Very very interesting article by Todd G. at Pistol training.
So finally I put it on the shot timer and it was slower: on average, 0.06 seconds slower. Six. Hundredths. Of a second. If you’d asked me, I would have told you it felt like half a second or more. Feelings lie.
Go read the whole thing. I know when I handled Jay’s S&W360PD with the VZ Grips it was wearing in this now-famous shot:
The grips felt hard, and while the G10 is grippy stuff, they’re “Smooth” G10 not the really aggressive stuff that feels like it was chopped off an Alligator’s tale. It was my guess that this gun was gonna wanna twist and buck in my hands, and that the hard grip was going to make the punishing .357 recoil out of a flyweight gun feel like a tack hammer to my thumb.
I was DEAD wrong. Its still a flyweight .357, you can erase physics, but the grips must allow for a firmer grip so there is LESS bucking, and therefore less hammering.
I’m strongly considering getting a pair of them for my S&W642 for those exact reasons!
Good Grips! T-Bolt bought a set for his J-Frame at the NRA Con, and he loves them.
I wish they would make some without the finger grooves. I’d buy those in a flash.