grip reduction

[crackertom]

Ok, this may be a no no on this site but I was looking for some input on the subject. I have googled grip reduction and got a few sites that do it, but the gun looks like crap afterward. I have been paying attention to my natural grip and sure enough, I have to drop the nose slightly to line up the sights. I thought for sure there would be a kit out there you could buy with stencils and a hogue like grip to fit over the gun afterward that looks good and feels good. The places on the net that do it make the guns look like they torched them and made them all bubbly.

[GRR]

Originally posted by crackertom
Ok, this may be a no no on this site but I was looking for some input on the subject. I have googled grip reduction and got a few sites that do it, but the gun looks like crap afterward. I have been paying attention to my natural grip and sure enough, I have to drop the nose slightly to line up the sights. I thought for sure there would be a kit out there you could buy with stencils and a hogue like grip to fit over the gun afterward that looks good and feels good. The places on the net that do it make the guns look like they torched them and made them all bubbly.

Check out Daniel Tripp's work at www.southpawcustom.com

[Cyclic]

Had mine done by:


Heritage Firearms
13497 N Hwy 183 Ste 300A, Austin, TX

Cost me $100 if I remember right.

Decent job and right down the road from you.

[crackertom]

Heritage is easily the best I've seen so far. A friend of mine in Austin mentioned them to me. I would actually consider having them do it.

[Bluecard]

Let me second Heritage Firearms. Tom has done several reductions/mods for me in the past. Here is a photo showing the mods on my G17 and G35.

[Skpotamus]

I had my 30 done at http://www.burnscustom.com/ I liked his better than the robarmy buddy had done.

If nothing else, he has pictures in his gallery of his, Robars and ARS grip reductions.

[hankhan]

Do it yourself.

http://www.brownells.com/aspx/NS/General/DisplayPDF.aspx?f=glock.pdf

If you're having to drop the nose to get sight allignment - that's a common thing with Glocks due to the 13 degree grip angle. You want to get that grip angle closer to 11 degrees - try some modeling clay on the back of the grip (near the top) and see how much you have to add to get the allignment correct, then replace the clay with bondo when you've got it where you want it. Paint it and you're done. Nice thing is you can add more bondo or sand it down to get the grip just right. I used this on my Hammerli and Pardini target guns, works good.

Something else that works well is the Crimson Trace laser grip gizmo changes the angle to be almost perfect.