I believe the price variance your seeing is a result of the confusion between Elk Antler and genuine Stag antler that I mentioned
in my last post above. Elk is in, or should be in, the $150 ball park.
True Stags are in the $300-$350 ball park.
Anyone like Stag and Jigged bone?
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I believe the price variance your seeing is a result of the confusion between Elk Antler and genuine Stag antler that I mentioned
in my last post above. Elk is in, or should be in, the $150 ball park.
True Stags are in the $300-$350 ball park.
Good question! Study the Elk antler grips shown above and compare with my Stags and the other two pair pictured above. Genuine stag is much more 'knarly' in appearance with deep grooves and dark color. The dark color is actually dried velvet and blood that the animal can not scrape off because of the deep crevices. The polished area is usually cream colored but can be white as one pair of mine above. The very knarly areas come from the antler bases down closer to the head and is known/described as 'popcorn'.
Elk antler is very much smoother and seldom has any deep grooves and never any popcorn. The animal has no trouble scraping all the velvet off of the much smoother antler surface. The polished area is always very white. Often the porous inner antler will show around the edges since it's much harder to get large enough-around pieces of elk antler for the larger grip sizes.
Because it's so rare and expensive, many genuine stag grips these days are not that great and will also show some porous areas since makers will try to use smaller pieces of 'rounds' that were discarded in the old days or saved for knife handles.
Hope that helps.
I also notice that a lot of people mistake Jigged Bone for Stag. I really love the way Jigged Bone feels in the hand though, and if I had my choice between Elk, Stag, or Jigged Bone I think I would always go with a nice set of old Jigged Bone.
Yes they do, I agree. I actually prefer jigged bone to elk. Bone has the nicer natural
cream/yellow color.
The color in the grooves is added and often wears away. But I have restored
several pair with felt tip Furniture Touch-Up pens in different shades of brown and then a
thorough re-polish.
jsfricks
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I never knew that about the color added on the jigged bone. Thanks for the education Jim! I have a set of jigged bone grips headed my way, but their attached to this Texas lawman's gun.
COYOTEHUNTER
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I found a pair in a gun store while I was in California, they seemed a little too nice to pass up and after a very small amount of fitting work they went on beautifully.
I've come to a conclusion that not all stags are created equal, and each set can be pretty, or not. I am pretty happy with this particular set.
Anyone have any stags on their old hand ejectors?
Those sure would look purdy on my 1917.
. I like em, a lot! 
hardcase60
Member
Gentlemen,
Any info. on where to find these types of grips for the new to me I frame ".32 Hand Ejector Round Butt Model of 1953"? Thanks for any assistance.
hardcase60
Any info. on where to find these types of grips for the new to me I frame ".32 Hand Ejector Round Butt Model of 1953"? Thanks for any assistance.
hardcase60
05CarbonDRZ
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If you can enlarge my avatar on the forum you'll see a lovely .38-44 with excellent looking stag grips.
***GRJ***
If you can enlarge my avatar on the forum you'll see a lovely .38-44 with excellent looking stag grips.
***GRJ***
jsfricks
Member
I have several pair of Grashorn grips and they are great......
Hondo; never thought "real stags" were in the $300-350 range.... WOW .... got to double check a couple of old grips... one set of Magna stocks and one set of old style Service stocks.......I don't think they are Elk.
Hondo; never thought "real stags" were in the $300-350 range.... WOW .... got to double check a couple of old grips... one set of Magna stocks and one set of old style Service stocks.......I don't think they are Elk.
Here are some Patrick Grashorn elk antler grips on my .38/.44
Old antler grips are very unlikely to be elk, that's a recent thing as a result of the real stag scarcity. I'd bet my bottom dollar they're genuine stag: either Sambar Stag, German Stag like on Puma knives, or English Stag.
Randall knives with genuine stag:
Richard,
Oh my goodness, that is beautiful, classic top quality Sambar Stag!
Yes, the very nice bark can be too rough to use when shooting magnums or high recoil calibers.
Some will sacrifice some bark by making them smoother or use the highly figured grips on other
guns or just for show.
Oh my goodness, that is beautiful, classic top quality Sambar Stag!
Yes, the very nice bark can be too rough to use when shooting magnums or high recoil calibers.
Some will sacrifice some bark by making them smoother or use the highly figured grips on other
guns or just for show.
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Hondo reading your last post......
I just realized that all my "stag/elk" grips are on my 17s and 18...... and my RM for show ( it did not have it original grips when I saved it from a LGS; marked as a "S&W .357 magnum")
I just realized that all my "stag/elk" grips are on my 17s and 18...... and my RM for show ( it did not have it original grips when I saved it from a LGS; marked as a "S&W .357 magnum")
MrTrolleyguy
US Veteran
Great information Hondo44. Can you tell us new folk about Jigged Bone? They sounds interesting.
Thanks in advance.
Joe
Larry from Bend
Member
Elk Antler on my 44 Special.
Thank you for the reply. I was pretty sure they were real, but not sure exactly what they were made of. It is an early 1950 .357 Magnum and a real nice gun.
Did some digging this morning...... yep I say two pair of stag grips....both K-frame sq. butt......Thanks Hondo.....
Picked up the old style (pre war) service stocks at a LGS going out of business.....the only gun they ever looked right on was my Dad's 1948 4" M&P....but that needs to stay original .....as it gets passed on.
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