From everything I can read about, the issue with high round count classes and extra grippy handguns is a known issue.

If you are some how shooting that much in real life, with your handgun, you should damn well have gloves available. After all, you someone acquired a thousand rounds of handgun ammo and magazines to stuff it into.

For the short duration actual firefights, the rough grip shouldn’t impede, and damn well should help (assuming it’s used right, I have no idea if I’d make good use of a stippled handgun)

Tier-One Woodrasp?

Seems they had two large pistol classes that week, with a lot of high-end custom 1911′s (Les Baer, etc.). By day two, they’ve usually worn through the skin on the student’s hands, so day three is “De-checkering Day” at the smithy. They can remove $500 worth of checkering in just a few seconds, and they did 23 of them that morning.

They noted that most of the instructors had minimal checkering, frequently complemented by smooth grips. Maybe that only works in the high desert of Arizona, but I can tell you that there were very few fans of rough grip surfaces at the end of a 6 day class.

On the other hand, that might just be a class problem, and not a real-world problem. I’ll be interested in seeing how you like it a year from now.

FormerFlyer