Original Auto Mag Pistol 180
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Topic: Original Auto Mag Pistol 180
Posted By: Trigger
Subject: Original Auto Mag Pistol 180
Date Posted: 17 Dec 2025 at 6:27pm
| I’m thinking about doing custom, Mamouth Ivory grips for the Auto Mag Pistol. And I was wondering if there was any interest Within the AutoMag community for something like this? I would like to get the community response to this. |
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Posted By: BEEMER1
Date Posted: 17 Dec 2025 at 7:14pm
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If the pistol is a shooter, the grips would probably break under recoil. Otherwise, they would look great. Jurras used ivory micarta for some of his custom guns. I really like the look. Here is a Jurras Alaskan and a Backpacker.  |
Posted By: Trigger
Date Posted: 17 Dec 2025 at 9:15pm
| Yeah, I’m not sure whether they would break or not. I do know that they put them on a lot of different types of firearms revolvers and 1911s and also for knife scales which tend to be much thinner. I would think they would do fairly fine. I don’t see any breakages with the wood, which seems to do fine, I don’t know if that be much different? |
Posted By: sirsaka
Date Posted: 17 Dec 2025 at 10:04pm
| Personally I think it's a great idea! I've seen pictures of mouth tusks and molers and they're incredible! Do you have any pics? |
Posted By: BEEMER1
Date Posted: 17 Dec 2025 at 10:28pm
Wooden grips have been a problem for Auto Mags since the start of production. I really don't know how the new ones are holding up. Auto Mags have always been harder on grip panels than most other pistol types. Jurras went to micarta grips as opposed to his laminated ones because of all the breakage. Alot of the pistols that have the Mamouth Tusk and Tooth grips are not shot much either. Knife stocks do not have to withstand much "force".
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Trigger wrote:Posted By: Dances with AutoMags
Date Posted: 17 Dec 2025 at 11:31pm
Beautiful pistols Bob.  Below, a Condor and a Backpacker.   ------------- An armed society is a polite society. |
Posted By: Dances with AutoMags
Date Posted: 18 Dec 2025 at 12:25am
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I met a guy at the old Glendale, CA gun show who had Mamouth Tusk grips and pieces to carve your grips from it. He had one set of grips made from "blue" Mamouth Tusk. I asked him about this and he said he bought the Mamouth Tusk material while he was visiting Siberia on vacation. The seller said he and his friends had found an old frozen watering hole. They waited until it thawed and found several Mamouth skelitons and tusks under water. The blue tusks were colored by the type of colored mudd they were in for all these years. The material was beautiful and I hope the story was true. Just saying.......Bruce ------------- An armed society is a polite society. |
Posted By: Trigger
Date Posted: 18 Dec 2025 at 3:52pm
| The colors on those test range all over the place. Blues purples reds. It’s amazing what you get out of them. That’s why I’m thinking about making them. I suppose you don’t necessarily have to shoot it with those grips on. you only put those grips on when you’re not shooting it. if I get enough of a response, I will definitely shoot mine with the grips on and see how they hold up |
Posted By: Trigger
Date Posted: 18 Dec 2025 at 3:57pm
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Posted By: Trigger
Date Posted: 18 Dec 2025 at 3:57pm
| This is one pic |
Posted By: Dances with AutoMags
Date Posted: 19 Dec 2025 at 5:29pm
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Hey trigger, Bruce Stark here. I sent you a private message. Cheers.....Bruce  I am told, it is spelled: MAMMOTH Just sayin'. ------------- An armed society is a polite society. |
Posted By: OneWay
Date Posted: 26 Dec 2025 at 11:31pm
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To the question of recoil and grip brittleness: Waay back in the 60's I had a new and beautiful Colts Python. Casting resin had recently emerged and I had used it in various craft projects with a lot of success. I got a wild-hair that a black-pearlescent grip would look magnificent on it. No time or effort was spared and the new combat grips were styled and fitted to absolute perfection. Perceived stress points were addressed. Many hours later the stunning grips on the beautiful Python-blue weapon were exactly what I had hoped for.. THEY EXCEEDED MY IMAGINATION! About the second time I fired it, they broke. Lesson I learned about 'brittle' media for pistol grips; "Should have only used the beautiful grips for show, and not go!"  ------------- The Older I Get The More "Keep It Simple Stupid" Means To Me "DENNY CRANE!" |