Six inch 45LC/45ACP convertible. Plain Jane even came with the plastic grips and that's the only complaint, not sure they could have come up with a worse design. I run two cylinders of 230 FMJ ACP through it and already knew it was going to be a problem, those sharp corners were already digging in. Ran two cylinders of Corbon 45 LC 300 gr running about 1300 fps, (Load is listed as 1,126 ft/lbs) those grips were down right painful! Found a pair of old factory grips and we're good to go, sorry Ruger but those grips went in the trash!

One of mine came with those devilish grips. Fortunately Ruger has an online store with many grip options. Mine also went to the trash.

I have 2 blackhawks that I have placed a Hogue 83000 rubber grip on. They are excellent! Bigger, rubber and soft. They fit very well and they only cost me about $20 on Amazon.

I have the hogue grips on a couple pistols and they are nice but are a bit sticky not in a chemical way but shirts, hair and skin are pulled by them easily if that makes sense. That being said they are comfortable to shoot with. Personally on a single action a nice pair of wood grips are tough to beat imo.

I prefer the stock Rosewood grips, I like the pistol to roll on recoil, rubber or checkering transfers too much into the wrists for me.

Congrat's on a fine revolver. Shot a friend's Vaquero chambered in 45LC. Sweet sweet round.

http://shopruger.com/Single-Action-Revolvers/products/5352/

This is where I get mine from. There are many aftermarket grips available but I like the Ruger emblem.

Ajax use to make some really nice aftermarket grips for the Ruger single actions with and without the Ruger logo medallion. Rumor has it they had to quit the Ruger medallion models at Rugers request. Not sure how true that is but that's what I was told at the gun show years ago. Its a shame because that's the ones I always bought.