Shooting my 9mm PCC SBR this weekend in two different environments (bench for zeroing and steel challenge match) in two days actually had me thinking about the grip angle on that gun.
My general takeaway is that the more upright, and the shorter the stock, the more vertical of a grip you want. The more prone and the longer the stock, the closer to horizontal you want. I suppose there’s some ratio of torso position to grip angle you could come up with…
When it comes to rifles, and not PCCs, most of us are going to be intending one gun to serve for everything from prone shooting to upright “contact distance” shooting and so we have to make compromises.
There is no silver bullet here. You just have to try a few.
Not gonna lie, I miss the early 2000s when there was like 2-3 grips to choose from and that was it (and stocks, and optics, and forends, and…). We are awash in choices today and it leads to a lot of analysis paralysis. One good reason to take a class is to get your hands on other people’s grips (literally), it I would caution that you’ll want to try the grip in both prone and fully-upright before replacing whatever you have.