Picked up a colt grizzly about a week ago. I halfway expected there to be some sort of hidden flaw with the design since 90% of the content online I could find was about its bigger brother, the kodiak, despite that it did quite well on my last range trip. The thing is hefty with its full lug, unfluted cylinder, and steel construction but manages to feel well balanced in the hand and does a good job of taming recoil. The porting on the barrel is neat, and I observed it consistently shooting jets of flame to the sides when firing 357 on the hotter end of the spectrum, but I have no other revolvers to really compare it to so I can't say how effective it is in reducing muzzle flip. I briefly thought about replacing the front sight with a fiber optic but after seeing how much soot was on it due to the porting after my range trip perhaps the simple orange post that it comes with really is the best option. I found myself liking the rubber grips that came with it better than I originally thought I would, though I questions their effectiveness in reducing felt recoil due to the exposed backstrap always being in contact with your hand. Whatever the case, I have some HRV grips on the way, but that's more due to my irrational hatred of finger grooves and own my aesthetic preference than any flaw with the grip itself.

About the only negative thing I have to say about it is the fact that there's a slight bend in the ejector rod that's observable only when you spin the cylinder. I suppose I could send it back to colt for that but I just can't be bothered when it's a purely cosmetic defect that I have to go out of my way to even see in the first place, ejection was smooth as silk no matter what I fired.