Grips For A Para Wide Body

[sidnal]

Last weekend I found that the gun was slipping around a bit at our local IPSC match. It was 95degrees and had rained the night before...a lovely Texas afternoon. I have a 1640 limited with skateboard tape on the front strap. The plastic grips from Para are worthless and I've been wanting to replace them anyway

My preference would be a full skateboard tape-type of grip. Agrip is too fufu...too soft. I've investigated sanding down and grip taping the whole grip. A possibility, but all of the examples I've seen look rigged... Would like to find a good after-market wrap-around grip.

Does anyone sell any good wraparound grips for the Para Wide Body? NOT rubber...grooved plastic would be better. Several very good ones are made for the STI frames...can't find much out there for a Para but home remedies.

Thanks for the input.

Sidnal

[diehli]

This should be a helluva lot closer than anything else you'd be able to find: http://www.ericwesselman.com/store/STI_SV.html

[ParaJoe]

I ran into the same thing that you are and basically just went the grip tape method. I went to the local skateboard shop and bought enough to do one board and it's lasted me quite a while. I used a set of Hogue wrap arounds as a pattern. Here's how it looks.

[folsoml]

I did the same as Parajoe, but his looks better. It works great. Plus, I didn't like how thick the grips were originally.

[Cameron]

Contact Jim Shannahan at www.advancedperformanceshooting.com

He will texture your Para grips, and you will never have to worry about slippery gun again!

[TDean]

I took a soldering iron to the grips of my P14. Just use the tip of the iron to melt "dimples" into the plastic. Don't go too deep.

[LPatterson]

+1 for 300lbGorilla

I sanded the Para grip first to make it smaller and smother for the TruGrip. Maybe now that Eric is out of school & working for a living we can talk him into making a Para TruGrip.

[Byron Simpson]

Mine has aluminum spacers that fill in the back portion of the frame and then just grip tape used without any grip panels. It works great and is quite "grippy".

[BrianATL]

+1 for the Para trugrip

[Carmoney]

Mine has aluminum spacers that fill in the back portion of the frame and then just grip tape used without any grip panels.  It works great and is quite "grippy".

Byron, where can the aluminum spacers be purchased??

Thanks,

Mike

[Byron Simpson]

Mine has aluminum spacers that fill in the back portion of the frame and then just grip tape used without any grip panels.  It works great and is quite "grippy".

Byron, where can the aluminum spacers be purchased??

Thanks,

Mike

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Guncraft makes them. http://www.practicalshooting.com/g.html

Here's a pic before I changed to the red tape where you can see them better. You will need to drill and tap two holes for each grip filler as they attach with phillips screws.