Bowlers Pistol Grips

[Modski66]

Does anyone know anything about Bowlers pistol grips? I have ended up with three of them, looks like they might have all been for the same type of pistol, but whether it was an air pistol or something else I have no clue.

Are they worth anything more than firewood?

[mikec4]

Used to have a Bowler grip on my High Standard Citation .22LR standard pistol.

Good quality and fit to frame ( in two halves if I recall ) I needed to play around with plastic wood and filler to get the fit I needed for R/H left eye dominance.

The factory grip on my Walther GSP needed no mods for standard pistol or rapid fire disciplines.

All the Rink grips I have had for Morini, Benelli and Pardini air pistols with 7 degree offset required minimal fettling as Thomas Rink uses a neat one handed system for palm shelf height and angle adjustment.

Just my opinion based on experience over 40+ years of shooting.

The single hole fixing through the grip is possibly suited to air pistol - someone may know more about this; Bowlers closed down some 15 years ago I understand.

ATB

Mike.

[nickm marshall]

Found this picture on another forum.
Myself and a couple of mates regularly visited his shop on a Saturday.

[thirdwheel]

Goodness, I used to live about 400yds from the shop in New Cross, lots of time spent looking in the window and even bought my El Gamo target pistol from him, the FWB65 was way out of my league at that time. The shop closed many many years ago - who would think there was a fire arms shop in the New cross road. My mum still lives there and it is now like the wild west!

[majex45]

I have several Bowler grips on my S7(3) pistols. Leslie Bowler closed the shop about 1996 I think and moved to Norfolk or thereabouts. Now gone I believe.
The grips you have all look to be for the same type of pistol two appear to me for the same owner and the other a different owner. It is difficult to tell without seeing the depth of hole. Definately not a Britarms or S&W revolver.
There is no hole for a magazine so they could be for a Walther GSP or air pistol.

[Discocom]

Grips were actually hand made at Bowlers by John Cook who was a team GB rapid fire pistol shooter.

Visited the shop many times in the late 70’s early 80’s.

[robthedog]

Recently(last week!)picked up a couple of Walther CPM1 pistols, both came with Walther factory grips but also a spare set of Bowler l/h grips, i'm left handed, so this was a bonus, however the fit isn't anywhere near matching the factory one's, & took a bit of work to make them fit, carried by Barry who had the other pistol