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And here is Keith's web site! Keith Brown Grips
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I used to own a S&W with a pair of original Roger grips. I don't remember them being as beautiful as those.
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This is the best target I've shot at 25 paces in white a while. Truck hood/ butterfly case rest, 2 3/8" centers. I'm sure it's the grips! (1954 K-38, Keith Brown grips.)
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Those are some very classy grips!!!
The courageous may not live forever, but the timid do not live at all.
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Steve, did you use those "Super Match" wadcutters, or some different load?
Ain't a mid-50s K-anything just the nuts? (LAPD had a special violent crimes unit (became SWAT later) in those days that were issued K-38s. I guess in these "supersized" days we're not used to thinking of a .38 Special as a "Special Weapon" any more....).
Good shootin' by the way!
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Group shot with Hornaday wadcutters, probably 20(?) year old. Remember buying that vintage Win and Rem Match wadcutters and wouldn't pay more the $5 a box. The vintage Hornaday was a good gunshow deal at $12 a month or so ago. Bought ten boxes, shoulda-bought-em-all.
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Nice Smith love your new Ropers. I spent a couple hours this AM getting to know my 19, shooting some wadcutters. Rest shooting at 20 yards, offhand on the silhouette at 50-feet. Practice, Practice, and more Practice needed.
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Not bad Michael! The Target grips should only feel a bit small in your hand. I remember myself as being a fairly competant pistol shot at one time, at least I think I was!?!? Maybe?? The custom Magna grips finished. Figured on leaving them smooth and shiny, might checker later.
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Thanks Steve, The target grips seem about right compared to anything else I've tried. It would be tempting to have a set made once I decide on what revolver I'll stick with.
In 1967-68 I wore out a brand new Colt Officer's Model Match 38-Special shooting nothing but 148 gr wadcutters. I thought I was OK but today with glasses and shakes ;-) not a cake walk anymore.
I've also never shot these B-29 NRA silhouette targets before the ten-ring is about the size of the cylinder. That's it...I need a bigger target.
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In 1967-68 I wore out a brand new Colt Officer's Model Match 38-Special shooting nothing but 148 gr wadcutters. I thought I was OK but today with glasses and shakes ;-) not a cake walk anymore.
I've also never shot these B-29 NRA silhouette targets before the ten-ring is about the size of the cylinder. That's it...I need a bigger target. Michael, that's exactly (bigger target, grin) what I said back in '66 when I was shooting at Trinidad on the pistol team. Then our coach, a fellow gunsmithing student named Harold Scherff retired from the USAF, made me shoot on the 50-foot International target, where the 10-ring is about the diameter of a 22LR bullet. To put it bluntly, it showed me how much I could improve by setting higher standards instead of settling. It doesn't mean very much to me any more but back then I prided myself on my pistol-shooting ability, and I was very gratified to find that practicing on the International target increased my average slow-fire scores from 90 to 93. BTW a 93 on the Standard American target is almost exactly equivalent to an 83 on the International target. Altogether a very humbling experience, to shoot a mere 83! Made me tighten up quite a bit, to say the least. Regards, Joe
You can lead a man to logic but you can't make him think. NRA Life since 1976. God bless America!
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