Welcoming the latest addition PT-917 Blue

[MissKitty]

Those are beautiful, I love the stainless *oohh shiny*.

[Elwood717]

​​Congratulations on your new firearm.

[andreew]

I won't say that my hands are huge, they tend to fit well with the rest of my stature....OK, yes I'm a big guy. If I read correct, you would like something less thick than the Taurus factory grips. That may be a tough find, the factory panels are already fairly thin as they are. Have you tried shooting my laying your index finger on the frame just under the slide in a pointing manner. The do the trigger pull with your middle finger. I know it may sound strange, but on some pistols it is a natural feel and with practice can become a favorite hold. Part of the line of thought behind this is that it helps in targer aquisition due to the fact that it is natural to point with your finger....after all you have been doing it since you were a year old.

It does seem strange but I'll give that one a go. Or, I'll just have to accept a slightly different grip compared to the grip I use on my PT809.

[jonrjen]

WOW!!! I just reread my post, I should have had more coffee before posting that mess of wording jumble. But, I hope it made some kind of sense to you. This hold works well on larger framed and some medium frame pistols. My hands are too large to do it on any compact sized frames, the index finger needs to lay under the slide as to not rub the slide action.
Let me know how it feels to you. You might also notice that you tend to raise the barrel upward when you pull the trigger until you get used to the new hold.

[andreew]

I understood you just fine, thanks. I'll give it a go.

So, when you guys shoot (say with your right hand), is the fleshy part of your hand connected to your thumb on the left of the grip, or on the right? It's more comfy when it's on the right for me. However, I feel that by pushing it over to the left, (i) the recoil is in line with my entire arm (ii) I tend to grip the pistol tighter. Both work, of course. I thought the second one might be superior and I was in the process of retraining myself to do that with my PT809 when I got the PT92.

[jonrjen]

If I understand your question correct, I would be more to the left

[andreew]

Ah... thanks.

[MOONDAWG]

Nice pix, thanks for sharing!

[Liberated]

The blue is nice too, especially with those grips, thanks for sharing Jon. Oh yeah which models grips interchange with the 58?