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February 29, 2020
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Just acquired a 10-inch m.722 stainless 22 lr DW, with IHMSA ram logo on both sides of the shroud (actually just identical gun to the one that can be seen in pictures posted by IHMSA80x80 =Dean...now gone?). Problems arose when I changed the wooden silhouette grip to Hogue rubber: when I try to tighten the grip, the gun will not hold hammer back on cocked position. What to do? To get the gun function properly the grip must be so loose that when I grab it with my hand in normal shooting position, there comes a large gap between the grip and the back part of the grip frame and I can feel the gun waving loosely downwards, if you understand what I mean...If I make the grip fit snug by tightening the grip screw, the hammer won`t stay cocked. No issues with the wood grip. Is it straightforward impossible to use the rubber grip or what???
February 21, 2011
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The new grip screw is long enough to contact the bottom of the hammer spring strut blocking it.
Either, shorten the screw or put small washers inside the hole for the screw under the head to back it off enough.
Matthew Quigley on handguns:
“I said I never had much use for one. Never said
I didn't know how to use it.”
Dans Club
December 7, 2020
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Replacement Hex screws @ Ace Hardware, but only in 1/4" increments. <$1 each If you need in between 1/8" increments, onling or special order.
Dans Club
December 5, 2008
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Shorter grip screw needed.
February 29, 2020
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Thanks for the responses. I guess the Large frame grip screw won´t fit? As someone else has already written earlier, spare parts for DW´s are almost impossible to find here in Scandinavia...and hex-head screws with inch-based threads too...so if I need shorter grip screw, the only way to get it is to have it custom made somewhere...So yesterday I put the wooden grip back and will be using it until I can somehow get the shorter screw.
February 21, 2011
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If you have a screw for each grip why not just shorten the Hogue one a little at a time?
Or put one or two small washers in the bottom?
Matthew Quigley on handguns:
“I said I never had much use for one. Never said
I didn't know how to use it.”
February 29, 2020
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Yeah, forgot to mention that I have only one grip screw - the Hogue came to me without it...so I used the wood grip screw which seems to be too long. Washers might be the solution, though I do not know how thick they have to be, so it´s a matter of "trying and error". Nevertheless, it seems to me that the gun shoots better with wood grip, at 25 yards I put 4 of five shots into one ragged hole, and the "flyer" made the group about 3/4". At fifty yards 5-shot group was about 1,75", better than I could do when the Hogue was installed...So I think I´ll be using the wood grip at least some time.
February 21, 2011
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Stack as many as you need.
The ones I found were 0.040" (1.016mm) thick.If you can't find some let me know & I'll mail several to you. (I have lots of spares)
Matthew Quigley on handguns:
“I said I never had much use for one. Never said
I didn't know how to use it.”
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