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Offline Newt

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Carbon Fiber Grips
« on: November 20, 2008, 12:28:05 PM »
Does anyone know how many blue & black carbon fiber grips went out the door at Rohrbaugh?
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Offline PsychoSword

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Re: Carbon Fiber Grips
« Reply #1 on: December 12, 2008, 07:14:19 AM »
Sorry, can't give you a number. All I know is not nearly enough, all guns should be wearing them. But with that worldwide carbon fiber shortage of the past three years..  ::)

They are not able to supply them anymore.. Haha yea..

Offline DChandlerKY

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Re: Carbon Fiber Grips
« Reply #2 on: December 15, 2008, 12:23:37 AM »
This means that an R9 or R9S will not ship with the CF grips?  New to the forums - still looking around to familiarize myself.

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Re: Carbon Fiber Grips
« Reply #3 on: December 15, 2008, 12:25:10 PM »
I'm a newbie here.  I just started looking at this gun a couple months ago, then finally saw one at a gun show and was surprised that it didn't have the carbon fiber grips I'd seen in the pictures.  Personally I don't think the new G10 grips look all that great, but I never saw CF in person.  

I'm not sure why the factory web site still shows pictures of the CF, but someone with more experience can probably tell us.

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Re: Carbon Fiber Grips
« Reply #4 on: December 15, 2008, 12:58:44 PM »
Carbon fiber grips were discontinued due to price increases, shortages which increased lead times and some shipped to them not in specs.    The web site does show both carbon fiber, just not updated, and G10 grips. There may be some out there that could be sold by end users, ask in the for sale area.  Tom
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Offline jetman

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Re: Carbon Fiber Grips
« Reply #5 on: December 29, 2008, 08:21:06 PM »
I looked long and HARD until I found a set here for sale in the Classified Section. They weren't cheap but well worth it to me. They really ALL should come with CF. Here are a couple pics of mine with the blue grips.

« Last Edit: December 29, 2008, 08:22:54 PM by jetman »

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Re: Carbon Fiber Grips
« Reply #6 on: December 29, 2008, 08:27:50 PM »
That looks beautiful, thanks for posting the pictures.  I agree with you, for the price of this gun, it needs to have CF or something else far better-looking than the G10 grips.