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I'm thinking of replacing the rubber grips on my Ruger Redhawk with oversized wood grips. Hogue makes them with finger grooves or a smooth style. Anyone had any experience with Hogue grips? I'm leaning towards the smoother style.

Not a Redhawk, but I love these Hogue grips on my Model 629. I went smooth verses checkered - looks, feels and handles great.

Here's a Hogue on my 629. I bought one for a Ruger SBH but I didn't care for its fit, and ended up putting a Pachmeyer Presentation on it.

I have had Hogue's with finger grips, Aaron Hogue was a shooting friend of mine in college, and own zero now. Clearly a personal choice but I have no use for finger groove grips on a handgun.

Finger grips are not a requirement on Hogue's. They make nice grips in many configurations.

The problem with the Redhawk is that Bill Ruger designed the gun around the stock grips. Where a S&W has a gap which can be filled with either their target grip or a Tyler T-Grip when using a Magna grip the Ruger fits the hand perfectly with the stock grip. You add any material to the frontstrap and it changes the grip angles and height.

Had a .41 Redhawk 5.5" and a 7.5" .44 with rings. Used the 7.5 with a set of Pachmayer Presentations which was ok for SA shooting. I tried every grip on the market on the .41 and ended up selling it as nothing felt "right" except the stock grips...and the grips went with it.

I have both fingergroove and smooth grips on my guns and have been leaning toward the non-finger groove lately...

Bob

Since you say rubber I'm guessing you have the 4" barreled gun?

My favorite grip for a Redhawk is the factory wood grip. I don't like big bulky grips on a handgun.

Tom