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For Demanding Targeteers...(or other desperate men).
Custom Contender grips and forends...for G2 and original frames...inventoried and made to order...exotic woods milled to excellence...sized and shaped for your hand...first grade American
The corporate wisdom of "one size fits all" so common in factory and alternative stocks for both early model and G2 Contenders has inadvertently undermined marksmanship for decades by creating shooter discomfort, distraction, and fatigue, leading to the inevitable conclusion of flinching or at least shot pulling and wandering so evident at the target after a session of mental failure (you remember that day at the range don't you?). This corporate neccessity festered further by several simply awful designs, especially in early Contenders, sacrificing the wisdom of function for the razzledazzle of the marketing department, a tragedy upon which many thousands of deficient grips were manufactured.
Incidentally, the G2 grip enjoys a much more intelligent solution than anything ever factory designed for the original frame. But the offering of increasingly more powerful chamberings and consequential recoil has inspired the factory to locate the G2 grip way too far back and away from the trigger, as though the middle finger must be safely distanced from the trigger guard rear surface under great recoil; worse yet, the angle is swept way back, the bottom end of the grip way too far to the rear, directing the hand forward under recoil. This compromise inadvertently sacrifices static comfort, and contributes almost nothing to recoil control. Mere distance from middle finger to trigger guard only begins to manage recoil (there are several other contributing factors). I can think of no better way to restrict the otherwise superb Contender from reaching its terminal performance at the chosen target. A truly relaxed, comfortable hand both before and during recoil complements a relaxed mind to hold more steadily, and resist flinching.
How serious are you about your offhand marksmanship? Or the elegance and uniqueness of your Contender? Can a pistol have "identity"? I answer that a Contender demonstrates character at every level. There are few man-made things more personal than a great pistol. The bond a marksman feels for it can only be understood by other marksmen. Simply stated, I am a shooter, and I regard that bond very, very seriously. My passion is to offer "the perfect grip", a truly personal fit. That I fit you over the phone or by mail only sweetens the challenge. I insist the stocks be meticulously formed from proper wood (some exotic, some rare, some expensive, some just well suited) glowing with Old World quality and charm through the soft warmth of hand rubbed oil. Ideally, the stocks should be an extension of the owners hands, the likeness of a living thing, that unique place where pistol and shooter meet in the physical realm...in an impersonal, fast food world where most everything is billed as extreme, but special things are mostly hidden.
While I love wood for its own sake and enjoy working it to precision and art, I must tell you I am fueled by the profound and immutable truth that the next shot, the one right now, is the only shot in the world, the only one that counts or should. My efforts are predicated from this passion, to fit pistol grip to hand...to make that shot.
A properly stocked Thompson Contender is the mechanical-aesthetic predicate of a single solitary shot which a man might fire against intimidating odds over unlikely distance with undefined confidence, a quiet soul, and with very great humility.
Anachronistically...Reg Jones...
stock maker...HIS HANDS grips
Ask me about Jesus if you wish.
