I hate the look of Hogues, and I think the cobblestone finish is pretty worthless in terms of grippiness. But no matter what I try, I come back to the rubber finger groove grips on my 1911.
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With about half an hour of stippling, they look and feel a whole lot better IMHO. Since I stippled those grips, I have come to find out that finer-grain stippling is much more "grippy". I now do that on all of my Hogue grips.
