The grips on my revolver came from Taurus, and while I don’t have any problem with the design, which is classic and hard to screw up, the execution has never been first-rate. Every time I practiced, the seam just under the trigger guard tried to rub a hole in the side of my finger. Annoying.
I ended up wrapping the top of the grip in electrical tape. That worked, but it was kinda hillbilly even by the standards of a guy who claims not to mind going hillbilly. So I asked Ian to find me a roll of friction tape. I figured I’d wrap the whole grip in tape with texture, and then it would look like something I actually meant to do instead of a between-the-stages kludge. But it seems that “friction tape” is something not sold anymore, or at least not commonly. Bother.
Then Ian said, “You could wrap it in a bicycle tube, I guess.” And while he was opening his mouth to add, “But where would you get a bicycle tube?” I said, “Brilliant! Why didn’t I think of that?” Because of course I do have a couple of bicycle tubes, because I never throw anything away. Last year I fixed the tires on H’s horse cart, after she tangled with a patch of thorns. On the theory that almost everything comes in handy sometime, I took the old tubes home and hung them on the wall in my shed.
This is Mk. II, because stretching a tube over rubber grips is hard. Mk. II works perfectly. But I’ll probably do it a third time for appearance because I was getting the hang of it.
Now that’s a darn cool idea! Only problem with me doing that is it would increase the size of the grip even a little, and it’s already ALMOST too large for me to hold properly and reach the trigger. Dang… I’ll have to give that some thought. Was going to replace the stock grip, but just have not gotten into the city to get it done. Hate to drive 160 miles just for that anyway.
The tube gets stretched really thin, ML. I think you’d find that the difference it makes to the diameter is microscopic, if you can detect it at all.
Learned this little trick while replacing the sling shot bands on a sling shot. Turn the band inside out and THEN insert onto object as far as possible. When done, roll the remaining material over. Saved me heaps of trouble.
You may have done that already, I’m just suggesting just in case.
You aren’t the only one who has had issues with that little cavity behind the trigger guard, especially with magnum revolvers. Many aftermarket grips are designed to eliminate this.
That’s pretty much what I did, JR. Though I had to work out just the right trick.