Armored farmer
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I had bicycle innertube wraps on my saddle horn, but never on a pistol.
Rubber Band on your pistol grip?
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KevininPa
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I've heard of this old school concept. Think I'll stick with TalonGrips. Not expensive and purtier!
tangara
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After shooting my Kahr CM9 for 250 rounds the first time it has warn a bike tube sleeve ever since. Helps grip but also cuts down on the polymer serrations digging into hands and fingers.
hoardingthemanual
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Interesting but I like a Hogue grip.
Ironicaintit
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Hmmm innertube you say....
Anchorite
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Old school. Colt Agent daily carry until the time change in November.
Anchorite
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For me, it provides a center-of-palm swell that also keeps my Colt upright in my front pocket (along with my holster), and that swell helps me in pointing.
WestKentucky
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Wasn’t a rubber band the predecessor to a Glock switch? If a shoestring is a machine gun….
CapnMac
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Bicycle tube does wonders. The diameter of the "hole" is base on how "diagonal" you cut the tube. Square across, you get a small ring; the more "slanted" the cut, the bigger the space. To wrap around an M-1 (Steel) Helmet, you need about a 60-70° cut on the tube, so that there's about 8" between the two.
So just stop by a bike shop and ask for a couple of tubes (with holes/leaks) from the trash.
They usually have some, for sure on a Saturday...
I recall using 26x2.0 or 26x1.75 but most MTB tubes today are 29 inch, so 29x1.75 or 29x2.0.
I cut the top at an angle to go up the back strap.
Use Windex and it will slide on easier.
Rubber Band on your pistol grip?
I've seen it a few times in passing, I think in the Bruce Willis movie hostage I think he had a whole mess of rubber bands around the grip of his G26 but since then I've seen it a few more times here and there and was just wondering if it was an old cops trick or semi common or well known...
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gwpercle
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My first 45 acp was a Star model PS ... which is a 1911 copy without the grip safety .
My hand is shaped where half the time it doesn't activate the grip safety of a standard 1911 ... it has always been a problem .
For a number of years I shot in a NRA Bullseye Match league , 22 cal , 38 cal and 45 cal ... my 45 was the Star model PS then a Colt Gold Cup ... the Gold Cup had the grip safety and it gave me fits ...
I brought it to a Gunsmith and asked how much for him to pin it in place ... he picked up a large rubber band that had come around the mail ... wrapped it around the grip safety and said "No Charge" !
He also said he didn't like to de-activate safeties but the rubber band trick wasn't perminant and easy to remove when I wanted the safety back in operation . And it worked !
Gary
My hand is shaped where half the time it doesn't activate the grip safety of a standard 1911 ... it has always been a problem .
For a number of years I shot in a NRA Bullseye Match league , 22 cal , 38 cal and 45 cal ... my 45 was the Star model PS then a Colt Gold Cup ... the Gold Cup had the grip safety and it gave me fits ...
I brought it to a Gunsmith and asked how much for him to pin it in place ... he picked up a large rubber band that had come around the mail ... wrapped it around the grip safety and said "No Charge" !
He also said he didn't like to de-activate safeties but the rubber band trick wasn't perminant and easy to remove when I wanted the safety back in operation . And it worked !
Gary
Bazoo
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I seen someone in walmart that had a gp101 stuffed in a back pocket and had a rubber band around the grip. I inquired why the rubber band and was told it helped with grip. Didn't do anything back discreet back pocket carry.
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This. It's what I thought the thread was about.
There was a cop show some years back, originally set in Chicago, and then Vegas.
There was a gunny somewhere in the background; one cop carried a 1911 with the gumbands on the grip safety, another had a long barrel Model 27.
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megatronrules
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It's funny to see this post as I've just did this exact same thing with my current EDC a kahr PM45. I have to say I actually like it quite a bit. It really helps with gripping the gun especially when it has sweat on it.
I don't like the finger grooves on the hogue slip on grips and the pachmayr one to me is too think with it's palm swells. My brother has the rubberized talon grips on his Sig P365XL and to me they don't offer much better grip,and their granulated ones are TOO rough and abrasive to me. So the rubber bands to me are perfect and only costs a few bucks.
I don't like the finger grooves on the hogue slip on grips and the pachmayr one to me is too think with it's palm swells. My brother has the rubberized talon grips on his Sig P365XL and to me they don't offer much better grip,and their granulated ones are TOO rough and abrasive to me. So the rubber bands to me are perfect and only costs a few bucks.
megatronrules
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I forgot to post pictures in my last post. I also forgot to mention that tennis racket grip tape works very well too.
