Webley Tempest Target Grip

[nishijin]

Interesting...who was the maker ot of interest?

No idea, it had a little 'H' stamped on the base, and inside was a H or K printed in a circle like so. I thought there was another mark as well, but I must have been mistaken.




Those proper Beeman grips are beautiful. A very different aesthetic to my butchered and battered set. I guess they suit a better condition pistol. Mine is so well-used that it needs sympathetically bruised grips.

[Troubledshooter]

This is one side of the Beeman grips fitted to a Tempest, no longer in my collection:

[nishijin]

This is one side of the Beeman grips fitted to a Tempest, no longer in my collection:

Very nice.


I wonder whether it would be possible to make/modify a rear sight blade for the Tempest to work as a peep-sight, or something.

[Josie & John]

Those are nice! Very good-looking too I must say.

A couple of years ago I bumped into a set of the Tempicane target grips that Beeman sold here in the US. A lesser level of quality - made of some sort of tropical wonder wood, no texturing, brass fittings - but fit me well and look pretty decent.

This particular Hurricane is a good shooter with a tuned trigger, so they are not entirely inappropriate

I'm afraid my first reaction to seeing the pics at the start of this thread was why??? Sorry Nishijin but they just don't do it for me.

However, I do like Mike's grips even though the traditionalist within me says I shouldn't.

John

[nishijin]

I'm afraid my first reaction to seeing the pics at the start of this thread was why??? Sorry Nishijin but they just don't do it for me.

However, I do like Mike's grips even though the traditionalist within me says I shouldn't.

John

John, your first reaction of "why???" should have been answered already, by the post itself. Something daft, a daft idea, nothing lost by trying.

[harry mac]

I fitted a pair of Airgunner177's target style grips to my .22 Tempest. I can do good work with it out to 20 yards, but it requires consistency and concentration.
If it works, here's some cards I shot at 10m.
(looks like it didn't work). How do I put pics on?

[Garvin]

No idea, it had a little 'H' stamped on the base, and inside was a H or K printed in a circle like so. I thought there was another mark as well, but I must have been mistaken.




Those proper Beeman grips are beautiful. A very different aesthetic to my butchered and battered set.
I guess they suit a better condition pistol. Mine is so well-used that it needs sympathetically bruised grips.

The inside does look like Feinwerkbau, maybe 80 or 90, and the H is for large size I think (hoch = tall).

[nishijin]

The inside does look like Feinwerkbau, maybe 80 or 90, and the H is for large size I think (hoch = tall).

Thanks Garvin, you're correct. Grateful for the info.

Yep, looking online, FWB80's share what the grip looked like before modifying. Telltale angled crosshatching at the base of the RH grip too.

Mine is a well-used grip. It came covered in wood putty to suit someone's hand, covering all the painstaking stippling that had been done.

I'd love a FWB, but I do enjoy how many people have laughed seeing this little plinker all tarted up.

[harvey_s]

The inside does look like Feinwerkbau, maybe 80 or 90, and the H is for large size I think (hoch = tall).

That's a good spot ... Nice to see a bit of German woodworking now adorning a quality British pistol

[nishijin]

That's a good spot ... Nice to see a bit of German woodworking now adorning a quality British pistol

Don't deny it, you'd all want a go if you saw it at the range.