1911 grip safety disabling plug

Bobby Ironsights

Bobby Ironsights

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Hi, I had a link to someone who sells inserts that flush and disable the grip safety, but I lost it between looking at 1911's and actually buying one.

I know you can pin it, and a great many people do, but I remember liking the look of the "plug".
 
I like the look of it too, but...
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There are numerous ways to disable a grip safety, the easiest (although not reversible other than buying a new GS) is to shorten the trigger blocking arm.

As far as easily reversible ways, you can get a thin piece of rubber, fold it in half and sandwich it between the MSH and Grip Safety.

The other way is to Drill 2 corresponding holes in the the MSH and Grip safety and and then set in a roll pin as you assemble it.

I used the rubber method for years with no issues and find that it's a good way to use up worn shock buffs as well :)

of course going with an aftermarket GS with a Bump on the lower portion may be the best way to deal with it
 
Bobby Ironsights said:
700 american dollars!

soooooo... I guess I should look for an online tutorial on how to pin my safety.
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You don't have to pin your grip safety.

The spring can be tuned to achieve the very same end, while also still preserving it's function. A better idea (than doing it yourself) is to have Gunnar attend to it.
http://www.armco-guns.com/labour.htm
 
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If that's what you want the pin is probably your best bet.
Tape or a rubberband or a hogue handall will do it too....
 
couldn't you get some sort of strap and use it to hold the grip safety in the whole time? you don't have to wrap it all the way around, just have it wrap around the back, and put it under the grips so that the grips hold it taught and in place. Of course i don't really know how the safety works on the 1911, so i'm just throwing out ideas that probably won't work.
 
If a loaded and cocked pistol was dropped, I would feel better about the safey being there. Why do you want to disable it?

If I was going to disable mine, I woul clean the edges with some alcohol (degrease) flow some clear silicon into the cracks on each side, and then use an eleastic to hold it down while the silicon dried. This would do no damage and could be reversed, later.
 
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I don't know why anyone would want to disable the grip safety...if it works.
If it doesn't work it's easy to fix - at least as easy as disabling it would be.

Whatever...it's your pistol and it's your leg.

Some Texas Rangers have used rawhide lacing. I'm not sure whether they walked with a limp...
 
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small roll of masking tape between the top of the safety and the rest of the grip works fine. Lasted for many thousands of rounds when I was shooting IPSC many years ago.
 
NAA said:
+1

There's nothing wrong with J.M. Browning's original design.... ;) :wave:
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I agree, Browning was against the grip safety, but I read the army ordanance board made him incorporate it, and the lanyard ring. Someone said something about the calvalry being really influential, and they had concerns about reloading while galloping?

Anyway. I don't have to worry about that, or about shooting myself in the leg.

I'm a formal target shooter, not IPSC or anything. We shoot one shot at a time, very, very slowly, trying to control the micro-millimeter muscle wiggle. I know taking two or more minutes for every single shot might sound boring as spit for you action shooters, but hey, it works for us.

None of the olympic style guns I've used like my Tau-7 or others like my Dan Wesson revolver, or my target rifles ...etc...etc..etc.. have any sort of mechanical safety. When a gun does come with a safety the competitor almost always immediately disables them.

It's hard to explain to an action shooter I guess, but in slow fire for score, you're trying to get dead calm, and trying to make a trigger break, pushing harder, harder, harder, in the zone......... only to discover your shot won't release because you accidentally snapped on a manual safety....AAAAAGGGGGHHHHH!!!!!

It screws with your whole cycle, and can upset your whole day, usually 60 shots for men, 40 for women.
 
Hmm. Something's not right. Thousands of bullseye shooters in the US (and some in Canada, myself included) shoot 1911s without pinning the grip safety. In fact, in CMP it's against the rules and I think it probably is in NRA as well. Messing with the safety features of the gun is a no-no.

I would suggest that either there's something mechanically wrong with your grip safety or perhaps you're not holding the gun high enough? IPSC shooters often pin the grip safety for rapid two-handed shooting, but in bullseye it is just not done.
 
GRANDERITE it does not matter if the grip safety is pinned or not when you drop a cocked and loaded 1911. The grip safety only prevents the trigger from bring pulled back and does nothing to disable the sear and trigger. That is what the safety is for. Mr Browning did not have the grip safety in his design, the US Calvary had him put the grip safety on the gun.
 
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