My wife has a gen 4 G26. Whenever she shoots it she has to wear a shooting glove because the grip texture is pretty sharp and digs into her hand. The gen 4 G35 we have also has the same problem. I have felt other gen 4's and most don't have that issue, but for some reason, these do. Being a .40 caliber, the G35 actually becomes one with your hand since it's a little bit more snappy in the recoil department. It almost requires another person to help get the firearm removed safely from your palm. Not really, but you get the idea. We really like both guns a lot, and I decided to try out some Talon Grips to see if it would help out.
I've seen Hickok45's reviews a bunch of times, and he always has the Talon Grips on the guns that he owns. I've also heard of others that use them, so I thought I would order a couple and see how they work out.
I ordered them on Monday, and they showed up in the mail today. :dancing: We'll call that "lickitty split shipping". They are $16.99 each with free shipping. If you order more than one, they will take $1 off of each set, so both of them cost a total of $33.98.
Applying them is pretty easy. There are videos online, and they also send instructions along with the grips. Inside the envelop comes the grips, instructions and an alcohol wipe. The instructions says that they recommend using more than just the one wipe, so I whipped out a bunch that I have had sitting around since Abraham Lincoln was a mere lad. Give or take a few years.
The grips we bought are made for gen 2-4 Glocks, but the video I watched said that for the gen 4's you need to cut out a little bit of the grip so that they won't interfere with the magazine release on either side of the grip. They also make grips for a plethora of other firearms. It also notes that on the instruction sheet. So I test fit them before removing the backing paper to see where I needed to cut them. I just used a pair of scissors, and it was done pretty quickly. I test fit them a few times to make sure that I had taken enough off. After I used the alcohol wipes, I took some of the backing paper off and started to apply it on the G26, on the left side. Working it around without putting too much pressure on it so that it could be adjusted if needed. It was a nice bonus that when I put them on the G35, I only needed a small part cut off of the left side. The right side didn't interfere at all with the mag release.
When I was all done putting them on and was happy with the install, I turned on the heat gun, as instructed, and heated up the grips slightly so that the glue would adhere better. Once heated, you just massage the grip so that it conforms to the gun. You do this a few times, and make sure everything is down nice and tight, including all of the edges.
They are very thin, and don't add a whole lot of girth to the grip. So that's nice.
The gun feels SO much better. Both the G26 and G35 feel great. The rubber has a slight tacky feeling. Not super tacky as to make it stick to things, but close to what Hogue grips feel like.
Also, there are two different types of grips they have. One is a granulate ( fine sandpaper) type, and the other is a rubber type. I snagged the rubber version. With the granulate grips, there are black and pink, but the rubber there is only black. My wife would have preferred the pink, but didn't want the sandpaper feel.
We haven't had a chance to shoot with them yet, but so far I am liking them quite a bit. I believe they will be much better than the standard pokey grips. There is a little part on the back strap of the G26 on the bottom that isn't covered, so it's still pokey right there, but the rest of the grip has been improved substantially.
