I agree with this. I'm lucky enough to have a set my size. I've actually used the measurements on this set to re-shape some other targets to the same dimensions. Perfection.
It always amazes me that nobody (in the modern grip maker world) has made exact replica's. The closest would be the awesome Keith Brown Ropers. My set of KB's are very close to the originals I have.
After using Ropers, it's difficult to be happy with the bulky oversize dimensions of standard S&W targets.
Lesser grips are just not worth it any more!
I have to say, thats a heck of a nice N frame set. I bet you get a lot of PMs asking for you to sell them don't you?
On another note; as many of you are likely aware I very rarely get a gun that isn't wearing some horrid rubber grips, or at the very least incorrect stocks. As a matter of fact I only have a small handful that have stocks numbered to the gun.
This is actually my preference, partly because they are cheaper that way, but mostly because it gives me the ability to move stocks around until they land where they are supposed to land. It's one part aesthetics, one part history. To me the best result is a set of interesting stocks on an interesting gun that no one would guess hadn't been together for many decades. At this point buying stocks is the more important thing to me, as buying new guns is somewhat limited due to budgetary concerns.
That does mean however that I end up having a bit of a stock shuffle when one set supplants another set as being more suitable to the gun. That is of course the case in the situation that started this thread, with the new Ropers bumping the old Ropers to the M&P King Super Target, but that in turn bumped the third tier Ropers off of that gun.
The Roper Shuffle has had me kind of scratching my head, as I'm kind of running out of K-Frames that
need Ropers. I think though I have landed on the right combo. This is one of my favorite guns, and it came to me wearing some pachmayrs, so I immediately put the most suitable stocks I had on hand on the gun, and it sat that way for years. Then, this gun which I already liked, proved to be a grand slam in terms of SWHF documentation.
If you are unfamiliar with this gun, I know of few better advertisements for the SWHF:
Half Target M&P, Update: Another Police Gun!
I obviously loved the gun much more upon reading these wonderful letters about it. And I've never been quite happy with the stocks that are on it. So today the gun got a set of Roper hand-me-downs. I'd like to think that they would have been quite pleasing to Mr. Watts, and that he may even have had such a set on his gun at one time.
What do you guys think? Has the music in our game of 'Roper Musical Chairs' stopped at the right point?
I have to say I love the way the gun feels in the hand now, it points so naturally. Ropers being what they are of course that is bound to be the case, but I imagine Holway would have really liked it a lot with Gagne's handiwork gracing the frame.
Still, some part of my hesitates because I'm hung up on Ropers going onto guns with adjustable sights. In any case, that's why I'm curious for the opinions of you guys.
