Pistol Grip from old bicycle tube

**fought** · Posted On: 1/14/2009 6:43pm

ok so this is my 1st post on this forum. i googled "bicycle inner tube grip" and behold, a cool martial arts forum. anyway, i happened to make this grip for my ruger, because i'm a cheap lazy **** and didnt want to wait for the hogue grip. nor pay the $20. the inner tube was $3 at walmart, and i've managed to get 5 good grips out of 1 tube. heres what happened with the ruger...

and my xd

doesnt look too awful bad, trimming the extra and using some hair spray to secure it helped a great deal, works like a charm.

also did the grip on my m4 and plan on doing my usp as well.

taking your time, trial and error, couple **** ups and you should have a nice grip for a lot less than what you'd pay for pachmayrs.

good luck.

fought

**JRT6** · Posted On: 1/15/2009 7:29am

Inner tube grip is so 1990. I really hate those slop on grips with the finger grooves. I've used grip tape for years but now pretty all the gun manufactutors either make grips with a grip tape texture or you can get custom made tape that is cut and designed to stay on like locktite.

**Scrapper** · Posted On: 1/15/2009 7:35am

I, for one, LOVE hogue grips.

I have a set on Big Daddy, and it has made that monster (.454 Casull) SOOOOO much nicer to shoot. Plastic or wood on a gun with that much recoil is unpleasant. It's like getting rapped across the palm with a piece of rebar.

I put a set on my 4" .357 and it has made that weapon much more comfortable to shoot as well.

I do agree that with the automatics and better behaved loads it's kind of unnecessary, though. But since the magnums and Casull you tend to be gripping fairly securely anyway, I like the marginal increase in recoil absorbtion that rubber gives me.