Need help identifying these N frame grips

Jeep 1 · Jan 19, 2025

These are very nicely made after market grips I'm trying to identify who produced them, they're not the average ones from Taiwan I don't think.
Thank you,
Tom

Engine49guy · Jan 19, 2025

Look like current production Altamont,
They look pretty but tend to be very flat in the back strap with a rather sharp edge as well as very long in the heel.
Iirc SW supplies them new with many of the classics such as the Model 19 etc.

Jeep 1 · Jan 19, 2025

Engine 49,
These seem to be thin in the back and feel much like the early coke's grip or Factory rubber Hogue finger grips, there's no broadness in the back except at the very bottom and that's below my hand palm by quite a bit The set on the left however are much like what you described.
Tom

Engine49guy · Jan 19, 2025

If you Google Smith Altamont you will see they bare alot of similarities, the added wood below the frame heel, the center pin, the N carved inside, the shape of the sculpting at the top and the style of laminate wood.
Altamont makes several varients and while they look nice I find they tend to bee too thin width wise and the backstrap square Ness hurts my palm with magnum rounds alot more than with thicker rounder styles.
The stocks on the left look more factory shaped but SW didn't use a brass screw, all were Stainless iirc so likely aftermarket.

hkcavalier · Jan 19, 2025

Altamonts. They fit someone's hand, but it's not mine. Ahrends and Hogue are far better for me.

Pizza Bob · Jan 19, 2025

Altamonts - the N routed on the inside is the tip-off.

Jeep 1 · Jan 19, 2025

I have too many N frames according to my wife and have held a lot of grips and all the grips I have are factory. The ones on the left are way fat and uncomfortable to shoot. I was just astounded that I found a pair that I didn’t think was all that bad that are aftermarket.
They came on a 29-3 that I bought and I replaced with factory grips

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