This question calls for the expertise of John Hurst friend OIF2.
This pair of checkered 2-piece J frame grips were presented to me as having been made by Guy Hogue. The backstory is that they came from a retired LAPD officer who remembers them as being by Guy Hogue. The pictures are from the current owner who forwarded them through a friend.
There's more to the story -- but it's not my story to tell. Mystery.......
The grips jump out to me as being in the style of John Hurst, another LAPD officer. Cues include the slightly rounded points of the finger grooves, the checkering pattern and the general shape of the grips. They are a match to pictures posted by OIF2. They are not like any Hogue grips I've seen in person or in pictures except in a very general sense.
I suggest the retired officer may be mistaken in a 40+ year old memory. He might have had another pair of grips that did come from Hogue.
As noted in other discussions, any of the LAPD grip makers could make a grip in the style of the others. I have pictures of a Farrant style grip with inletting that suggest Hurst. So -- Hogue may have made the grips, but he was copying Hurst.
Not my pictures but used with permission. I have pictures of Hurst J frame grips, but they're not mine.
Please chime in with your thoughts.
This pair of checkered 2-piece J frame grips were presented to me as having been made by Guy Hogue. The backstory is that they came from a retired LAPD officer who remembers them as being by Guy Hogue. The pictures are from the current owner who forwarded them through a friend.
There's more to the story -- but it's not my story to tell. Mystery.......
The grips jump out to me as being in the style of John Hurst, another LAPD officer. Cues include the slightly rounded points of the finger grooves, the checkering pattern and the general shape of the grips. They are a match to pictures posted by OIF2. They are not like any Hogue grips I've seen in person or in pictures except in a very general sense.
I suggest the retired officer may be mistaken in a 40+ year old memory. He might have had another pair of grips that did come from Hogue.
As noted in other discussions, any of the LAPD grip makers could make a grip in the style of the others. I have pictures of a Farrant style grip with inletting that suggest Hurst. So -- Hogue may have made the grips, but he was copying Hurst.
Not my pictures but used with permission. I have pictures of Hurst J frame grips, but they're not mine.
Please chime in with your thoughts.
