Apart from the aesthetics is there any advantage with one over the other in areas such as recoil or ease of handling?
Based purely on the look, I prefer straight grips and that includes bolt guns.
Grip Styles
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Bruce Scott
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Grip Styles
Which do you prefer - straight or pistol grip?
Apart from the aesthetics is there any advantage with one over the other in areas such as recoil or ease of handling?
Based purely on the look, I prefer straight grips and that includes bolt guns.
Apart from the aesthetics is there any advantage with one over the other in areas such as recoil or ease of handling?
Based purely on the look, I prefer straight grips and that includes bolt guns.
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J Miller
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Re: Grip Styles
As strange as it may seem here is my preferences:
Bolt action rifle, pump shot gun, sxs shotgun, single shots: pistol grip.
Lever action rifles: straight grip.
Silly isn't? I think the pistol grips give a better grip on the first group, but hinder and add an awkwardness to the lever guns.
Joe
Bolt action rifle, pump shot gun, sxs shotgun, single shots: pistol grip.
Lever action rifles: straight grip.
Silly isn't? I think the pistol grips give a better grip on the first group, but hinder and add an awkwardness to the lever guns.
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I'm with Joe on this one although I do have a SxS 16 ga. and like the straight grip just fine.
Re: Grip Styles
No personal preference since I've got levers with both. For looks I like the straight grip.
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Re: Grip Styles
I like the svelte look and some bolt guns have a pistol grip that is way too bulky for me. But, it really is whole effect, not just the pistol grip. That said, I don't own a levergun with a pistol grip.
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Re: Grip Styles
I think I'm with Joe also... though IIRC the 99 I used as a kid had a pistol grip, and I really liked it...
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kimwcook
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Re: Grip Styles
It depends on the piece. It has to look right and feel right. I have both, in shotguns and levers.
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Re: Grip Styles
Pistol grips here.
My large hands just prefer the feel.
I ALWAYS add larger grips to my handguns too
My large hands just prefer the feel.
I ALWAYS add larger grips to my handguns too
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44magHunter
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Re: Grip Styles
I prefer pistol grips on most guns. Some levers have exceptions of course.....
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Re: Grip Styles
I prefer straight grips on levers, most bolt gun pistol grips are OK, but I did straight grip a couple bolt guns and liked them a lot. Took the comb back a little to open up the wrist. A straight gripped bolt gun carried nicely across the front of a saddle.
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Re: Grip Styles
straight grip but I have both and I suffer the pistol grips. 
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Ysabel Kid
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Re: Grip Styles
Same here. Straight grips cock my wrist more than I like. I think Marlin makes a good pistol grip, followed closely by Winchesters's M71. My Trappers all have straight grips, but I hope to make up a Trapper some day with a pistol grip. Anyway, that's my preference.bsaride wrote:Pistol grips here. My large hands just prefer the feel.
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Re: Grip Styles
NO PREFERENCE! I LOVE THEM ALL!
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Bullard4075
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Re: Grip Styles
Pistol grips , that why although I have one I have never warmed to the Win 94.
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Re: Grip Styles
for looks I like the straight stock, but for shooting I like a pistol grip...of course I love shooting my Winchester 94 and Henry H001, so maybe I'm just confused
Re: Grip Styles
Straight.
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NonPCnraRN
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Re: Grip Styles
I always prefered straight grips on a levergun. That said I always thought that a tang sight would interfere with the way I grasp a straight gripped stock when shooting... with my thumb over the top. This subject made me think that a tang sight might work better with a pistol gripped stock. With my fingers wrapped around the pistol grip, my thumb could lay along side the sight base instead of instinctively trying to lay my thumb across the top of the grip.