Webley Hurricane Replacement Grips?

[DrGunner]

Hey Gang-
I have an old Webley hurricane .177, and unfortunately the grip on one side cracked and fell apart. I have found lots of replacements in England, and a few in the US but they want $50 for Bakelite grips. Anyone know of a domestic source that’s reasonable on price? Also, in my searching, I found that Beeman made finger groove Rosewood grips for the Tempest and Hurricane. I would gladly spend $50 and would surely love to get my hands on a set of those if anyone knows where I can look?

Any information you can provide will be greatly appreciated-

DrGunner

[Rick67]

You can order from this guys, if you’re wanting the OEM pair, with no problem:

https://www.airgunspares.com/t62webleypistolgrips.html

They even ship silencers to the US—an acquaintance of mine got a Weihrauch for his HW97

Wish they have a 1/2 UNF Weihrauch; they’re about L70, light and very quiet I own 2 of them in the Philippines.

They look dull though, so I had a machinist (too many of them over there and very cheap) fashion me some concave cups. I think I paid $2 to $3 for the pair back then.

Sorry for the OT, Doc 😂

[MDriskill]

Not an answer, but for the record here are the finger-groove and match grips that Beeman sold for these back in the day. They are not rosewood, but another sort of colorful tropical wood, likely from the Philippines IIRC.

[Rick67]

Not an answer, but for the record here are the finger-groove and match grips that Beeman sold for these back in the day. They are not rosewood, but another sort of colorful tropical wood, likely from the Philippines IIRC.

There was a guy a long time ago who sold grips for the Crosman platform using lumber from the Philippines.

I think he was a Fil-Am based here in the US.

He had Kamagong, a very hard wood that is used as fighting sticks, amongst others.

This is what Kamagong looks like (not mine), but some of them have interesting patterns.

[DrGunner]

I appreciate the responses. I was able to find two sources in the UK, one nice gent named Andy who makes them to order out of several hardwoods, but at 60 pounds British plus shipping which would come out to around $88 US, I can’t justify spending that much on my beat up old Hurricane. I think I’m going to have to order some of the OEM Bakelite grips and be happy with them, unless I get a response from my WTB listing here.

DrG

[MDriskill]

The want ad is a good start. Here's a list of other parts dealers you can try - be patient, these things have a way of showing up!

+ JG Airguns (Chicago)
http://www.jgairguns.biz

+ John Knibbs / Gunspares (UK)
https://www.airgunspares.com/airgun-spares

+ Chambers (UK)
https://twchambers.co.uk

+ Protek (UK)
http://www.proteksupplies.co.uk/index.html

+ Gunstar (UK)
https://www.gunstar.co.uk

+ Waffen Center Gotha (Germany)
https://www.waffencenter-gotha.de

+ Sportwaffen Schneider (Germany)
https://www.versandhaus-schneider.de

[DrGunner]

THANKS!!! I’ll get working on that list on Monday.

DrG