Grips are grips right?

[lil toad]

Is putting Colt medaliion grips on a SA mil-spec sacrilege?

[stans]

Although they will physically fit, putting Colt stocks on a Springfield lowers the value of the Colt stocks. :D

Seriously, they should fit just fine.

[lil toad]

The grips are the wrap around checkered type. They feel really good on the SA, but the top of the grips just didn't feel right on the combat commander. The undercut trigger gaurd and those grips aren't a good combo. I put a set of Hogues on the Colt and put the Colt grips on the Springer. I was just wondering if the Colt fans would consider that to be sacrilege?

[SMMAssociates]

Actually, not sending me the SA is sacrilege, but.... :D

Probably not good if you're trying to sell it, or make a really good wall piece, but otherwise I don't see anything wrong with it.

'Course, Tuner will probably have a half-dozen reasons :) .

My own view is that anything you can do to/with/for the gun that can be more or less instantly reversed is fine. I.e. grips, triggers, hammers, safeties, beavertails (that don't require frame mods), sights (where they can easily be swapped without milling), etc.

'Course, the guys down at the gun shop or the range may razz you for it. Blame it on elves.... :eek:

The mob with the pitchforks and torches will be over as soon as somebody can find the camcorder. :cool:

[lil toad]

Na not selling it. The Springer's my project. I was just playing with it. Got bored and loosened some screws and voila! A springer with medallion grips. Their not on there permanently. I got some plans for the future. Especially when I hit the lottery.
As far as the guys at the range, I'll let the holes in the paper keep em quiet.

[1911Tuner]

Stans...You simply will not do.... :D

I wouldn't consider it a sin to put Colt grips on a Springfield at all...Whatever feels right for you is the right thing to do.

Just FWIW, you can get some nice checkered wood grips for less than 20 bucks from Brownells. Your choice of full checkered or classic double-diamond...standard bottoms or squared bottoms. They usually need a little
extra notching around the sear pin and mag catch areas for removal with the stocks in place, but that's a 3-second job with a round file.

Soon as I get caught up around here, I'll dig in the catalog and provide a few part numbers.

Stand by....

[lil toad]

I have other grips for it. I wanted to see how the Colt crowd reacted to the grips being put on a SA pistol. They seem to have taken it pretty well.

[SMMAssociates]

I have other grips for it. I wanted to see how the Colt crowd reacted to the grips being put on a SA pistol. They seem to have taken it pretty well.

Taken it pretty well? Tuner and I are buying torches even as I type this.... :eek: I think he's got the collies in Attack Training right now, too....

(I can't find the pitchfork - misplaced it while protesting Daylight Savings Time.... :cool: )

The truth, of course, is that whatever works is OK as long as it's not a wall piece or for sale.

(I probably should shut up - my one Colt has Pachmayr grips on it. The guy I inherited it from swapped grips many years back, and nobody knows where the originals went anyway. Since it's a shooter, I don't care, but....)

[wichaka]

Grips are grips, right?

Ohhhhhh..........and your Mother, was JUST a Mother. :D

[lil toad]

Now we're getting somewhere! :)

[John]

We are a civilized group, aren't we?

Now, if you would suggest to put those Colt grips on a Glock (if that was possible), then that's another story.

:-)

[lil toad]

What's a Glock? Is that one of those furry bird, sort of like an Emu? :D

[John]

LoL, close! It's like a bird all right, only it's black and slippery!

Rgds

[lil toad]

I used to like Glocks before my neighbor moved in. He is an "OFFICIAL" Glock armorer. :rolleyes: He does do some pretty amazing work on the grips. The one I like is how he uses a soldering iron to stipple the grip area. It really works it over. However it still isn't a 1911, and it definitelt ain't no Colt.... ;)
I figured on more hits on the grip subject, especially from my Colt commrades. Maybe they've disowned me. :confused:

[SMMAssociates]

To me, Glocks are a "love or hate" thing....

You can put me in the "hate" column.... Well, not exactly "hate", but....

What bothers me most is that you can't muck with the grips without some kludges. Not that I'm a purist, but I've owned very few guns where some other grip (or grip type) was better for me than what shipped with the gun.

I had a chance to put some through a .45 Sig a couple weeks ago. Can't recall the model number. Same sort of Glock-ish grip arrangement. Shoots nice, though. Same problem, too, I think, in changing grips.

My hands are big, but nothing spectacular, so I can use about anything that I find on a gun, but there are all kinds of comfort and "hold" issues that I prefer to solve myself.

Back on topic: My dealer is out of torches. Railway flares OK? :D

[lil toad]

Flares, come on. I was figuring on moltov cocktails. :p

[stumbler]

lil toad, PM me your snail mail address. I have some grips that have a brass insert without any markings. Non descript pebble finish rubber.

[SMMAssociates]

Flares, come on. I was figuring on moltov cocktails. :p

Hm.... Have you priced gasoline lately? :cool:

[wichaka]

Gluck, Gluck, Gluck.............

