Modified C7/C8 pistol grips

[Rule 303]

Apparently the Canadian Armed Forces retrofitted all their C7s and C8s with a green pistol grip which features a captive design to hold securely a plastic sleeve containing 2 x AA batteries.(Pretty nifty idea for an Eotech).A quick release design feature allows for easy access to the sleeve w/batteries.

Have any of these hit the civilian market yet? If so, what supplier?

 

[can14]

The Americans have been making them for some time

 

[Leg]

It's an OTIS grip kit without the cleaning kit. I'm not sure if they sell it by itself.

Hard to remember but I think we've been using them for over 10 yrs. Dirt simple method to carry spare batteries.

 

[Canadian Sig]

Handy...Unless your issued optic takes CR123 batteries. Lol

 

[Tat2dcoyote]

Apparently the Canadian Armed Forces retrofitted all their C7s and C8s with a green pistol grip which features a captive design to hold securely a plastic sleeve containing 2 x AA batteries.(Pretty nifty idea for an Eotech).A quick release design feature allows for easy access to the sleeve w/batteries.

Have any of these hit the civilian market yet? If so, what supplier?

I don't know if Diemaco/Colt Canada make their own pistol grips or not but all the furniture on the C7A2 and C8A3 is green. The folding foregrips that we were issued were from Cadex and held 2 CR123s

 

[Rebel Rouser]

I have some kicking around.

 

[soldner61]

The British L119a SFW have a grip with battery compartment which came from Diemaco/CC

 

[fenceline]

The British L119a SFW have a grip with battery compartment which came from Diemaco/CC

It is an option from CC.

 

[Dsiwy]

We've had them for over a decade, google otis grip kit.

 

[Rebel Rouser]

The British L119a SFW have a grip with battery compartment which came from Diemaco/CC

That's the Lone Star grip. I have a few of those too.

 

[skoal]

That's the Lone Star grip. I have a few of those too.

What dont you have? Have a rear grip from a c9 kicking around?

 

[Rule 303]

We've had them for over a decade, google otis grip kit.

I did, and all the grip kits contain the plastic sleeve intended for storing the Otis cleaning items.

None of the images show batteries inserted into the grip kit sleeve and none show a green pistol grip.

 

[Leg]

Regardless that's what it is. It doesn't come with a grip. You install it in the grip you have.

The gun plumbers weren't too pleased at having to install hundreds of these things when they first came in the system.

 

[cooleyc]

Cleaning kits? Batteries? Y'all doing ARs wrong

Tactisnacks

 

[Dsiwy]

I did, and all the grip kits contain the plastic sleeve intended for storing the Otis cleaning items.

None of the images show batteries inserted into the grip kit sleeve and none show a green pistol grip.

x2 AA batteries fit in it too, it's the exact same one the CF uses.

 

[Rebel Rouser]

Otis Kit Insert

Lonestar Grip

The insert is the same for the CF and the cleaning kit.

 

[Skeletor68]

I think it will also hold 3x 5.56mm rounds

 

[Leg]

That's the Lone Star grip. I have a few of those too.

WTF? They still make those? I thought that was an 80s thing.

 

[lerch641]

WTF? They still make those? I thought that was an 80s thing.

No longer made, atleast by the long-defunct Lone Star. You can still find surplus of them being sold by paintball stores (as I did).