Any Alfa Proj owner tried these grips?

[lavino]

http://blsolutions.ca/alfa-proj-grip-14-sport-stippled-pattern/

or something similar? It looks bulky but has a nice beaver tail. The default rubber grip is kinda ... a bit... MEH to me but I don't think any of them come with wooden grip by default. Would this be too big for 2 hands? Is this grip kinda more designed for just one hand? May be I should get the wooden version of the default grip like this one?

http://blsolutions.ca/alfa-proj-grip-9-stippled-pattern/

Anyone tried any of these above can give me some review on them?

I assume all these grips will fit on the 9mm version right?

 

[NoTarget]

I looked at getting wood grips for my Alfa but the rubber grips it comes with fit my hand well and I didn't see the need to change them.
If I did get wooden grips I was looking for grips to match the Ruger GP100 Match Champion in appearance.

 

[Suther]

A store near me used to have a 38spl with the wood grips(the second link). They were pretty nice. I could see myself getting a set if i ever get an alpha proj.

 

[sailor723]

I bought a set of the wooden Alfa grips without realizing they had a thumb rest and thus were right hand only. (note the photos only show the right side of the grips) I ended up exchanging them for the #11 that are the only ambi ones Blue Line has. The quality and fit was only so-so in my opinion....OK but nothing exceptional.

 

[Lead hammer]

My dad has the stippled wood ones. Nice and comfy, and they look good.

 

[BCRider]

Those grips are specifically intended to be used in one handed bullseye target shooting. You could shoot it with two hands but that isn't the point of them. And likely you'd find the grips are in the way of proper placement of your support hand.

The other set looks far better for two handed shooting and particularly for action style shooting if that is what you do. But as to how they fit it's between you and your own hands. What fits me or anyone else is only going to be perfect for you by accident.

What I found is that for me I need a slight extra bit of fill up around the area where the web of my hand goes over the upper back strap. And that matches up with any handgun I try. What I find is that if the backstrap of any grips, revolver or semi, do not have even contact along the entire back strap that I won't like how they feel when I shoot. So filling in that little bit for me was important.

I did get to try all the AP wood grip options and in the end none of them were any better than the stock plastic ones for fit. And most were not as good. But that's me and my larger size hands with fairly skinny fingers.

That #9 in the second URL just about lured me in. But since they are a wood version of the stock grip I thought I'd try the stock setup first. The need for that filler around the upper area made me not bother with the nice wood ones. Instead I need to get off my keester and make up some wood grips of my own in my shop that have that ideal, for me, back strap fill.

 

[VanMan]

I got the 2 handed grip version of the stippled grips. It's a very nice texture that provides a great grip. The finger grooves didn't quite fit my hands though so I ended up removing them.





There's not a lot of meat near the bottom of the grips, so you have to be careful removing material on the front lower part of the grip.

 

[lavino]

Exactly!!! That's what I found too with the finger grooves on the rubber grip it not matching my hand size. It might be harder to remove with the rubber grip. I am thinking about copying what you did with the wooden grip or might check out that other #11 thinner wooded grip available on the CanadaAmmo or Blueline site... have to get more moonclips anyway ^_^

Btw, does the Blueline's CC checkout work for you guys? I tried 2 cards last week both of them declined but I know my cards are fine (I just used one of them for lunch yesterday no prob). Do they prefer direct deposit and etc?

 

[Lead hammer]

Those are the wooden grips my dad has. However the grooves do not bother either of us.

 

[TriggerHappyGal]

I bought a slightly different model of wood grips for my Alfa and I love them. I've let a few people shoot this gun and the general consensus is that the grooves best fit a medium hand, not a large one.

 

[VanMan]

Exactly!!! That's what I found too with the finger grooves on the rubber grip it not matching my hand size. It might be harder to remove with the rubber grip. I am thinking about copying what you did with the wooden grip or might check out that other #11 thinner wooded grip available on the CanadaAmmo or Blueline site... have to get more moonclips anyway ^_^

Btw, does the Blueline's CC checkout work for you guys? I tried 2 cards last week both of them declined but I know my cards are fine (I just used one of them for lunch yesterday no prob). Do they prefer direct deposit and etc?

I tried the #11, found them too small. The little and ring fingers of my support hand were left hanging in the air lol. I got these from Rusty Woods a while back. Haven't tried to buy anything from Blueline (yet ....)

 

[BCRider]

The ones on the left look highly like the S&W "Magna" style grips. And yeah, those don't fit anyone with larger hands at all well. Hence the massive popularity of the fillers used along the front strap that blend into the trigger guards. I suppose SOMEONE must fit those but it sure ain't ME!

This is a picture of the padding I added to the stock grips that make the gun into a near perfect fit to my hands.

The material is a small scrap of the tapered cross section foam tape used for wrapping road bicycle handlebars. I've cut off one side of the taper so the foam is roughly 3mm thick around the top and tapers to around 1mm or a bit less along the bottom edge. This much filler really filled in the low contact pressure that the web of my hand had on the upper back strap. Without it the gun would rock back in my grip and slap the web of my hand. It actually made the area start to ache a little after a while. With the filler the recoil spread out more evenly and the gun became a pleasure to shoot.

If nothing else it was a lesson in just how small a lack of proper fitting can cause a gun to turn into a biter. I ran into much the same issue with a .44Magnum single action. The stock grips were too skinny around the "neck" and the gun would push back in my grip and cause my middle finger to slam into the rear of the trigger guard. A new set of same shaped but fatter/thicker grips to make the neck area more rounded totally cured this. All for about an added 2 to 2.5mm of wood worth of thickness around the top area of the grip scales.

When it comes to recoil and how the guns fit our hands the little stuff really does matter.