Scotsman1886
Bearcat
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Anyone grind off the finger groves on a rubber hogue grip? If so, how?
Anyone grind off the finger groves on a rubber hogue grip? If so, how?
hogue grip finger groves
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woodsy
Blackhawk
I did. I don't think you will like my results. I used a 1" wide stationary belt sander, using the upper guide wheel, and 80-grit belt. Did a good job, but it exposed the underlying nylon "body" of the grip. Not pretty at all. Since it was for a Single-Ten to be used only for hunting I didn't care much. But, I discovered that it also did not accommodate my rather large hands any better, so I made my own replacement wood (over-height) grips, which turned out a whole lot better. Then I discarded the butchered Hogue grip.
David Bradshaw
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woodsy said:
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Scotsman1886.... this is the problem----the "overmolded" concept. The Hogue is not a grip for modification.
David Bradshaw
Hogue sells a rubber non finger groove grip, I bought one for my SRH because my big fat fingers did not fit in the finger grooved one. Didn't like that one either and bought a non finger groove wood grip from hogue. It had a way larger palm swell that fits my hand great.
Jimbo357mag
Hawkeye
I used coarse sandpaper to smooth off most of the protrusions on the Hogue grip on my GP-100. Be careful not to take off too much, I started to expose a little of the under stuff on the back strap area.
Hondo44
Hawkeye
You have to slit the rubber vertically at the high points, grind away the under layer bumps with a Dremel tool, then glue the rubber back together after trimming the original cut edges where the high points were so the rubber layer glues flat.
daveg.inkc
Hunter
Or buy Pachmayr "Presentations". Good shooting grips.
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