So I got the Hogue wraparound grips today!
Perfect for what I wanted. They come in a nice package with instructions on how to mount. Included are two plastic pic caps to put over the stock grip position pins to fit the new Hogue grips. They fit like the other mono grips with a groove for the grip pins and it is a ONE PIECE grip, no slit on either front strap or back strap and just slides over the grip frame into place and locks securely when the grip pins find the holes. You have to use a plastic card to keep the leading (top) edge open as it forms around the rear of the frame top, but it went on smoothly and easily!
The grips are just a hair thicker than the stock rubber grips that the K6 comes with, but not too oversized. I have a medium hand so am able to get a almost three finger hold on the grips as they extend a little past the bottom of the frame.
Since the rubber is molded over a semi rigid plastic frame that contains the grip pin GROOVE, there really isn't that much material that you could remove to thin the grips down considerably although at the cheap cost, I might pick up another set to try and thin down.
I took the Kimber with the new grips down to the field to see how it feels with different loads.
Just shot 6 rounds of Armscor .357 and it felt like .38 +P. Stout, but comfortable, that I could shoot a whole range session with them. I shot some .38 reloads and it felt like .22. And then I tried a couple rounds of the hottest .357 I have, buffalo bore Outdoorsman. I didn't chronograph any loads today, but will in the future out of this Kimber, but with my LCR 1 7/8" barrel I was getting 1250 fps for 625 foot pounds ME with the 180 grain HC bullets. Now that is stout. Although it had some recoil, it was not painful at all and fairly controllable.
So these grips definitely pass the test for my K6 to function as my woods gun.