>>I'm on the opposite end - small hands...actually square palm, short fingers - revolvers are right out for me, unless I choke up on 'em so far that I'm actually firing at a point 6 inches above where I'm aiming at 50 feet. I have a problem with the 'double-stacked' 9mm. Amazingly enough, I don't have a huge problem with the Desert Eagle .50 tho.
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>But don't Sig, Beretta, Browing and Glock all make small autos? I've seen a lot of sweet handguns that I though would be very cool if I had small hands.
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> Even something that looks big - like the Desert Eagle, Python, 1911 etc - if i seat them properly in my palm my trigger pull would be between my first two finger joints. Very awkward. Colt third model Dragoon feels almost right.
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> I modified some Pachmyrs with some Fastcap My Grip (great stuff) to build them out toward the back and that works pretty well for target shooting, which is all I do anymore, but it looks a little weird and if I were carrying it would probably be awkward.
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>My favorites are the 1911, the Python and the Browning Buckmark ( this is my 5th one - I think they are a work of art. Remington Mark III pretty close. ) Building the custom grips took a while to master but it was worth it.
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>But what surprised me was when I was shopping around for somebody else's solution I was stunned that most people didn't even know what I was complaining about (except for the Hammerli freestyle crowd :-)

Yeah, they do - I'm just not fond enough of 9mm to bother looking at them. My .45 is an old 1911A Combat and the .40 is an IAI Skipper (http://www.gunauction.com/buy/10489896/pistols-for-sale/stainless-irwindale-arms-iai-skipper-compact-1911-.40-smith-and-wesson-semi-auto-pistol). Had a .280 for a bit and had the same problem with it that you have - it was way too small - so I sold it to a friend. My husband (who stand 6'3" and is built on the Russian combat chassis) has the same issue with my .45 (grin).

Had a friend in Houston who was a dealer (30 years ago) and through him I've shot everything from a sawed off to the Walther PPK (oh man it was SWEET!) and I've found I really like my two.