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Thread: Springfield V-10 "knurling" on back strap and front strap

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    Springfield V-10 "knurling" on back strap and front strap

    Hi - do the Springfield V-10s, stainless models, come from the factory with knurling (looks like stippling on a polymer gun) on the front strap and backstrap? I've been looking to purchase a V-10 and I'm seeing this knurling on a few I've looked at - did they come like that from the factory? THANKS!
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    Some of them had checkering on the frontstrap, and a checkered mainspring housing (on the rear). Is this what you're referring to?
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    I wouldn't call it checkering, like on a wood rifle stock - it looks more like the stippling on a polymer gun . . .

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    What I think of as "knurling" is a machined process that would never be confused with stippling. Do you have a photo of what you're trying to describe?
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    You can see it at this GB link, in pictures 12 of 31 and 13 of 21 -https://www.gunbroker.com/item/741131164
    That is not knurling -- that is stippling.


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    That doesn't look factory to me.
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    Stippling.
    Not factory.

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    Yeah, that's what I thought - IMHO, it looks terrible - not for me. Thanks for the insights guys !!!

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    Matter of taste. What is visible out from under the ugly finger groove wraparound and on the MSH and frame edges is quite well done. As stippling goes. For a good grip, I would prefer it to the razor sharp checkering that looks so precise.

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    A matter of taste indeed. I think I like those finger-groove grips more than the treatment.
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