I have long wanted a S&W Model 25-2, .45 ACP revolver. I had seen one many years ago that was carried by a police officer I worked with and I fell in love with it. But he wouldn’t sell his, and I never could find a really clean one at a price I wanted to pay.

I recently found a great example and bought it. Here it is, on the bottom.

You will notice that it had the small N-frame grips, as compared to the Model 29 revolver above it. Those small grips caused the trigger guard to bang against my middle finger and I didn’t like them at all.

I placed a Want To Buy ad in the EE and asked for some large, wooden, factory N-frame grips.

My friend Warhawk sent me an IM saying that he had a set of Hogue grips and attached a picture.

I asked him how much he wanted, and he kindly advised me that he has always enjoyed the Box O’ Truth posts and would like to give them to me.

How about that?

They arrived and I installed them on the pistol. They fill my hand much better than the small grips.

The Model 25-2 shoots .45 ACP rounds, but you must use “half-moon clips” to hold the cartridges.

The US Military issued these pistols with both two cartridge and 3 cartridge clips.

Here they are.

They work well, but are very stiff and difficult to get the empty rounds out of the clips.

I saw in a magazine a company that made some modern clips out of hard plastic and called and spoke with the owner.

The company is Beckham Product Design and the owner, Mr. Beckham was very helpful.

He sent me some samples to try and also included other clips for other pistols.

Here they are.

The web site gives all the information you might need.

www.beckhamdesign.com

The instructions for the clips stated that they would need to be trimmed with a razor knife to allow them to fit a Model 25-2, and indeed they did.

However, it was a quick job and now they work great.

And, it is much, much easier to get the cartridges into and out of these plastic clips than the old metal ones.

They hold 6 rounds of .45 ACP and allow very quick reloads.

Just eject the clip and empties...