Eagle Grips?

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marca

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I've been looking at Eagle Grips, Secret Service model for my Smith 642. Anyone have experience with these? How do they hold up? I've done some woodturning with ebony and have always found it very brittle.

Anyone have recommendations for other brands of wooden grips for J frames?

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Hello. I've not tried them in anything but checkered rosewood. They're compact and reasonably comfortable, at least to me.

Here's some of their secret service grips on a square-butt S&W Model 24.
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A pair on an S&W M19.
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Mr. Camp,
That 19 is a real beauty!:)
Do you shoot 357s in it or stick with +p 38s?
If 357s, how do the grips work?
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Not the best lit shot, but I just put these on my S&W M66 2 1/2". Took them off a PC 681 to see how they would work.
 

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They are excellent grips

If you like the backstrap left open, and you want wood, that's the ticket. They have more 'meat' near the top, which is opposite that of Uncle Mike's. I think they feel much more ergonomic.
 
Hello. For "house duty," it's loaded with either Remington or Federal full-house 125 gr .357 Magnum JHPs and I shoot that load in it. I don't notice any objectionable recoil in it. Most of it's practice work is done with a handload pushing a 158 gr CSWC about 1100 ft/sec.

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I have a set of Secret Service grips on my S&W Model 37 and they are great! They didn't fit very well when I recieved them, I complained, and Eagle made them fit as well as any grip I've owned. The nice thing about Secret Service grips are they add no weight to the gun unlike rubber (UGH!!!) grips do. Regards, Richard:)
 
I got a set of smooth Secret Service grip in rosewood on my Dick Special. It works well as far as recoil control goes but the quality (fit) of my grip was very poor. It took me about a week with sandpapers and dremil tool to fit the grip correctly. Personally, I like the Spegel Boot grip on my S&W "J" frame much better.
 
I've made grips out of both ebony and zircote (my S&W 60 currently on it made from the latter, pics were posted here some time back, but I forget which thread), both of these woods work well for grips as long as you adhere to rules concerning grain direction, if you have the grain going across the body of the grip rather than lengthwise, you may run into problems with severe recoil or dropping the gun on the pavement (not a good idea in any case). Still, pistol grips don't take the same kinds of stress that riflestocks do in most instances so I doubt you'll have any problems with ebony grips, I never have had any. One nice thing about wood grips in general is left uncheckered they don't grip clothing on a draw and they can be made thinner than most of the available rubber grips I've seen, they also look better, but I guess that's a matter of opinion.
 
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