Does anyone make a reproduction of the old "high horn" J-frame grips that were on the earlier Smith & Wesson Centennials and Bodyguards? The new 442 benefited greatly from a dose of LSA in its innards and some shooting. I'll dig out my snap caps (if I can find them) and exercise the action, but the ugly, skinny factory grips gotta go. The old high horn grips were designed to extend all the way up to the knuckle of the frame and spread the recoil where it whacks the base of your thumb. The originals are scarce and expensive, but I sure would like to corral a set of repros.

http://www.craigspegel.com/

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If I didn't have my Chrimson Trace grips I'd have either Spegal a Boot Grips or Eagle Secret a Service grips on my 442.

This is my solution...

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Sincerely,

Hobie

where it needs to be -- and absorbs/controls recoil, SO THAT THE GUN DROPS RIGHT BACK WITH SIGHTS pretty much aligned. One is set up with a RH Barami Hip Grip, and the shape of it places my trigger finger just right, so that it in the same place for each succeeding shot. It didn't hurt to fill several coffee cans with spent .38 Special brass, when I got my first one: regular 158gr loads. Buffalo Bore is what stokes them for social use now, but don't remember off hand which , except that it is 158gr.

When you get them going good and still have the eyeballs to make out the sights crisply, that practiced trigger squeeze to the final nudge, and then tripping it like single action, will produce surprising hits on plinkables. But the really useful skill is the smooth cycling of the action with rock solid grip alignment.

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Hobie, that one looks like it's s'posed to. The old standard magnas and a Tyler may be my eventual solution as well. That's what I have on most of my Smiffs anyway, and I like it.

After studying the matter some, and comparing the 442 with a M36, I believe the Barami grip I had on the 442 was the problem. My little bitty paw was hitched around just enough by the hook extending out to the right to place the frame knuckle right against my thumb joint instead of against the web as it should be. I put the factory grips back on for now, but I need to find another set of standard J-frame grips.

Anybody got a set they would part with?

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one of my 642s with a Barami Hipgrip and a Tyler Tgrip myself. The other already has the high horn Spegels.