ideas on slippery grip fixes?

[firsted]

Hey, folks, I've got a Vermilion Rivers bow that I love but that has a slippery grip, feels like it has a tendency to slip around on drawback.  I've thought about using some camo tape or maybe a leather grip or something.  Heck, I'd use bat rosin if it wouldn't hurt anything - worked for me in baseball.  Or maybe spraying on some kind of adhesive and just letting it dry just for texture.  But before I start experimenting I thought I'd see what others have done in this situation.  I figure it's an easy fix but I'd rather measure twice & cut once.
Thanks,
Eddie

[Arwin]

A Sur-grip will help but I read a post where a guy used a bicycle tube cut to length and achieved the same thing. It works!! For the price of a Sur-grip you can buy a bike tube and get quite a few grips out of it.  

[limbow]

Bow string wax!

[Bjorn]

I have done the Mountain bike inner tube and it works perfectly like Arwin suggested, leather grip works, and Minwax Satin sprayed from 18-24" back does the trick too. The bowstring wax sounds like a great solution.

[firsted]

Hey, thanks you guys.  I knew I was making too much of this!

[ron w]

Like the the guys above said....sure-grip or rubber from a bike tube, works great!!!

[Hooked]

Haven't tried the bike tube trick, but use a sure-grip and it works great!  The only thing I don't like is it covers up some perty wood.

[Ragnarok Forge]

Posi Grip.  I like it better than the sure grip.  It is textured.

[Txnrog]

One other thing that might be worth trying is just wearing a glove on your bow hand - may help you and you won't have to put anything on the bow - any golf, shooting, driving type glove with a rough leather palm should work.

[cbCrow]

I use baseball bat wrap. When it wears out 6-7 months it is easily replaced and does not harm the bow in any way. The stuff is reasonably priced also.  

[graysquirrel]

sure grip or the baseball wrap, sure grip 11 bucks, baseball wrap 4 bucks.  Both work well

[Joshua Lee]

Strips of black skateboard tape work great and don't cover up as much of the perty wood. Cheap and easy to replace, although haven't had to yet.

[Bowhuntah]

This stuff is great. If you wrap it just right you can make finger grooves.  http://www.3riversarchery.com/Bow+Accessories+Grips+%26+Material++Leather+Grip+Wraps_c46_s212_p0_i6103X_product.html

[Hoyt]

I sewed on a piece of leather scrap to my Quinn Stallion.

[KentuckyTJ]

Have you thought about sending it off and having the grip checkered?

[WOUNDED EAGLE]

Go to a sporting goods store where the tenis rackets are and get...rap around replacement grips for t.rackets theres a few dif. kindes they work great, I use them on my bows.

[Robertfishes]

I use the rubber tennis grip wraps on some of my bows. I also have used the leather bow saddle grip sold by 3 Rivers, both work well for me the bow saddle looks better.. I am wanting to stipple some of the grips on my homemade bows and get rid of the rubber and leather..

[OkKeith]

Hey Eddie,

I have adhesive lether saddles on almost all of my bows. I got them from 3 Rivers. They are inexpensive and look really good on the bow. I think they give the right amount of grip without being bulky.

I can get you some pictures of them on my bows if you like.

OkKeith

[bob@helleknife.com]

Vet-Wrap works great!  No glue/adhesive to deal with.  Cheap and effective.

Bob

[L. E. Carroll]

I have in the past, been a big fan of leather "Bow Saddles".  However, I recently tried one of the new "Posi Grips".  I'm really likeing this grip, as your hand will move "nada..nowhere"... The only draw back, and this is with either the bow saddle or posi grip, is the grip grows a bit in diameter.

Have my Kwyk Styk set up with the Posi Grip and will be using it in AK. in 2 weeks on a bear hunt.. I think this will be "just the ticket" if it rains much.    

Gene