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I am not 100% certain but I think that adding epoxy would make it illegal for Production. It could. But it wouldn't have to. "Glue and grit is considered the same as stippling." App. D4 21.4 Now, if he really piles it on and "changes the factory profile" then he'd probably get bumped. If I really piled it on and just made the entire thing fatter, would that be considered changing the profile? I would think that changing the profile would mean building up just one part of the grip....say the backstrap area only. Then the preportions get thrown off. I still have to consider the added mass as well. I may just have to put as many layers on as possible, then practice more with that grip until I get use to it. Spend more time with it, stay away from my other guns until it becomes a part of me....at least until I can afford to start shooting/practicing with a major caliber and gun.

... Tennis racket tape sounds kind of ghetto for a firearm. Especially since you'd have to apply electrical (or other) tape to keep it from unraveling. I'll keep it in mind if nobody has any info on thicker sandpaper style grip tape. Hey, I live in the ghetto... I live right just a few blocks up from the ghetto and commute by bicycle everyday through a dozen housing projects. I teach at a school that serves 22 housing projects. I can make ghetto jokes and not feel guilty about it. Especially since most are using the system as a hammock instead of a safety net.

I used to use a barstool that was too high. I'd get all crampy and have to take lots of breaks. That was before I found this forum. I recently relocated and rebuilt my bench. Got rid of the stool and found a chair that puts the top of the handle right at shoulder height for me. The difference is amazing. I stand most of the day in my profession....moving around a lot as well. Getting to sit down and settle in to a hundred rounds in the evening is relaxing. Now if it would cool off a bit to get rid of the mosquitoes that keep invading my garage.

Funny thing about the tennis racket tape......On my ride home from work today I remembered how I had to build up the grip on my tennis racket when I was a teen. I bought the biggest grip made but I couldn't double wrap it because the octagon shape got to rounded. I had to glue on strips of aluminum to keep the integrity of the octagon then apply the tape. Tennis racket tape sounds kind of ghetto for a firearm. Especially since you'd have to apply electrical (or other) tape to keep it from unraveling. I'll keep it in mind if nobody has any info on thicker sandpaper style grip tape.

Does anyone know if any companies specifically make thick grip tape for the G17? If not specifically for it, who makes the thickest grip tape? I'd like to make my grip a bit larger (without putting the gun over the production weight limit...so less than 2 oz. of tape) as I have really long fingers and any additional size would help. Yes, a large frame would give me a bit bigger grip, but I'm on the 9mm as a beginner competitor trying the sport on a budget. One day I'll be able to build up an STI 45 with a massive grip and run it in the open category.

This hasn't caused you any consistency issues with accuracy or when you had to get chrono'd at a match? If no, then what components and brew are you using?

Bill is who worked on mine. I'll try to sell and look for a double stack 1911.

I just had a trigger job done on my older USP 45 full size. I sent it off to someone who had been recommended by lots of members on another forum. I got it back and I can definitely tell a difference in the SA pull, but the DA pull still sucks monkey butt. I also had it drop the hammer without hitting the firing pin. This happened several times in a row but only on one magazine. It didn't happen again after that....about 4 more mags worth of ammo. Does that LEM trigger significantly reduce the DA pull? Isn't it DA only? Or is it just like the action in the stock trigger...DA only after dropping the hammer then SA after that? I'd like to sell this pistol, but with such a wonky trigger and about 4000 rounds through it, I wouldn't expect much coin.

I ride a bicycle to work everyday on some pretty busy streets. There are many times when I get to work and don't remember anything about the ride. Those are days when I'm usually working something out it my head. Most times I can't even remember what I was thinking about. I know I was thinking about something....probably something that was troubling me, but after the ride I can't even remember what it was. My ride to work is mostly downhill. Back home is a good climb and this is the first year I've started getting the same mental experiences on the ride home as I do going to work. It's been suffering hot still in the mid to high 90's and that hill sucks and it seems I'm sucking on a hairdryer. I'm completely blown away about how many times I've found myself in the front yard completely oblivious to the fact that I just rode home in ridiculous heat not remembering a single thing about the ride home...but I know I was thinking about something. I just can't remember what it was.

