CUSTOM CARRY WEAPONS

Thoughts on any Carry Weapon:  People buy carry guns with the hopes that they will  never have to use them.  The reality is, it's the anticipation is that they might need them. Tailoring a carry firearm to the individual is more critical, than tailoring a target firearm to an individual's needs. The stakes are higher. Yet many have their dollars invested in their target arms and really do not get to the range as often with their carry weapons.

We do strongly recommend with any self defense weapon to go through a break-in period usually consisting of a couple hundred rounds at a suitable range. You not only break in the pistol but you get used to it's generally smaller size, feel and recoil so your whole package of shooter and weapon come together. This is the most important phase of self defense and should be not taken lightly. You won't have time if you find yourself in a stressful situation to take out the book.

This is why we offer these modifications. You buy life insurance that nobody benefits from until your death. You could think of this as being life insurance from which you could benefit -while you are alive. Make this YOUR individual firearm. Practice with it, it should be as comfortable to shoot as your range firearms.

Couple of notes on policy and pricing:
Prices, of parts may vary due to current market conditions.  
Some refinishing may be required on your weapon, custom work sometimes requires metal removal and those effected parts may have to be refinished. That is a separate charge.
What you see below are only samples of what we can do. The possibilities are endless
 

REVOLVERS
PORTING - PLATED - STREET TUNED - BEVELED CHAMBERS

There are hundreds of revolvers to choose from made by Colt, Smith and Wesson, RUGER, Taurus, Rossi, and others in every just about  every caliber from .32 to 44 magnum.

The Ruger pictured started as a .357 magnum, ported and plated to brush chrome and the usual AP&W gunsmithing magic applied.  The Ruger has a reputation for strength and reliability. It's a stout frame but the .357 round needs a stout frame. Aside from a French Manurhin 3 inch snub nose, I saw carried by a fellow in LE GIGN, this frame to caliber size is stout. The tune and the porting tame this firearm and make a very serious personal protection piece out of it.  Generally the Ruger's come with what we call a factory tune.  I call it shaving with a blade that's been used twenty times. Bob's street tune makes the gun handle differently.  I can control mine.

THE WALTHER'S
Walther's and their clones are an incredible, efficient, easily concealable, protective sidearm. -BUT- they have a few small idiosyncrasies.  Accurate and the Cogan Custom shop do a fine job with these three areas of improvement..  TUNING - GRIP - FINISH...  TGF...doesn't mean it's Friday. The only thing we can't do is the magic 007, James Bond could do with it. It won't take a fully clothed wool over coated enemy soldier down at 100 yards on a snow filled battlefield in Flubackistan with any degree of success.

NOTE: The first thing we recommend (almost insist) is an Action job.  They are sprung very high and some of their stainless internal parts are not as friction free as they should be.

This makes for an unnatural grip and tendon movement and combined with the fact the average shooter won't hit the broadside of the barn with the short barreled guns makes for bad bedfellows.  So we improve the release and that improves the accuracy. The PPK and the PPKs are small framed meaning small gripped guns.  It's like golf, if the grip isn't right the whole game is shot. If you overcompensate because of a tough trigger pull, the grip won't be right.

The last thing you need after a tough trigger pull is a nasty bite or cut on your hand. The back of the grip needs a little de-burring or they "tend" to bite the web on your hand. Pull the slide back and take a look at those edges. We have a proven de-burring cure for that.

If you own a blued version and you carry one a lot, you should consider Hard Chroming it, especially if shoulder or leg carry.  These guys like any blued gun will rust with holster, skin or sweat contact. The one clone shown above is from Hungary and makes an excellent carry when tuned and Chromed.  Even James Bond would appreciate the difference.
 

COLT .380 PISTOLS

Bobbed Grip tang