Bed liner spray for pistol?

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So I saw a couple of posts about people finishing there old beaters and duck guns with spray in bed liner out of a can. It got me thinking would this work on a pistol? I think if you coated it, it would make holstering and drawing the weapon to hard. I love my pt140 but wish I could put a little different grip on it. I know they have the houge hand alls but I don't care for the way they look.
 
It's been used to refinish grips on plastic guns after grip reductions. Coating the whole gun probably isn't a good idea, but just the grip shouldn't cause any problems.
 
Thought about using to coat the freefloat tube on an AR, but the potential weight had me concerned.
 
What is the deal on being a Senior Member and just a Member?? It must have to do with age!! I know this is not related to the topic but I had no comment on that.
 
You could also look into this grip tape stuff Click here
Definitely don't coat the whole thing, I have bedliner in my truck and it would definitely make it bite into the holster (not mention make the gun thicker, or not fit at all in a kydex holster).
I have a Hand-All on my glock 26 and it's tacky (meaning very grippy...well to some people it probably looks tacky too) but i'm not sold on it, I'll probably remove it but for $6 it was worth a try. It feels noticably thicker in the grip.
 
Sorry I didn't mean the I wanted to coat the whole thing just the grip. It just got me thinking that if you coated the whole thing it would stick in the holster. I think even just doing the grip would leave me with the same problem as doing a hand all, the collors of the frame and grip just wont match. On an old beater shotgun for going out in the marsh it seems like pretty good protection though.
 
It needed something. The plastic grips on my Hi-Point get really slick when they get wet or sweaty. It is truly a truck gun. Neither it, nor I, have any illusions of fanciness.
 
I'm just a poor boy, no body loves me :neener: (bohemian Rahpsody, "Queen")

No seriously though I don't even have the money to even think about doing stuff like that to my firearm. Sad as it is to say I am all about the flashiness of my GUN :what: so hockey grip tape is a NO!!! for me. I will stick to saving up me money and buy a hogue grips.

As for what you should do... you should do as you like, it is your firearm and your personality that you will be, hopefully, satisfying. I only say it bluntly like this because of the fact that, no matter how much info any of us give you, you will do as you like and or feel when the time comes. GRANTED what we say may give you some keen ideas and that's great I hope that someone here and or I gives you good/great advice. Just remember one thing, like I do, It is you and you alone that you should be satisfying when you do anything to your weapon. Unless it's killing terrorist, then you should do what ever makes America happy. LoL!!!:cool:
 
Nothing said so far tops my Solid Mink Shot Gun. It was an old bolt-action goose gun with a shattered stock that I found in a supermarket parking lot Most of the moving parts were missing, but I decided to make a wall-hanger out of it.

Even after a careful glue job the stock looked like heck, so i took part of a ratty mink coat and glued/tacked/stapled it over the whole stock. Then I wire-brushed the rusty barrel and action, cut a trigger from masonite, a bolt from a broomstick, painted these parts gold, and had the gaudiest wall-hanger in the known universe!
Bed Liner? Really!!
 
theotherwaldo, pics should be coming along any second, right? :D

As for bed-liner on the grips of a polymer-frame. Never would of thought of it, would at least fix the issue of some houge grips riding up and down the gun though...
 
Nothing said so far tops my Solid Mink Shot Gun. It was an old bolt-action goose gun with a shattered stock that I found in a supermarket parking lot Most of the moving parts were missing, but I decided to make a wall-hanger out of it.

Even after a careful glue job the stock looked like heck, so i took part of a ratty mink coat and glued/tacked/stapled it over the whole stock. Then I wire-brushed the rusty barrel and action, cut a trigger from masonite, a bolt from a broomstick, painted these parts gold, and had the gaudiest wall-hanger in the known universe!
Bed Liner? Really!!
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Dude seriously we need to see picks of this god-foresake abomination of man that you have created.

+10 for you having the guts to actually tell us about it you silly redneck boy. LoL :neener: you really don't want to know how I'd massacre that weapon. BTW no offense I am just being silly in the name calling thing.
 
Just when you think you've seen it all.
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Then you realize you haven't seen the few dozen threads on THR that discuss bedliner on guns, especially pistol grips and rifle stocks.

You could also look into this grip tape stuff Click here
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For those of you considering using grip tape, don't buy the kits from Brownell's that Double Tap Drew noted unless you want to pay big bucks for their exact cut patterns. For those prices, you can many many feet of 3Ms 1" wide grip tape and cut it yourself, or few feet of the 2" wide variety. You can add grip to several guns in addition to the stepside on your pickup truck for the price of one of the Brownell's kits.
 
Pay no attention to these guys poo-pooing the bedliner. Would I use it on a $4,000 1911? No. Would I use it on a gun that I intend to use, and use hard? Heck yeah. I've never tried it, but if it works, it's hard to argue with results.
 
The Solid Mink Shotgun is a relic of my youth, and like my youth, is gone forever.

It is unusual in that I took it to school. It was used as a prop in "Little Mary Sunshine", a play that's even worse than its name!

Anyway, that wall-hanger really looked cool under black-lights!
 
Safe Queen

""Would I use it on a $4,000 1911?""
As my ol' folks used to say, "Some have more dollars than sense."
What use is a $4,000 1911 Safe Queen, that you wouldn't even put bullets into?? Ennywayz, check out some of the neat stickies available for cell-phones. Even in camo, and very cheap. Lots of fellas here in the trailer park use the stuff. Also, P.S. the Hogue Grips people are very nice to deal with. I took my G-21 out of its holster, and it didn't feel right. Seems that the Hogue Slip-on had split up the middle and come off. So I called Hogue and told them what happened, and said I didn't know how old it was, "...over two years..." They said their warranty was only one year, but they'd send me another grip that same day. Nice to know someone cares enough . . . . .
 
DoubleTapDrew:

So, let me make sure I get this. You don't advocate using bedliner as a chamber and bore protector? :evil:

Doc2005
 
I was at the range this weekend and the RSO had a glock that he put bed liner on. Honestly it felt pretty nice but looked less than impressive. He told me that he had to mix up a good size batch so he did 7 at one time. He swears by it. I held it but did not shoot it.
 
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