New to me Interarms Parabellum

[Tango3]

Originally Posted by ithacaartist

Yup, the coarse checkering and squarish edges make gripping an Interarms with these grips seem like holding on to a rough-cut 2" X 4". The pattern of the checkering was embossed into the skin in the web of my hand.

Jim Solomon, I, and others could round the edges and/or remove the coarse pattern and apply a finer one. Rather than mess with the original grips, I arranged for some case urethane ones and did both to them--much more comfy. Since they wind up like the eBay grips, and considering the time it took to make the changes, the $30 for those is well spent there.

Good shooting by all! All my Lugers probably shoot better than I can...

David,

I'm in agreement. I thought calling these factory grips 2x4s had to be an exaggeration...until I held the weapon. All of you nailed it! Why would they build 'em that way? Why, that was way before Sponge Bob Square Hands, for the love of Mike.

Yes, the EBay substitutes I purchased look color and checkering-wise just like the ones you made and are synthetic to boot. Taken the pistol and new grips twice to the range now and yup, very nice on the hand.

Oh, I feel as you do, too, my Parabellum is more precise than I'm accurate. In this case, I'm fine playing second fiddle! Thinking of taking them to an informal tourney this coming weekend to use.

Eric