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Originally posted by Il Cattivo:
I know you were asking about the Carry, but it may have been part of a broader set of changes to the 220ST Elite. The original beavertails on standard-sized ST Elites were, IIRC, larger than later beavertails. The main difference in my mind, though, was that the earlier beavertails actually kept the shooter's hand a bit low on the grip frame. I know Bruce Gray offered a service early on where he would make the beavertail a bit smaller and raise the bottom of it a bit so that the web of the shooter's hand could get a little bit higher on the grip. Since he's long worked pretty closely with the factory, it wasn't a surprise to eventually see newer production beavertails that resembled the older beavertails that he had modified.