CZ 75
My hands are kind of weird though- fingers aren't overly long but big palms.

My P226 Legion fits my hand the best. It's not my favorite looking pistol, but she is ergonomic!

PPQ and Steyr L9A1 but over time I’ve found some of the best shooting guns (for me) don’t always feel the best in my hand.

GP100. The original-pattern, (NOT Hogue!) factory grip fits each of my hands, perfectly, and the trigger is perfectly-shaped, and perfectly-positioned, for proper engagement with my trigger fingers, with no need for conscious thought. Not surprisingly, my best first-cold-shot potential, with no warm-up shots or dry-fire, is with the GP100.

Notably, the grip of the SP101 is a similarly superb fit, though, of course, the trigger reach is different. Perhaps some designer, who works, or worked, in the Eighties, for Ruger, has hands almost identical to mine?

For my left hand only, I recently discovered that the Glock Short Frame G30 pistols, and the Gen4 G30, with no adapters installed, were found to be truly excellent fits. I had noticed, in the past, that my hands were not identical, and the wear and tear of age has increased the differences. I had thought that my days of shooting compact Glocks were over, when the G19 became a torture device for my arthritic right hand, four years ago, prompting me to trade-away three G19 pistols, but these .45 Glocks fit my healthier left hand so well, and better than a G19 ever did, so, I bought one of each, G30s Short Frame, and Gen4 G30, as my left hand is becoming my better hand for compact auto-loaders. (I am fortunate in having been born left-handed, and right-armed, and functionally ambidextrous with most handguns. I chose to carry “primary” on the right side, in 1983.)

(My right hand can still tolerate 9mm Glocks with full-length “orthopedic” grips; the G17, G19x, and G45. The key seems to be that a grip frame must reach the “heel bone” of my right hand, to firmly stabilize the weapon, and to bridge over a particularly sensitive part of my hand, which the lower rear corner of a G19’s grip would jab, with each shot.)

P226 Mk25 w/ stock grips
P225 w/ stock grips
P220 Carry w/ stock grips (replaced the E2 grips)
P320 Large grip module on P320 XC

My P225 (not the A1), and my P229 with Hogue G10's a very close second...

Sig P245
Glock 19
S&W Model 59

1911s.

And the larger frame CZ and Tanfoglio.

Smith K and N frame revolvers, but that has more to do with the grip than anything.

I have a bunch of nice fitting guns but I gotta say, my P365 that I just put a Grayguns XL grip module on, feels real good. I'm going roll with my homemade X for a while.

Honorable mention to my Steyr M357-A1.

Strangely enough the PPQ M1, that I traded in on a G45, that ended up not being as good as I thought, so I traded that in, on something...

Right now S&W 686 followed by S&W 29 are my best fit, followed by CZ P07, then Sig P200 SAO.

The original P225.

I've been thinking this thread looked familiar. A different identity, but the same answer three years on. Still a G19/G23/G32 after all these years.

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Originally posted by soggy_spinout:
It's more about which gun grip my hand just adapts to the best, rather than the opposite of the gun cosseting my paws: that would be the frame that I've shot the longest and the most, now 28 31 years+ on: the fugly, blocky compact size Glock...

1911 with a high cut, and a slimmed front strap. Deep Checkering with no dehorn.

My P22R/e2 would be second.

CZ P07

CZ P-01/PCR

Browning Hi Power, it’s like an extension of my hand.

Any CZ.

Didn't read all 12 pages, so forgive me if it's been mentioned before.
But the handgun the simply 'feels' best to hold? For me that'd be the Browning Hi-Power. Has to be the most ergonomic pistol ever designed.



When my Dad passed he left me his 'almost new' circa 1995 Sig P220, an early model with the sharp hammer spur and very narrow trigger. It's a very close second to the BHP.

Now that's just 'feel in the hand'. Actually firing them is a bit different, as I prefer hot ammo travelling around Mach 4. With loads like that, the BHP bites me without a ring hammer and with hot .45 the P220 barks and kicks a bit. So the winner would be a P226 in 9mm for great feel, manageable recoil even with pretty warm loads and over all comfort.

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