This is my duty pistol. I carry it every day and it's exposed to all the dangers that come from hanging off my belt. It rides in a Safariland Model 6280 holster. As I walk through doors and get in and out of cars, it gets banged around. I try to shield it as much as possible, but it gets its share of knocks.
Today after lunch, I reached down to adjust my belt and felt a sharp edge where there shouldn't have been a sharp edge. I got to my office and looked at the pistol. Damn! The right side grip panel was broken. I don't know when it happened, or how. I know that it felt all right when I put it in my holster this morning, and I don't remember hitting anything, but the grip panel is broken.
Just damn.
So, this afternon when I got home, I attached the stock double-diamonds that came with the pistol. For some reason, I've never particularly liked those grips. They're laminate and they have that big Kimber logo. I think it's the logo I don't like.
Last July, we got a new Sheriff who changed badges for all the deputies. So, the grips I broke were dated. Now I've got to decide if I want to buy a new grip with the new badge, get a set of double-diamonds without that Kimber logo, or just wear the stock grips.
Whaddya think?
6 comments:
PawPaw,
Whatever your dream grips are, go ahead and get them now. You are at that point in life where it's time to occasionally do something nice for you. I believe you are the type who is always doing for others. Do something nice for you.
What would Elmer do?
As for J, I like the ivory grips you broke. They're kinda John Wesley Hardinish. They're also what Wild Bill Hickock would do. G.S. Patton, too.
Wow! Now I see proof positive that you are a curmudgeon! How many other deputies at the SO carry a 1911 in Conditon One?
I say go ahead and replace with the same grips, if you can still get them.
Termite
I put some nice horn grips on my Gold Match. Handmade in Saigon, $55.00.
Get a lotta compliments.
I'd go with checkered walnut. Plain & simple.
The CocoBolo grips look nice, and take a deep checker, which makes them just the ticket for LEO's, who, likely as not, are going to have to fire multiple rounds.
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