When I went through the academy in `65, another cadet also had a Python. When we compared guns, both bought NIB just prior to the academy, we both noticed that the grips felt "different" although they looked the same. His grips felt better to me and mine felt better to him because we had different size hands. We swapped grips and both of us shot better after the swap. Both sets of grips fitted both guns perfectly, both pair looked identical, but they felt "different". Other officers/cadets also felt the difference, as did the chief instructer. We never did figure out the difference but we both scored in the top of the class.
Our final scores "annoyed" the chief instructer because he, and most of the department, favored Smiths.
John
[This message has been edited by JCM298A (edited 06-16-2005).]