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Tanfoglio GT27/FIE-Titan 25acp (7E)
 
Tanfoglio GT27/FIE-Titan 25acp (7E) Quantity in Basket: None
Code: FIE_7E
Price: $68.00
Shipping Weight: 0.20 pounds
 
Select SOLID color ($10). Natural Ivory is no extra cost. For pearl effects, use PEARL option instead (Ivory = default)

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Translucent/Pearl ($16 option). Do NOT select both SOLID and PEARL. (Pearl over-rides solid color choice)

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Select medallions ($14):
Select mounting method:
Use new 5-40 x 1/4 screws
Factory-style holes (use your own screws)
Are you sending a tracing?:
YES! I want to assure proper size/shape. Tombstone is responsible for fit to tracing. Tracing will show hole pattern. **************************************
NO. I will be responsible if I choose the wrong size grip. I will measure my gun and compare to the listed specs. If I order a grip that is the wrong size or shape, I agree that it is NOT returnable. *****************************************************
I already mailed a tracing BEFORE I placed this order.
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This is a set of smooth grips for the 25 ACP pocket pistol made by Tanfoglio. There were also 22 Short versions. Originals imported as finished products from Italy, before the 1986 gun control act, had steel frames and slides. Then, EXCAM (a Florida-based importer) brought in the components such as the slide but manufactured an aluminum lower component or frame. These are marked "Excam" on the barrel and re-stamped on the slide along with the Tanfoglio and GT-27 original markings. After a time, Excam ceased production and import of parts.

Finally, Firearms Import Export company, or FIE, began bringing in components from Tanfoglio and manufacturing the frame from a zinc alloy which is usually referred to as "pot metal". It has fairly low strength and low resistance to wear and galling compared to steel, but can be more easily cast at lower cost than aluminum. But these latter versions of the GT-27, known as the FIE TITAN, developed a somewhat lower quality reputation than the two previous incarnations (which, generally, were reliable guns).

In any case, these grips should work with any of the three versions regardless of the name. All were basically the same as the Tanfoglio except for the frame material and worksmanship or method of production. The gun is similar in some ways to a tip-barrel Beretta but the barrel does not tip. This is an exposed hammer pistol, with a half-cock notch, and while not quite up to the firing-pin block safety standards of modern pistols, is fairly robust as far as not going off when it isn't supposed to. The hammer has to fall to strike the firing pin, so sear tip breakage would have to occur with the hammer cocked fully for an accidental discharge to take place, or else the gun would have to be dropped on the hammer, snapping the sear so that the hammer could be driven against the firing pin hard enough to fire the cartridge...less likely than with the Browning/Colt 1903, 1908 and 1910 models using spring loaded striker held by the sear only, and all the safety machanisms being solely to prevent movement of the sear. Failure of the tip of the small sear would release the striker, no matter if the safeties were all functioning, in those designs.

In any case, here are the grip dimensions:
  • Width across the top flat area of the right grip = 1.4 inches
  • Width across the top flat area of the left grip = 1.1 inches
  • Length of front edge, right grip = 2.4 inches
  • (Left grip front edge is full of curves)
  • Width across widest part of the base parallel to flat bottom = 1.5 inches
  • Height of screw hole center from flat base = 1.2 inches
  • Width of right grip across screw hole = 1.4 inches
  • Width across widest part of left grip = 1.65 inches
  • Overall height of both grips 90-degrees to flat top = 2.4 inches
  • Widest part of right grip near top = 1.5 inches
Excam Targa 25 Please note: You can select two different mounting methods. The grip frames generally are threaded and use two separate screws with about .365 total length including a 0.106 thick head, which fits into a .278 hole diameter, with the thread passing through a 0.121 hole in the grip. This is the same basic hole found in a thick 1911 Colt grip other than the lack of a 1/4-inch hole for the mounting stud.

However, if you prefer, I can provide two 5-40 x 1/4 inch fillister head screws, with a much smaller hole for the head diameter. If you have lost the original screws or if they are damaged, the new stainless steel screws will work fine and look nice. BUT you cannot use the original screws if you elect to have the holes made for the smaller fillister head screws, without enlarging the hole for the countersunk portion (the head). Default is to use the 5-40 x 1/4 screws.

Just click the option you want, above. If you leave it as shown, the grips will have the holes sized for two new 5-40 x 1/4 fillisters and the screws will be provided. If you select the optional factory holes instead, then you won't be able to install the 2-56 kit later because those holes are too large.

These grips are prevented from moving about the screw by a pin that passes through the frame and projects a little on either side. You simply "paint" the tip of the pin with a Magic marker and press the grips against the gun, with the screw in place. A dot on the back of the grip then is transferred, and you make a small, shallow hole with a hand-turned drill bit or a little Moto-Tool bit where the dot indicates. If you get it too large or off the right position, you can fill it with a drop of epoxy glue, let it harden, and try again. If you wipe some Vasoline on the gun frame, you can even use the not-quite- hard epoxy as a mold, pressing the grip on the gun before the glue is completely firm, so the pin makes its own hole.

Another good method is to mark the cut-out in the frame with the grip temporarily mounted (use a pencil through the frame from the other side). Then remove the grip, and put a small pin or screw hole in the grip near this line, so that the pin or head of the screw will bear against the frame edge and keep the grip from turning.

FIE Titan


Dave Corbin
Stock items (medallions, screws, specials) usually ship within 10 days.
I can't promise a specific ship date, as it will vary with circumstances.
Depending on the time of year and number of orders pending, average time to finish a grip order is 30 to 90 days. That's average, not a quote. They are all individually made to your specific order.

If you can't wait, please don't order! I'm working as fast as possible.

Be SURE to read the TERMS of SALE page, so you KNOW what you are getting.



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