u/robinator118

Please give any criticism and don’t hold back. Grip used to be way way worse and I think I’m in a spot where I like the way the guns sit in my hands. Taken a few videos over the last few months with a variety of weird techniques until I settled on a proper and established grip style from watching a bunch of well regarded YouTube videos.

Wearing gloves since I’ve really torn up the skin around the right thumb knuckle and it’s finally starting to heal from the sharp edge of the beaver tail, I don’t wanna sand the edge down and fuck up the coating.

Trying to shoot the gun aggressively and erratically to try to reveal any deviation of muzzle rise and gaps in my grip, I think it’s pretty alright as the guns remained relatively flat. Towards the end I loosened the gun too much out of my dominant shooting hand, and reoriented my grip, elbow’s a bit fried (probably tendinitis) from either shooting every day last week, my current gym routine, or a combo of both.

I’m using a staccato xc with a 507 comp and that new harbor freight light you guys were raving about and a staccato xl with an x300, blacksteel usa gas pedal/extended slide release and no optic as I’m waiting for the release of the 507 pro max.

Please don’t hold back and let me know if any changes are needed, I’d like to finalize any tweaks before I really let this grip into my muscle memory. Next I plan to train occluded when the pro max is installed eventually.

Context

Had a non optic ready staccato xl that I sent to Vulcan machine werx to get milled for an optic, along with some other stuff I listed in a prior post. Vulcan I believe by default installed a blacked out the front sight when they smack out the old fiber optic sight to adjust the new one for the now lower optic footprint that they direct milled onto the slide. Although they did a good job, I kinda missed the old fiber optic one, so I started DIYing it. Called Vulcan, they gave me the size they used which was .250 tall and .115 wide, didn’t see that option on dawson’s site, ordered the next closest thing which was .250 tall and .110 wide.

The first attempt:

Definitely did not follow any instructions and beat the ever living hell out of it to smithereens, and it still didn’t go all the at through, and I fucked up 2 aluminum punches in the process. Swapped to a carbon steel punch thinking like a caveman, figuring i could just hit harder and force it the last bit it needed to go. Pretty much created a new smushed anger on the side and decided I needed to start over.

2nd attempt

Called Dawson, asked for advice to see where I was going wrong. Of course I didn’t expect them to replace what I fucked up, and I hung my head in shame and ordered a replacement, this time at .250 tall and .090 wide. Double checked with them to see if that was fine, they said it definitely was, and basically would make very little difference. Turns out it was no better than the first, but this time around I was prepared. I used a file and shaved off some side material, following how Vulcan shaved the original blacked out sight they sent. I used a fat triangular file, don’t recommend that btw, use a flat one, probably way easier and that’s what dawsons video demonstrates. Kept shaving until it started going in a bit. It’s smoothly, until it went in almost as smooth as the Vulcan one. Hammered it the rest of the way in, albeit I could definitely have shaved it a bit more but figured this was right enough to not need loctite. Oiled it up to prevent rust, brushed it with nylon, some of the blueing is gone but fuck it, made the thing line up as good as I could get it.

Gonna provide the original Vulcan version, followed by the 1st then second attempt photos

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