686-7 MG…Couldn’t take the Bear Hugs anymore
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SGT ROCK 11B
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Shooting Magnum rounds I go with Pachmyr grips as first choice. Hogue is good too.
Yendor357
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Ya know, the longer I look at those factory walnut Bear Hug slabs, the uglier they get.
Finally saw the new 686 MG at the gun store, they want full MSRP though. I asked to handle it to see if my initial observation on the grips 4 months ago at the NRA still holds true. It does. I find it comfortable and just right for my hand. The only thing I'm not sure is, when shooting full power .357 rounds, will the back of the trigger guard smack my knuckle of my middle finger.
Of all the possible grips S&W could have put on the ~$1300 686 Mountain Gun, they picked the worst. They're OE and I'll hold on to them because of that, but otherwise they're just scraps of firewood, to me.
Don't look at them.
Take them off and put them in the blue plastic case, never to be seen again.
Rock185
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While the factory grips fit my hand just fine, I'd have to agree they are ugly, and thin enough at the top to cause bloodshed to some of us using Magnum ammo. I don't know why they were so ballyhooed as being a desirable feature of the new MGs. I wonder if those grips were just marketing hype, thought up by some MBA marketing major who never shot a Mountain Gun with Magnum ammo? Sure seems to be plenty of new owners, me included, changing to another type of grip for one reason or another
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