In Gardone Val Trompia, at the Pietro Beretta Arms Factory, there is a reality where craftsmanship integrates industrial production: Gun Service Via Artigiani 1 (email: [email protected] - tel. 0308341850).
Gun Service is the point of reference for gunsmiths, shooters or simple users of Beretta guns. A team of master craftsmen, coordinated by Giulia Borghetti and Claudio Ravagnani, is dedicated to customer assistance. Here, by appointment, tailor-made stocks are made, weapon repairs, second barrel adaptations, optics assembly and calibration and all the customizations that can be made on a weapon.
The football player is a bit like a tailor who uses wood instead of fabric, he will have to make the football on the customer by noting all the measures, length, fold, pitch, grip size, advantage and other small variations. Everything is done using a special adjustable stock and, once the best result has been achieved, also trying some shots on the plate to check the right eye-front sight-target alignment, established measures and dimensions, you are ready to choose the wood.
In an air-conditioned room there are a large number of them lined up, divided by degree of value, the choice will be dictated by the model of the shotgun, by the beauty, by the price and by the weight, not a secondary factor for the perfect balance of the shotgun. Once the selection has been made, the chosen wood will be placed in a machine that in about 20 minutes realizes the recess for the receiver and a first roughing of the wood according to the measurements previously detected. At this point the football player intervenes who, manually, through various passages and also shooting tests, will give the stock its definitive dimensions. Once it is established together with the shooter that the ideal result has been achieved, we move on to finishing, then to manual knurling and oil treatment, an operation that takes several days as the oil must be gradually absorbed by the wood.
A separate discussion must be dedicated to knurling machines, an all-female art that is handed down from mother to daughter in Gardone. The checkering is a very delicate and fundamental operation for the perfect grip of a rifle, here the experience and the little secrets that an artisan confides to her daughter make kicks Beretta the perfect complement to fine and skeet weapons.
Gun Service Beretta - A personal file is created for each customer, which will be the reference for the subsequent processing of the stocks on old and new guns.
In addition to custom-made stocks, the Gun Service also carries out the adaptations of standard stocks, small variations in the fold, replacing pads, lengthening and shortening, modifications of the temples and insertion of initials, both engraved on an oval plate of noble metal or directly embedded in the wood. In one year, about 700 kicks by shooters and hunters from all over the world are customized, including new bespoke adjustments and adjustments.
But the Gun Service Beretta it is much more, when you buy a second pair of barrels of an over-and-under or side-by-side shotgun, the mechanics of the Gun Service carry out the correct coupling between the new barrels and the old receiver, an operation that always requires human intervention to optimize its functionality, there is always some micro difference between one shotgun and another due to manual finishes and wear caused by use.
All repairs are carried out here, even within the day, as well as the Beretta firearms also of the Sako, Tikka and Umarex CO2 firearms, all distributed in Italy by Pietro Beretta Arms Factory.
An important department is dedicated to the assembly of sighting systems on rifles, whether it is the Steiner and Burris riflescopes and red dots, companies of the Beretta Holding group, or optics from other companies.
To this end, in the tunnel adjacent to the Gun Service there is a firing line up to 100 m long, with an electronic target capable of detecting, in addition to the shot pattern, the distance from the center and the speed of the ball on the target, in real time. to the monitor the last shot fired with the deviation in millimeters from the center. This allows for accurate calibrations with well-detailed pattern tests. The ballistic steel plate for shotgun tests is installed in the same tunnel, which can be positioned at different distances in order to check the efficiency of the chokes and cartridges in all shooting conditions. Of course, the tests and calibrations of the handguns are also carried out in the tunnel, all operations carried out by qualified Beretta personnel.
About 20 specialized professionals including footballers, mechanical technicians, knurlers, testers and administrators make the Gun Service Beretta an excellence dedicated to the satisfaction of the final customer, a reality that joins the large industrial production, where the ability, experience and manual skills are precious for the customization of weapons, whether they are hunting or sporting weapons that only in this way become an integral part of the shooter, almost an extension of his arm. Also thanks to the work of the Gun Service le Beretta weapons they continue to reap successes in all sports disciplines and on all five continents. This structure is the sure point of reference for all the athletes who use the weapons of the Gardonese house, who here find the solution to their needs up to the extreme customization of the weapon. Together with the Beretta Engraver Studio, the Gun Service represents the classic example in which craftsmanship is perfectly integrated with one of the most important industrial realities in our country, as well as excellence in the world arms sector.