Good to see there are other mtbr's on here. And ones that like hk. After workouts is when you can "eat anything and get away with it" as one of my kinesiology buddies used to always say. But of course the higher quality the food, the better. You definitely need to refuel with more carbs if you are doing long endurance stuff. Your body is more able to refuel the muscle cells with carbs/sugars immediately after a workout. Some good advice up above too, but I'd go easy on the protien....28 to 30 grams max. I always hated those first runs of the season. Especially the downhills.

I saw my dad shoot a whitetail with his 44 redhawk. After he pulled the trigger, a small tree fell over just in front of the deer. He shot through a 2" diameter oak then into the deer. He was using a solid hard cast bullet. The deer dropped faster than the tree. I'm shooting a redhawk 454. It's smooth as silk, but with lead bullets without gas checks, the barrel fouls up pretty quickly...even when I load 45 colt brass as light as possible. I've yet to hunt with it, but one day...

Reading this thread is a trip. I almost did a graduate thesis on cross-dominance. It's common in lots of sports with the most impacted being the shooting sports. We're talking golf, tennis, pool, yadda yadda. I'm not sure how the army trains pistol shooters, but with rifle shooters, they make you shoot left handed if you are left eye dominant. With almost a month of familiarization before ever hitting a live fire range, it seems to work. I got interested in this because my wife is cross dominant. She learned to shoot her compound bow left-handed and she's a pretty good shot. We're still working on the pistol thing and we're shooting right handed, both eyes open with the squint technique that the guys at Front Sight recommend. She likes "quiet" sports so it's hard to pull her off the archery range when we go to the club. Oh well. At least she likes to go with me and it's kind of good because we can put the 5 month old in the baby backpack and she can shoot arrows all day and not make him go deaf.

Hello all. I'm wrapping up a long hobby/career (I never got paid for it but got lots of free stuff) in mountain biking. My wife retired last year after winning her second national championship in single speed (yep...that's one gear...like a big bmx bike). I've always been into shooting but for the past 6 years the mountain biking has been the center of life. I'm still very involved in the trail building scene and I head up a local club in my home town. I did 4 years in the Army and used to shoot weekly at the post's gun club. I have a USP 45, a MKII, a redhawk 454, and a few long guns. I have a Dillon 550B mothballed right now, but after a recent "intervention" in my garage I finally have the space to set my bench back up. With about a dozen high end mountain bikes, spare wheels, boxes of new tires, and drawers full of parts, things were getting bad. Luckily my entire Labor Day weekend didn't got to waste and I was able to dial in my garage and still have time to get outside. Being a competitive person, I want to get back into shooting with the intention of hitting some competitions. I shot an IDPA qualifier years ago not knowing what I was doing. I've also done small-bore bench rest....kind of boring, and I shot skeet a bunch when I was a kid. With the economy the way it is, I'm liking the 2-gun rimfire idea. My wife really likes to shoot the MKII and she has an old marlin 22 lever gun she enjoys. Purchasing something like the m&P 15-22 would be ok with her. (It used to not be like that (finances going through the wife) but we just had our first kid and we're now on one income.) I live in El Paso, TX. There are IDPA and IPSC matches at the post club. There are also IDPA and CCW matches at a club in las Cruces, NM. Since rimfire 2-gun hasn't hit here yet and not hearing anything about rimfire steel challenge, I'm thinking of purchasing a 9mm. I'm digging the FNX-9 from FN, but also the glocks since there are magwells, cheap mags, and lots of parts/info available. I also don't mind taking guns apart and doing my own smith work as long as I don't have to spend too much money. I have the AGI videos for my USP and my MK II and don't have any fear taking them down to the last part. There are lots of gun forums out there which is kind of interesting. I'm also on thehighroad.com and HKPro.com. You pretty much don't have to start a new thread to find anything out anymore. As for mountain bike forums, the top one is www.mtbr.com and that's pretty much it except for some local forums. Anyway....here I am and I'm liking the info I'm finding here. Very good stuff.