New Grips for the Smith & Wesson No. 3

Am Shooting Journal ^ | 6/5/20 | M Nesbitt

[w1n1]

But the question is, how does the replica S&W New Model shoot with Triple K's replacements?
In my story last issue about the new Smith & Wesson No. 3, I was able to tell you why I like that Uberti-made S&W-style gun. There are several reasons and I don’t think I missed any of them. However, there was one little thing that I wanted to change and that was mainly for personal reasons.
I favored some original-looking grips, such as what Smith & Wesson used to have when they were making the New Model No. 3 revolvers, so I ordered some from Triple K Manufacturing. Triple K makes replacement grips for several older pistols and revolvers, and they also make replacement buttplates, so I might call on them again.
Just putting new grips on a revolver is almost as good as getting a new gun. Actually, this was an almost new gun because I really hadn’t gotten it too long ago. The wooden grips that Uberti had put on the gun were very serviceable, certainly, but I wanted something just a little more authentic in appearance and the vintage-style grips from Triple K quickly filled the bill. Those authentic grips were just what I was looking for.

Triple K's grips are made in the shape and style of the old hard rubber grips that Smith & Wesson used to put on their New Model No. 3 revolvers in the late 1870s and later. S&W actually had two colors for these rubber grips.
Black was probably the most common, but they also had mottled red rubber grips. I think the red grips (and forearms) were most often used on the unusual .320 revolving rifles, making them look rather outstanding. Triple K has even more color options, far too many to list here, but they do include both a red and a deep-red color, plus a burnt-orange "flavor." The black grips are priced at $37.50 and selecting an optional color raises the price by $17.50.
These grips made by Triple K are actually made for the original S&W guns, not the reproductions or copies of those guns that are being made today.
And in their lineup of S&W grips, they also have grips for the old top-break .44 double-action models, which had a slightly smaller grip when compared to the single-actions. If you plan to place an order for grips to go on the Uberti New Model No. 3, be sure to look for "SA" instead of "DA" in the description. The grips I bought were Triple K’s part No. 3917G. Read the rest of Smith and Wesson Model 3.

[magyars4]

Love them Schofields!

[yarddog]

There is a museum in Claremore, OK which has guns that I have never seen otherwise. A great museum.

I bet they have several S&W model 3s.