I tend to be a nerd at anything I really enjoy. It is easy to go deep down a rabbit hole when I am digging something. There is a reason I have 400+ books on hand-to-hand fighting and 300+ books on shooting.
Recently, after some deep conversations with Darryl Bolke, Chuck Haggard, Greg Ellifritz, and a long and very interesting phone chat with Wayne Dobbs, I have been a bit obsessed with revolvers. I always have had a special place in my heart for them, but it now that I am forcing myself to make time to get some live shooting in, that obsession has been more in the forefront. I went back through some of the books I have that go back to when revolvers were the only real choice and can pick up things I overlooked before.
One of those things was some of the gear used back in the day. In one of the books the author talks very highly about Mershon No. 10 grips. While I had read the same info before, this time it resonated more with me (most likely because of the live fire I have been putting in with my own wheelguns) and on a lark I went online to see if there were any available, and amazingly enough - considering that these grips have not been made in over 45 years, I found a good set on Ebay for $17!
Mine own general preference in grips tends to run towards smaller ones (the ones I liked the best have been the original narrow S&W stocks with a Tyler T grip) so buying the Mershons were more in the way of historical research and nerdiness rather than for my own EDC, but that changed after I got them. These things frickin' rock. I have literally never felt so comfortable but functional in any grip/stock anywhere, and that includes semi autos. They are "plastic" but with almost a slight rubbery "squishiness" that gives me the feeling of locking in the gun in a way I have never felt. They are still new to me so I have not done much shooting with them yet, but should be able to get in a good session later this week. So while this is a somewhat tentative conclusion, I am really looking forward to putting them through their paces.
They are not particularly pretty, but I am caring about the efficacy and looks be damned.