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When I was in college circa 1984, my dad and my godfather sold Altamont grips at the local gun shows (about 6 different shows in Northern Illinois). A customer custom ordered a pair of smooth ebony grips with genuine ivory inlays scrimshawed with a bald eagle on both side of the grips. The customer put down a deposit but never picked up the grips. His phone was disconnected and a year went by with no contact.
My dad and godfather kept bringing the grips to the gun shows in hope that the guy would show up, but he never did. I thought the grips were gorgeous, but I was only 19 at the time and didn't even own a handgun. My wholesale cost, less the customer's deposit meant the grips only cost me $60. I bought them. I had them on my dorm room bulletin board with a push pin through each top grip screw hole.
Several years later, my dad bought me a Colt Combat Elite .45 pistol. I installed the custom grips and had Ed Brown sights and beavertail grip safety installed.
Just two years ago I bought a Dan Wesson CBob and loved the way the bobtailed mainspring felt, concealed, and shot. I had my Combat Commander bobtailed too. I put a set of bobtailed Ed Brown grips on the gun.
But it never quite seemed the same without those neat bald eagle grips.
I changed that this morning!
-Steve
My dad and godfather kept bringing the grips to the gun shows in hope that the guy would show up, but he never did. I thought the grips were gorgeous, but I was only 19 at the time and didn't even own a handgun. My wholesale cost, less the customer's deposit meant the grips only cost me $60. I bought them. I had them on my dorm room bulletin board with a push pin through each top grip screw hole.
Several years later, my dad bought me a Colt Combat Elite .45 pistol. I installed the custom grips and had Ed Brown sights and beavertail grip safety installed.
Just two years ago I bought a Dan Wesson CBob and loved the way the bobtailed mainspring felt, concealed, and shot. I had my Combat Commander bobtailed too. I put a set of bobtailed Ed Brown grips on the gun.
But it never quite seemed the same without those neat bald eagle grips.
I changed that this morning!
-Steve
