Taurus .38 Ultralite revolver Grip Question

[Defender]

A friend of mine's wife has the Taurus Ultralite .38 revolver, I think its the model 85UL. He bought a set of those pink grips to replace the black "ribber" grips that came on the gun. He didn't relaize that the grips were held on by that screw on the bottom of the grip, so he peeled away the old grip, lol, destroying it in the process. Thewn he brought it in and asked me my opinion. After i removed the screw and com-pletely removed the old grips, I noticed atht the new grips he had would not fit. The channel on the inside of the new ones is more curved than is the frame of the gun backstrap, and they attach differently than ones using that screw. I looked on the Taurus web site and didn't see anything that cleared the question for me as to what grips to get. He's gonna take both the grips and the gun back to the store where he bought the new grips form, and see what they can do, but I was wondering if anyone knows about the differences in Taurus grips. Their web site just lists replacement Taurus grips as either SMALL or Compact.

[SkunkSlayer]

barewoolf,

Don't know if your friend has replaced his grips yet, I had a 85 ultralite and replaced grips with Hogue #67000 for Taurus (small frame revolver. They fit great.

I still have factory Taurus 85 grips, your friend can have them free, if he needs them. I have no use for them. SS

[krunchnik]

Same here,I have installed Hogues on my 85SS,they fit great.The Taurus site calls these frames small.The compact fits their Tracker models.