdo...

Hey again: I think you may be right. I looked at my 442, and sure enough, there's a little hole there in the frame behind the thumb-thing that releases the cylinder. Guess I just never paid attention to it and thought it was there for lubrication or something. As I recall 4eversnubby names the...

Don––Reminds me of the time I was driving taxi in San Francisco late in the evening and had two drunk fishermen in the back taking them to a pier. They were going on and on between themselves and one of them made a mention of how his boat had once dragged up a drum in its net out by the...

Dave––I always carry my 442 in my pants pocket inside a specially-modified DeSantis holster. I opened up the holster and then cut it away so that when I put it all back together I have a holster that does not cover the trigger. It's not a tight fit in the pocket at all, but I can reach into my...

Roadkill45––thanks for the report on your research. But, anyway, just FYI, the gun was loaded with +P CorBon hollow points because I keep it loaded in the drawer. I was pulling it out of the drawer, preparing to put it into my pocket holster when the fumble took place. So, you've got the weight...