stocks or grips???

[rubiranch]

I was told at one time that S&W refers to them as stocks so that's what I called them.

But now I'm going to call them grips instead.

The reason for my change you ask??

If Mr Roy Jinks refers to them as grips when he letters your gun them I will too.

So now I have switched every set of stocks on every one of my S&W over to grips and it was easier than I though it was going to be.

It took me a while to get a grip on this idea but I'm good with it now.

 

[s&wchad]

Call them whatever you like.
Even S&W waffled...

Flyer photo courtesy of SmithNut!

 

[Art Doc]

MROT:

Wood=stocks.

Any other material=grips.

I don't really care what people call them as long as they don't say pencil barrel.

Or use apostrophes in making words plural. It's stocks, not stock's.

 

[gwpercle]

Herret's always called em stocks , a lot of other folks called em grips , Kim Ahrend calls his grips . I think either term is just fine... I know what you mean when you say stocks or grips for hanguns and both seem appropriate .

Sure beats calling them "handles".
Gary

 

[Old Corp]

I just wanna see more people correctly spell Pachmayr and Hogue.

- Seems to be semi-impossible evidently....

 

[rubiranch]

Pachmayr was a tough one for me. LOL

 

[Absalom]

...

Sure beats calling them "handles".

According to S&W, a revolver only has one handle, to which the stocks or grips are attached

 

[soFlaNative]

I understand both to be interchangeable but refer to a long gun as having stocks and a handgun to have grips.
It's been a while but I've seen Lee Jarrett's website descriptions of his revolvers for sale as Noconnee (?) Trader as having grips.
As this place is his I see no reason to change my thinking but really don't care either way.

 

[OFT II]

I believe it has something to do with the phase of the moon at that particular time.

 

[22hipower]

All of my S&Ws have stocks, my Colts have grips. Except when I'm searching for more on eBay and other sites where who knows what the sellers may be calling them. Hopefully they'll be factory as new takeoffs from the '50s/'60s in Pachmayr/Hogue boxes and called "gun handles" by the seller.

Jeff
SWCA #1457

 

[S&WshooterFIN]

Rifle have stock, handgun have grips

 

[rubiranch]

Rifle have stock, handgun have grips

That makes PERFECT sense to me.

 

[Absalom]

All of my S&Ws have stocks, my Colts have grips.

Just like Roy’s S&W revolvers always letter as having grips, Colt letters always list stocks

 

[rubiranch]

Just like Roy’s S&W revolvers always letter as having grips, Colt letters always list stocks

They do that to intentionally screw with us.

 

[CH4]

Handles?
I don’t care what what they’re called as long as they fit correctly.

 

[Doc44]

In the 1950s and 60s, All Model Circulars used stocks in their descriptions, as do S&W shipping invoices. Perhaps this has changed over time, but I like to stay with the original terminology. To each his own.

Bill

 

[crazyphil]

You grip your stocks. You don't stock your grips.

 

[lrrifleman]

Grips, stocks, anything but SHOES!

 

[Gene L]

MROT:

Wood=stocks.

Any other material=grips.

I don't really care what people call them as long as they don't say pencil barrel.

Or use apostrophes in making words plural. It's stocks, not stock's.

Call them whatever. Does it matter? S&W might call them stocks, but they're grips to me.

As for apostrophes to make plurals, I see this often. I think it's from school where teachers "teach for the test" instead of teaching the usage of grammar. I used to get paid to read standardized tests...they have some strange rules. It's possible that a student gets penalized for not using the apostrophe, but doesn't when he blindly adds apostrophes before a noun ending in S.

My pet peeve is there, their, they're used interchangeably.

 

[ImprovedModel56Fan]

I believe it has something to do with the phase of the moon at that particular time.

Actually, at that particular time of the month. Further, deponent sayeth not. Or, as others would say, sayeth naught.