Best Grips for J-Frame Pocket Carry

[jcelect]

Grips

You need to use the grips that best fit YOU and not what someone else uses! When you raise the gun, the sights must be lined up or that grip is not for you. Here is a custom set made for me by Curt Harlow that work very well for me and allow the use of full moon clips with no hang ups!

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[Old cop]

You need to use the grips that best fit YOU and not what someone else uses! When you raise the gun, the sights must be lined up or that grip is not for you. Here is a custom set made for me by Curt Harlow that work very well for me and allow the use of full moon clips with no hang ups!

jcelect

My difficulty is finding a set meeting those requirements w/o compromising pocket carry.

 

[jcelect]

My difficulty is finding a set meeting those requirements w/o compromising pocket carry.

The point of my last post is to find a set that fill all of YOUR requirements and line the sights up properly for aimed fire! Curt Harlow makes custom grips and can probably make a set that will accomplish all of the above!
His email address [email protected]
jcelect

 

[G-Mac]

I have these elk stags for sale in the classifieds here.

 

[SmithNut]

Craig makes both kinds/styles of high horns - Centennial and Bodyguard - they are different - and these are Bodyguard for sure. I've got another set of Centennials I got within the past year, one of these days I'll mount them to my only Centennial - a M442 - and post a pic.... All are works of art...

BAM-BAM,
Got around to taking some quick pics comparing Spegel's Bodyguard and Centennial high horn grips... Not my best pics, but the first one should show you the major difference between the shape/length of the horns....

Click on the pics for a larger view....

Note....The dust is special NW pocket lint, I did the installation myself...

 

[walkin' trails]

Not as pretty, but Hogue Bantams are pretty good pocket revolver grips. Even though they don't provide any cushion to the backstrap, the panels are pliable enough to allow the shooter to get a firm firing grip and they provide some recoil dampening that way, or at least in terms of how they work for me. I have fired up to +P+ but no magnums with them. Not going to make a J-frame transmit the recoil impulses of a .22, but with standard or +P ammo, they're decent without the bulk of a larger grip.

 

[91B40]

J Frame Concealment

I'm old fashioned: I prefer magnas with a Tyler T for J frames carried in the pocket and for shooting J frames.

Doesn't create additional width or length and doesn't add the tackiness of the rubber grips.

My experience exactly. With this grip configuration in my 642, +P 158 JHP is hard on your hands in practice, but the concealment advantages offset that in my opinion.
I have tried about a washtub full of J Frame grips and keep coming back to this setup.

 

[model17]

J frame boot grip

These work for me!

 

[Anton Chigurh]

For me there is no optimal grip. The bantams offer too much filler behind the trigger guard and you either have to hold your hand lower than you should to get a straight pull on the trigger, or you raise it up so you're high in the back of the frame, then you're pulling upward on the top of the trigger and increasing the pull weight. Plus the revolver is pointing skyward and you have to drop your wrist like holding a Glock.
The most comfortable feeling are the stock service grips. Trigger finger isn't splayed an inch apart from the others, little finger has a place to perch. Decent vertical angle. But trying to control something the diameter of your thumb while shooting plus P or even magnums isn't a real workable solution either.

 

[RoyM52]

A few years ago I picked up a 351 PD and put these Nills grips on it. I like them.