My old Pachmayr grips were much more rigid than this, preventing the screw from pulling through. This time, the grip felt so wobbly on the gun it felt like my revolver was going to fall out.
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I pressed the gun out to full extension again. So I backed the screw out unti it was just flush with the grip. I don’t like screws without a definitive stopping point, but maybe this was one I could live with. Oh well, it’s just cosmetic, and obviously tightening the screw isn’t going to bring them together, so I decided to back the screw out a bit.
The two edges aren’t even close to meeting each other. Next, I took a peek at the front strap area. What I felt was a screw, sticking a good quarter of inch out of the left grip panel. Finding no definitive stopping point, I eventually stopped and figured, “that’s probably enough.” I pressed the gun out to full extension, looking forward to feeling a new grip in my hand. Immediately I noticed it wasn’t a perfect fit, but assumed this was because the screw had not been tightened. Next, you insert the provided screw through from right-to-left and tighten it up. Installing it requires opening up the front-strap area and slipping it over the grip frame. But the checkering was sharp and everything else was in order, so I threw it on. I opened the package and immediately noticed the flashing was a little more pronounced that I would have preferred.
The Pachmayr Presentation is a simple, one-piece apparatus. With this memory in mind, and memories of a good set of Pachmayr revolver stocks I once owned, I recently purchased a Pachmayr Presentation grip to replace the Hogue finger-grooves on my 686. In my day this gun came with a Pachmayr wrap-around grip that covered the front strap with a thin layer of checkered rubber. 45, a custom 1911A1 issued to a handful of Marines. As most of you regulars probably know, I grew up on the Marine Corps’ MEU(SOC).