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What I did was clean the grip really thoroughly and degrease with alcohol. Then I masked off all the stuff I didn't want texture on. I used Bob Smith 30 minute epoxy, and brushed it on with a sponge brush. Then just spoon on the silicon carbide and make sure you don't leave any bald spots. Make sure to take off the masking tape before the epoxy fully sets or it'll be a pain in the ass later. Alma Cole has a YouTube video on this that is more detailed. If I were to do it again I'd make sure to rough up the smooth surfaces on the grip with sandpaper first, because over time I've had a couple small (0.25"x0.25") spots flake off, but the texture still does its job so I'm not going to redo it. I didn't bother reducing the grip width or anything to account for the extra thickness because the Bob Smith epoxy goes on fairly thin anyways and I didn't want to take off too much of the fancy tungsten infused polymer.
https://youtu.be/DL3ExFQNHkM
Last edited by Eyesquared; 05-07-2021 at 12:20 PM.
I forgot I never posted any update on the reliability of the gun. I've been shooting the X5 Legion since November 2019 and thus far I have about 11k rounds through it. Since I made that other post about my cleaning regimen, I totally fell off of it. I don't think I've even cleaned my gun in the last 3k or so rounds. I have only 6 malfunctions total, although that number isn't exactly fair as many of them were related to my own questionable reloading. 1st malfunction was a failure to go into battery, due to a weakened recoil spring (this was at 7k rounds on the original 12lb spring). I later had 2 light strikes with my reloads, which I had culled from my match ammo to use for practice because the primers looked a little high. I had two more failures to go into battery due to not lubing the gun for about a thousand rounds and shooting a 2 day class. I then had 1 failure to chamber with ammo that was marginal in my case gauge but I put in the practice bin anyways. If you remove the malfunctions I caused with my ammo, that's a MRBS of 3.6k. The gun would have been even more reliable if I actually took care of it but it runs well enough that I get lazy.
Anyone have any recommendations on triggers?
Is it gray guns over everything else?
The apex seems tempting. I don’t care about the weight as much as wanting to decrease the reset
"Shooting is 90% mental. The rest is in your head." -Nils