Gunsmithing: How to Customize a Beretta Bobcat

Stock issue Berettas can be spruced-up with a little creativity

Customizing your Beretta Bobcat presents a variety of options. The alterations might be fast, time-consuming, simple or complex, but all customizations change the look and feel of your pistol. Do not feel you must make every customization at once. A sportsmen frequently spends years refining and tweaking his Beretta, until he smiths a gun perfect for his needs.

Things You'll Need

• Custom grips
• Replacement trigger connector
• Custom slide-plate cover
• Replacement rear sight
• Jeweling equipment

Instructions

1. Replace the factory grips with custom-made grips. Firearms enthusiasts choose from a litany of grips designed by custom manufacturers, or you might make your own. Grips fashioned from metal, aluminum, wood, fiberglass and carbon-fiber are common choices. You might go so far as to design a pearl-gripped Beretta Bobcat.

2. Replace the trigger connector if the pull is hard, unresponsive or so soft the weapon feels dangerous. Replacing the trigger connector is a utilitarian customization.

3. Add a customized slide-plate cover. Custom slide-plate covers might include initials, company logos or a skull and cross-bones. Several manufacturers specialize in custom-designed slide-plate covers.

4. Exchange your rear-sight for a custom rear-sight. Replacement rear-sights fulfill functional and cosmetic purposes. Purchase a rear-sight notched in a V, as opposed to the factory issue U. Powder-coated rear sights are available in a wide variety of specific colors.

5. Jewel the barrel, slide and ejection port of your Beretta Bobcat. Jeweling is the most personal of all customizations, because most people do it themselves. Jeweling gives the sidearm an aesthetic look unique to the person who designed it.

References

• Angelfire: Gun Jeweling Pictures
• Brownells: Installing a Glock Trigger Connector