I love my kahr PM45 it's the smallest lightest 45acp gun I've found. Also keep in mind this is coming from a dyed in the wool 1911 and revolver guy.
I love my PM45 because it's a lot smaller and lighter than the smallest 1911 which I believe is a Kimber ultra carry or Colt defender. I've owned two Colt defender 45's over the years and while with their 3 inch slides and barrels and aluminum frames,yes they are A LOT lighter and "lightweight" they are compared to a fullsize steel frame or even aluminum frame 5" government or commander 1911., their still big and heavy compared to the PM45.
I also love the kahr PM45 concealed carry because it's so small and lightweight for a 45acp. In fact it's barely bigger/heavier than the kahr PM9 I sold to buy it. Plus it's snag free and has no safety to worry about forgetting to snick off and it's double action only trigger is smooth and nice,a lot like my M&P340 J frame.
I love my kahr PM45 it's the smallest lightest 45acp gun I've found. Also keep in mind this is coming from a dyed in the wool 1911 and revolver guy.
I love my PM45 because it's a lot smaller and lighter than the smallest 1911 which I believe is a Kimber ultra carry or Colt defender. I've owned two Colt defender 45's over the years and while with their 3 inch slides and barrels and aluminum frames,yes they are A LOT lighter and "lightweight" they are compared to a fullsize steel frame or even aluminum frame 5" government or commander 1911., their still big and heavy compared to the PM45.
I also love the kahr PM45 concealed carry because it's so small and lightweight for a 45acp. In fact it's barely bigger/heavier than the kahr PM9 I sold to buy it. Plus it's snag free and has no safety to worry about forgetting to snick off and it's double action only trigger is smooth and nice,a lot like my M&P340 J frame.
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Cloth electricians tape works also.
shoobe01
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The second rubber band ever made commercially was put on a pistol as far as I can guess. Seen on museum examples and historical photos of revolvers from at least the 1930s, likely much older than that as 1) Rubber bands degrade, would fall off on their own 2) Are easy to remove, so almost any gun up for resale, display, restoration, etc would have them pulled. Heard discussed by lawmen fighting motor bandits, etc. as a good trick for a grip, and also added grip for holsterless carry (in waist or in pocket) to keep more stable.
Yes, used in many ways, to add palm swells, disable grip safeties, etc. Remember that even through to the mid-1990s there were VERY few aftermarket accessories. A handful of grip makers, and often only for a few gun models, you mail order and hope no fitting. In the late 1990s I had to make a complex jig to router a notch for ambi safety on... something (may have been 1911 series, may not) because there was No Other Option. The only aftermarket stocks available for the gun in question simply did not provide for that functionality.
Lots of home-brew stuff back then. Bondo. Sheet metal... in some fairly unrestricted target pistol classes people would wrap sheet metal grips around that they had punched holes in from the other side and sanded down the poking up metal /just/ enough to not draw blood, to get an immovable grip!
Today we're very spoiled for choice.
Yes again: the Hogue Handall was basically invented to get around the rubber band and inner-tube hacks and the grip swell was also based, IIRC, on the most popular complaint for grip mods. Hogue had no moral stance on the best grip, they just sold what people wanted generally. They were early aftermarket makers and the Handall allowed them to offer a product for ANY gun. Literally in the catalog like that, and their early website. Look up gun models their stocks fit and that was always offered, even if nothing else.
Yes, used in many ways, to add palm swells, disable grip safeties, etc. Remember that even through to the mid-1990s there were VERY few aftermarket accessories. A handful of grip makers, and often only for a few gun models, you mail order and hope no fitting. In the late 1990s I had to make a complex jig to router a notch for ambi safety on... something (may have been 1911 series, may not) because there was No Other Option. The only aftermarket stocks available for the gun in question simply did not provide for that functionality.
Lots of home-brew stuff back then. Bondo. Sheet metal... in some fairly unrestricted target pistol classes people would wrap sheet metal grips around that they had punched holes in from the other side and sanded down the poking up metal /just/ enough to not draw blood, to get an immovable grip!
Today we're very spoiled for choice.
Yes again: the Hogue Handall was basically invented to get around the rubber band and inner-tube hacks and the grip swell was also based, IIRC, on the most popular complaint for grip mods. Hogue had no moral stance on the best grip, they just sold what people wanted generally. They were early aftermarket makers and the Handall allowed them to offer a product for ANY gun. Literally in the catalog like that, and their early website. Look up gun models their stocks fit and that was always offered, even if nothing else.