The sound a Glock makes when its thrown into a lake.

[gottripletsNC]

Gluck, Gluck, Gluck.............

The sound a Glock makes when its thrown into a lake.


If ya can get ya feelins hurt, this is the place :D :p

[John]

Hey you Americans, stop complaining about your gas prices. We are paying for the litre, what you are paying for the gallon, so don't make me more frustrated than I am already.

Now, where were those flares??!!!

One thing I hate with the Glock, is that the grip. I mean the old, first Glock-generation grip, without the finger-indexing things, was a bit better, but this latest incarnation, who did they model it after? King Kong?

(No, I do not hate Glocks, I just can't stand a tupperware in my waist. What if the cover is not secured? Will it spill soup in my pants?)

LoRL

[lil toad]

Keep em comin guys your doin great.



I have several different types of Colt grips. I was just playin around and put em on. :cool:

It sort of like putting a Lambourghini imitation body on a Fiero. :D

I know I'll really get some responses now. :rolleyes:

Especially from SA lovers.

[wichaka]

We'll help ya decide..........but we need some pics.

[RickB]

Unless the gun has both a Colt frame and Colt slide, I won't put medallion grips on it. I have a Colt .22 conversion on an Auto-Ord frame, and a Gold Cup top end on a Caspian frame, and neither of those guns wears medallions. If someone else isn't as persnickety about it, that's OK.

[lil toad]

My wife's digital camera is horrible. After the new year we are going shopping. When we get one I'll post my pics. Her camera now doesn't do the any justice.

[SMMAssociates]

I picked up my first digital camera a couple of months ago.

Not the best by any means, but it's adequate.

Funny thing - must be the green paintjob, but the picture of my Tac-Four was the only one of any of my guns to come out with a white background, even though they were all shot on the same piece of white paper!

The others all come out kinda grey.... Gotta figure out how to work the "white balance" thingie....

I'd break out the Nikon but the camera shop up the road gets crazy enough when I come in anyway :eek: . I gave all my darkroom stuff to one of my daughter's girlfiends (that's not a typo!) a while back. It's been in storage since before either one of them was born, and the kid is really into it.

My cousin's a working professional photographer in New York, and he showed up in town with one that cost about $3,000. I had a hard time putting it back down, but decided that the wife wouldn't by "found it in the back of the safe" at all :D . That made my decision to drop about $350 a little easier, although I wouldn't mind a few of the features. (Not that I have the $3,000, or that the VISA would survive, but....)

[John]

My latest toy is a Minolta dSLR (as they call them, digital Single Lens Reflex), the dImage A1. It costed me (more than 6 months ago) 1000 Euros, it's 5 Mpixels and it has every bell and wistle you can think of. I never use some of its features, but it's great. The trick is that Minolta has come out with the dImage A2, which is an 8Mpixel camera, so the A1 prices should be very low. If you can find one, get it, you would not regret it.

Rgds

[SMMAssociates]

John:

There's always a new one....

I bought mine (Casio Exlim Z-40) on a closeout at Radio Shack of all places. They turned up with a new model about a week later that would have been worth waiting for. Never fails.... Just like computers....

That Minolta is a good choice, going by the reviews I've seen. My Casio's just a point & shoot, which is good enough for what I wanted. The camera shop will put my stuff on a CD if asked, so if I do decide to shoot film, I've got it both ways.

The Nikon's an old N6006, circa 1990. "Computer"-style - no knobs, just buttons, but essentially an ordinary SLR with a microprocessor. I was deep into film-based photography in the 70's, but basically put everything in the closet or the basement after the wife and I bought our first house in 1979.

'Round 1988 I bought an N4004 for myself as a birthday gift. Great little camera, but too automatic. You could switch to manual modes, but then all the controls were goofy enough to require using a tripod. I swapped it for the N6006 which at least lets you get creative if you feel like it without needing somebody to hold the camera. It'd be heaven if the LCD had a backlight.

We had a flood in the basement last summer, and Becka's girlfriend helped clean it up by taking most of the stored darkroom gear and a couple of (dry - they were upstairs) cameras. I expect that this stuff would have brought a couple hundred bucks on E-Bay, but between the packaging and shipping hassles, not to mention the scams, giving it to a good home seemed to make more sense. I used to hang with the kid's late grandfather. We both worked on "little theater" stuff locally - he built sets, and I did lighting. Almost family.

(I guess I'm getting old :) - Becka's got three other girlfriends who's grandparents were friends of mine. I'm younger than those folks, but not that much....)

Regards,

[John]

You are right Stu, there is always a new one. About 3 years ago, I got a Sony Cybershot, 3.2 Mpixels etc, snapshot camera mostly, everything automatic. When the battery went south, and I went to buy a new one, it costed 80 Euros. With 180 Euros, I could get a Canon 3.2 Mpixels camera, so I said no thanks.

Is it my idea, or the time has come to move this thread to the General Discussion area, under the title of "Whatever!"? LoL

Rgds