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Old 08-02-2017, 11:35 AM
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Originally Posted by RobertJ. View Post
Interesting!

Especially since I recently bought buffalo bone grips for my 1911 (sorry, no photos yet) and they were supplied with four tiny rubber washers! They weren't needed, so I tucked them away.
And here I was thinking I was ahead of the curve........

The reason they supplied them is not because the grips are soft as the wood ones are, but because the bone is brittle and might crack if the screws are over tightened or shot with heavy loads ( the O-Rigs cushion the transfer of shock) . The reason I needed them is because the wood on my original grips has compressed over 43 years and the screws hit the studs BEFORE they contact the wood - so basically they slosh around on my 1911's.

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