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Wicked Grips
« on: August 06, 2024, 11:34:36 PM »
I was looking at Wicked Grips again and noticed their mailing address is just 10 miles from my house. And one of my friends I recently visited lives on the same road. Besides other 1911 grips, they make a baker's dozen for Para-Ordnance P-14.45s and other guns that use that frame. Plus they make a solid brass spike recoil plug. I'm trying to find out if they plan on making it from anything else, like stainless steel to match my gun, before I order one. I want to get a Falling Down T-shirt or at least a morale patch while I'm at it.

https://wickedgrips.com/1911-3d-metal-spring-plug-spike-government/

https://wickedgrips.com/gun-grips/1911-grips/para-ordnance-double-stack/
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Re: Wicked Grips
« Reply #1 on: August 06, 2024, 11:38:59 PM »
They make AR pistol grips and rail covers too.

https://wickedgrips.com/gun-grips/ar-15-grips/?sort=priceasc&page=1
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Re: Wicked Grips
« Reply #2 on: August 17, 2024, 03:13:44 PM »
Everything except clothing at Wicked Grips is on sale for at least 5% off, so I ordered a Brass Spike 1911 Government recoil spring plug. It was only 5% off, and our state sales tax is 6%, so it still wasn't a great price. Mammoth tooth grips and mammoth tusk ivory grips are 15% off, metal grips are 10% off, and everything else is supposed to be 5% off IIRC.

https://wickedgrips.com/1911-3d-metal-spring-plug-spike-government/

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Re: Wicked Grips
« Reply #3 on: August 20, 2024, 10:10:37 AM »
Man those are some nice grips.  My wife has a Kimber Ultra II 9mm in rose gold.  There's got to be some special grips that would really set that dude off.  And I like the gemstone encrusted screws.  All pricey but what the heck...I will have to sell a calf to get one for her and I'm tired of taking care of them anyway!

Well heck.  I didn't see any of those cool mamoth grips for the Kimber Ultra II.  I suppose I could have them make some easy enough if they have the stock.  Does anyone know of an easy program where I could "lift" the color and pattern of their stocks and impose it on a rose gold kimber frame to evaluate the best color/texture mix? 
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Re: Wicked Grips
« Reply #4 on: August 20, 2024, 02:34:47 PM »
I've figured out how to cut and paste images in Microsoft Paint, and if I want to rotate a picture by any number of degrees I use IrfanView (pronounced "EarfanView"), a free program named after its creator, Irfan Škiljan, originally from Jajce, Bosnia,, now living in Vienna, Austria. Here's a pic of waterfalls at the city where he used to live in.

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The guys at Wicked grips can't make the spike recoil plug out of stainless steel or anything like that. Too bad, but they only have equipment for working softer metals like brass and aluminum. If I can find a 6" one piece guide rod, I can sharpen the end of it like a pencil. :) Someone sells Glock guide rods like that, and you can use them as a standoff device.
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Re: Wicked Grips
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Re: Wicked Grips
« Reply #5 on: August 21, 2024, 04:21:09 PM »
I got my brass spike recoil plug today. I already got it dinged up by turning the barrel bushing into the side of it before the plug was all the way in. The 20 pound recoil spring makes it difficult to push the plug in that far. I should have used a small screwdriver on the lip of the plug when I pushed it in, but was too lazy to get one from another part of the house. Several seconds of turning the gun and a small wad of 00 steel wool back and forth against each other fixed it up. Not perfectly, but good enough. I figure there's no point to it, no pun intended, knowing what abuse the gun will see. The place the spring plug was mailed from in Flushing is only 11 1/2 miles away from my house. I like it when I find something I want that's made locally. 8)
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Re: Wicked Grips
« Reply #6 on: August 21, 2024, 05:25:06 PM »
I still don't know if the 20 round mags work or not. If not, at least I have something pointy to use as a weapon :D  I haven't checked yet to see if the pistol still fits in the Bianchi M-12 holster, NSN: 1095-01-194-3343, that I have. Its ambidextrous design, when combined with modular accessories, allows the M12 to be worn in 14 different positions. The M12 is specifically designed to fit the Beretta M9 (and M1911) semi-auto pistol and was awarded 5 separate patents for its design. It also fits full-size SIGs, Glocks, CZs, etc. It has a removable flap and detachable thumb strap for closed-top or open-top use, and has a plastic cleaning rod in the front with a flap/strap and snap to retain it. It converts to shoulder or chest carry with accessories, and came with a hard plastic tube in it that keeps it from collapsing when empty, even if you pile other stuff on top of it.
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Re: Wicked Grips
« Reply #7 on: August 21, 2024, 08:56:38 PM »
Let us know if the mags work.
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Re: Wicked Grips
« Reply #8 on: August 21, 2024, 09:42:37 PM »
Quote from: Rastus on August 21, 2024, 08:56:38 PM
Let us know if the mags work.

I don't know when I'll get around to it. Maybe I can go out in the woods and dump several mags on my way home after Labor Day. They're ProMag magazine tubes that I replaced the followers and baseplates with Para-Ordnance factory parts, and extended springs, either ISMI 13 coil 170mm springs or Wolff Custom Capacity springs with 3 extra coils, I can't recall which but they're both good.
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Re: Wicked Grips
« Reply #9 on: August 23, 2024, 01:40:46 PM »
I took my .45 apart and oiled it yesterday. I put an aluminum .22 caliber cleaning rod over the tip of the spike and pushed down on the handle. I had to tip the rod slightly to allow the barrel bushing to turn, and reassembly was the same. I used the same little bit of steel wool as before to shine up the spike when I was finished.

Besides this pistol, I'm taking my Contender with the 9" .223 Remington barrel on it next weekend. Along with the pistol, I'm taking a .22LR - .223 Chamber Adapter, a tin of 14.4 grain Crosman Copper Magnum Domed .22 Pellets, and a box of 100 Ramset CW Series .22 Powder Loads. These are the Yellow Level 4 loads, the highest power of the 3 levels available in .22 caliber. The Winchester W stamped "blanks" drop right into the adaptor. Unfortunately, the pellets fall right through. I may poke a small bit of toilet paper in before I load the pellet, then push both forward with the powder load when I chamber it. I just tried it with 1/16th of a sheet of toilet paper and it's like a self-contained cartridge as long as it's pointing down. :) Since the chamber adaptor will stay in the gun the whole time, it should work just fine. The tip of the blanks are small enough to fit partway into the skirt of the pellets keeping them centered and positioned as close to the breech as possible.
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