Cool AK (Alaska) grips

glenncal1 · #1 03-01-2011, 04:08 PM

Saw these on gunbroker and liked them and think they went reasonable. I dont really have a need but I think these are cool:

Maximumbob54 · #2 03-01-2011, 04:10 PM

Make it pretty item or skull smasher?

Ha ha, you got me... My first thought was why is someone sharing an AK grip on this forum...? Then I got it... Derrr... Had to see the pictures before it clicked. Just had to confess.

glenncal1 · #3 03-01-2011, 04:25 PM

I didn't even think about the AK-47 connection.

truckemup97 · #4 03-01-2011, 05:11 PM

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Originally Posted by Maximumbob54

Make it pretty item or skull smasher?

I was thinking skull smasher. They will keep you from getting chips in the bottom of those fine stocks, too.

Very nice.

Bamacountryboy · #5 03-01-2011, 06:47 PM

Now you just need the other 49 states

-db- · #6 03-01-2011, 07:19 PM

Nice find. Most of the similar butt plates (have no idea what the correct term for them may be) I've seen are attached to the stocks via screws from the bottom. I'm curious- how is that one attached?

truckemup97 · #7 03-01-2011, 07:27 PM

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Originally Posted by Bamacountryboy

Now you just need the other 49 states

If he does that, does he have to get the matching spoons and shot glasses?

glenncal1 · #8 03-02-2011, 11:54 AM

I would have to get 49 more N Frames to go with them, hey..........

jlrhiner · #9 03-02-2011, 01:50 PM

WHen I was a kid, Metro St. Louis Police used to have brass end caps on their smithies. (of course, most still used flap holsters) I remember seeing one on a senior copper that had a medallion inlaid in it, but I never found out what it was.

george minze · #10 03-03-2011, 10:43 AM

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Originally Posted by jlrhiner

WHen I was a kid, Metro St. Louis Police used to have brass end caps on their smithies. (of course, most still used flap holsters) I remember seeing one on a senior copper that had a medallion inlaid in it, but I never found out what it was.

Howdy Jim:
In the 60's those brass end caps were very popular, you could get them for any revolver you were authorized to carry. I don't know who was making them I got mine for a Python from Komar a third district copper who was a legend in the third..I got stuck with making quite a few spring attachments for those suicide flap holsters, also popular in those days. You had to mold the holster and then sew in a flexible steel spring into flap. When gun was needed you just unsnapped and flap then it flipped up and stayed open....Those darn holsters were somebody's idea of a joke but the only deviation was carrying strong side or cross-draw. Some used the 3" extension that allowed the holster to be worn lower from the belt. Not much of a improvement as it made the holster even harder to use. The better made holsters were made by Buckheimer-Clark but hard to get. The issue then was Buear Bros...They were not as well made as the earlier Buckheimers. At one time the converted flaps and the brass plates were common, as was the un-authorized use of Super-Val ammo, or carrying a back=up snub.....But Boys will be Boys....Just had to know when the Sho-Fly's were going to be at inspection, and we always knew, I never could figure out how or who but somebody always knew. Those were wild days...Great place to be a young cop...Plenty of adrenalin..
BTW I heard the caps were made by a machine shop located in the lower Third,east of the 3rd street highway. Back then Python's Diamondbacks, and Model 19 Smiths were the weapon of choice, if you could get the money together to purchase one..The model 10 was issued, then the model 10 heavy barrel was later issued.....Of course in the 60's guns didn't cost near as much as they do now......Even Python's were under 400 with police discount.