I have finally gotten around to kicking my Mountain Gun project forward. There's a (hopefully) nice leather holster arriving in the future, and of course the gun needs a nicer set of wood stocks to match it. A lot of revolver grip places either don't make the kinds of stocks I want (no finger grooves for me, please - they never fit my hands), or don't ship them internationally, or the purchase process is otherwise... awkward. But one place I can get stocks from is Hogue. There is just one final question remaining;
Should the stocks be checkered, or not?
- The non-checkered stocks are cheaper. This is a factor.
- The non-checkered stocks are available to ship immediately. This is veeerrry tempting...!
- On the other hand, we're talking about a lightish weight N-frame chambered in.45 Colt. While I don't have aspirations to launch any insane Ruger only loads through this particular firearm, even plain standard pressure ammunition does create a slight amount of recoil. And Jerry Miculek I ain't. Would slick stocks be too slippery?
- But then again, the slick ones would ship right away and not after a month long wait...