Bicycle inner tube as a slip on grip
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Bicycle tubes make excellent handgun grips. Visit you local bike dealer as they discard used tubes and they're free for the asking. Just find the right size tubes to fit your needs.
Cut the tube slightly longer than you think you need as stretching it over the grip will cause it to shorten a bit.
Bicycle tubes make excellent handgun grips. Visit you local bike dealer as they discard used tubes and they're free for the asking. Just find the right size tubes to fit your needs.
Cut the tube slightly longer than you think you need as stretching it over the grip will cause it to shorten a bit.
But you do realize that using a rubber just isn't the same, right?
The best mod I have found for a poor grip on any handgun is to buy a roll of friction tape (black fabric tape that is slightly tacky) Looks funky - works REAL well. Bicycle handlebar tape is great too. Use your imagination. Inner tube grips are so - ghetto. I have only one gun that has lousy grips and no one makes a decent replacement for - A Charter Bulldog Pug revolver. Friction tape made it my favorite CCW gun. As soon as your hand comes into contact with the grip you are in control. Some people will laugh - who cares if it allows you to drill a target cleanly? All credit for this goes to Jim Cirillo of the NYPD, may he rest in peace. That guy could shoot.
The best mod I have found for a poor grip on any handgun is to buy a roll of friction tape (black fabric tape that is slightly tacky) Looks funky - works REAL well. Bicycle handlebar tape is great too. Use your imagination. Inner tube grips are so - ghetto. I have only one gun that has lousy grips and no one makes a decent replacement for - A Charter Bulldog Pug revolver. Friction tape made it my favorite CCW gun. As soon as your hand comes into contact with the grip you are in control. Some people will laugh - who cares if it allows you to drill a target cleanly? All credit for this goes to Jim Cirillo of the NYPD, may he rest in peace. That guy could shoot.
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I bought the cheapest bicycle inner tube at Walmart and cut that up for my compact pistol. It helped a lot. Later I stretched it onto a 1911. That wasn't so good. My carry is wrapped with a thick tape to increase it's diameter and cushion the recoil. The other carry wears a wrap for a baseball bat. Some day I'll buy a real grip - maybe.
They work great. Most of my handguns have them as well as my AR's. They work better than the Hogue Hand-All's because they are thinner, but still provide a little grip. One Bicycle tube will do many, many guns.
So far I haven't had a problem. I used the same tube for a G-21 and a Kel-Tec P3AT.
So far I haven't had a problem. I used the same tube for a G-21 and a Kel-Tec P3AT.
My SW 1911Sc didn't come with a checkered frontstrap so I bought some skateboard grip tape (Comes in a 3'X10" piece for about $7) cut out a very small section, enough to cover the front strap and go under the grips. Works amazingly. I have enough left over for about 200 more applications.
GHETTO GUN RAP:
(music) Ba -boom -boom- ba- ba- ba -boom)...
Got inner tube on my gat...
...some say you shouldn't do dat...
... got it on there for the feel...
...grip is slippery..just be'n real.
Guess I'm ghetto too.
Inner tube on my Gen2 G22.
Works very well. Sure grip on hot or rainy days and I don't have to walk around with tacky/sticky hands.
Almost forgot, inner tube on a couple P 64's as well.
Man, I'm more ghetto then I realized.
May have to start saggin, wearin my hat with a lean and start shootin with pistol tilted sideways.
(music) Ba -boom -boom- ba- ba- ba -boom)...
Got inner tube on my gat...
...some say you shouldn't do dat...
... got it on there for the feel...
...grip is slippery..just be'n real.
Guess I'm ghetto too.
Inner tube on my Gen2 G22.
Works very well. Sure grip on hot or rainy days and I don't have to walk around with tacky/sticky hands.
Almost forgot, inner tube on a couple P 64's as well.
Man, I'm more ghetto then I realized.
May have to start saggin, wearin my hat with a lean and start shootin with pistol tilted sideways.
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thedudeabides
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I'll bite.
Use a mountain tube, they are thicker and bigger around; get one that's at least 2'' around (it'll be printed on the tube). A DH tube that's 2.5'' may be the most ideal but good luck finding one in some areas.
Turn it inside out, too, it tends to be smoother inside.
If you overlap them, they can give a positive hump on the front or back of the grip, if you have big hands.
Use a mountain tube, they are thicker and bigger around; get one that's at least 2'' around (it'll be printed on the tube). A DH tube that's 2.5'' may be the most ideal but good luck finding one in some areas.
Turn it inside out, too, it tends to be smoother inside.
If you overlap them, they can give a positive hump on the front or back of the grip, if you have big hands.
Dragline45
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Spend a few dollars more and get a Hogue Handall or Hogue Handall Jr grip sleeve.
YARDDOG(1)
New member
Correct...
Friction tape would be "redneck".
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So True Have a few myself ;Y/D
Friction tape would be "redneck".
^^^^^^^
So True
Have a few myself ;Y/DFriction tape doesn't slide around on the grip like most of the ones I have seen. But, OK, maybe friction tape is "ghetto" also. I am just amused that a manufacturer would put a gun on the market with a grip that is so lousy that people need to stretch and inner tube over it. Gaston started all of this stuff.
Gaston started all of this stuff.