Pietta 1858 C&B - Painful to shoot

[Bad Karma]

If your unmentionable doesn't have a short grip, then there's no point in putting your pinky under it. The whole point in putting the pinky below the bottom of the Remington grip is to prevent an excessively high hold that is contrary to the way it was designed to be held.

I seriously doubt the 1858 grip was designed to be held pinky under. For the most part I suspect it wasn’t designed with any aim except to imitate the Colt grip which came before it. They just got it slightly wrong. Notice Remington ran far and fast from that design to the much improved versions of the 1875 and 1890 which allow plenty of room for the middle finger and don’t require pinky under grips. If anything they overcompensated with the 1890 grip which has an awful lot of real estate twixt the grip and the trigger guard… it works though.

 

[TrapperDude]

I seriously doubt the 1858 grip was designed to be held pinky under. For the most part I suspect it wasn’t designed with any aim except to imitate the Colt grip which came before it. They just got it slightly wrong. Notice Remington ran far and fast from that design to the much improved versions of the 1875 and 1890 which allow plenty of room for the middle finger and don’t require pinky under grips. If anything they overcompensated with the 1890 grip which has an awful lot of real estate twixt the grip and the trigger guard… it works though.

I've heard competing theories about whether it was designed that way intentionally or not, but the bottom line is that it does require the pinky to go under the grip, or one's hand will end up being too high on it. Accident or intention on Remington's part doesn't change much about the end result.

 

[SPQR70AD]

I am prett sure I think talyor arms has a version of the 1858 that has a bigger frame with more room from the trigger guard to the grip