1911 Grips

Nomad · Post by **Nomad** » July 24th, 2007, 3:20 pm

I just bought a Kimber Tactical Custom II and took it to the range. After about 50 rounds, I noticed that my had was slipping a little bit with each recoil. What I am looking for now is to change the grips on the gun.

Does anyone here have any recommendations on some type of soft rubber to remedy the problem?

GSXRanger · Post by **GSXRanger** » July 24th, 2007, 3:45 pm

Grow a little... you are all of five feet nothing.

Work out a bit... you weigh like, a buck oh five...

J/K

Add a piece of skateboard tape to the front strap... and make sure you are gripping it properly...

Rangerguru · Post by **Rangerguru** » July 24th, 2007, 4:18 pm

I have found that skateboard tape works the best.

CatFish Driver · Post by **CatFish Driver** » July 24th, 2007, 11:29 pm

I have Hogue grips on my 1911. I love em. Soft rubber, great grip and easy to install.

Nomad · Post by **Nomad** » July 26th, 2007, 6:45 am

Tater Nuts wrote: Hogue makes a set of panels with a slight palm swell and no fingergrooves (promotes a poor grip IMO) that are great, feels like a Browning High Power.

Can you elaborate on that statement. It's not making sense to me. Thanks!

Rangerguru · Post by **Rangerguru** » July 26th, 2007, 11:17 am

Tater Nuts wrote:
Matador275 wrote:
Tater Nuts wrote: Hogue makes a set of panels with a slight palm swell and no fingergrooves (promotes a poor grip IMO) that are great, feels like a Browning High Power.
Can you elaborate on that statement. It's not making sense to me. Thanks!
Fingergrooves suck in my opinion and teaching experience. A grip with open fingers is weaker than one with closed. Do you spread your fingers when doing the overhead laddr or keep them tightly together ? The closed finger grip with the lower three fingers of the off hand placed over and in the natural hollows between the strong hand fingers, the weak hand trigger finger is pushed up against the bottom of the trigger guard pulled in tight and locks the two hand together with isometric tension. Weak thumb lays along the frame parallel to and just under the slide (on the slide stop for a right handed person) the strong thumb lays on top of the weak thumb with both thumbtips pointing downrange.
One can not obtain the above grip with a set of grips that have a fingergrooved frontstrap, so I recomend a set of slabs rather than a wrap-around style. Houge makes a set of hard polymer slabs with a slight palmswell that are excellent and are only abaout 10 dollars. The softer the grip compound the more the weapon can flex given the same grip tension. This and the fact that soft tacky grips do not allow your shirt to smoothly slide back and forth causing your gun to "print" when concealed is why I recomend the harder polymer material over the rubber type.
The Browning Hi-Power has an excellent grip feel for me, indexes well, and has a good natural point which makes muscle memory training quick and easy. The Houge polymer slabs create the same "feel" on the 1911.

http://www.hogueinc.com/getgrip/merchan ... 146&step=4

The other thing with finger grips is that for me, on a Glock anyways, is that my dick beaters are rather large so the finger groves don't line up with my fingers. The part that should go between your fingers is about half way in the middle of mine. I use a Houge slip on grip and it helps, but that's about the only thing that does work.

FIST TEAM LTR · Post by **FIST TEAM LTR** » July 27th, 2007, 7:20 pm

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