Bespoke & factory ordering
A gun built to your specification, ordered from the factory
Most guns are sold as they arrive. We also do the other thing: fit you properly, write your specification down, and order the gun from the factory to match it — model, barrels, chokes, stock and finish.
Anyone can sell you a gun that is already here. Ordering one properly is the part that takes experience.
A built-to-order gun is a list of decisions made before the steel is cut: barrel length and rib, chokes, length of pull, drop and cast, balance, weight, engraving and finish. Get them right and the gun shoots where you look. Get them wrong and no amount of practice fixes it. So we fit you first, agree the specification with you, and place the order with the factory against your fit sheet. Every factory order goes through Costa, and the specification is checked against your measurements before anything is ordered.
How a factory order runs
- Step 1
Fitting
You are measured on the try-gun and the result is proved on the pattern plate. The numbers go on a written fit sheet you keep.
- Step 2
Specification
Model and grade, barrel length and rib, chokes, stock dimensions, trigger, balance and finish — decided with Costa and checked against your fit sheet.
- Step 3
Confirmation
You receive the price, the deposit and the factory's expected delivery time in writing. Nothing is ordered until you say so.
- Step 4
Build
The order goes to the factory to your specification — not to whichever configuration happens to be available.
- Step 5
Arrival and handover
The gun is checked against the specification and shot with you before handover, subject to the Firearms Control Act.
What your fit sheet decides
Length of pull, drop and cast
Taken from the try-gun and carried into the stock, so the gun mounts the same way every time.
Pitch and balance
Where the gun points when you look at the target — settled before the wood is cut.
Barrel length, rib and chokes
Matched to the discipline you shoot and the clays or birds you break.
Weight and trigger
Set for how long you stand on a stand and how you break the shot.
Wood, engraving and finish
Where the factory offers them — the choices that make the gun yours rather than somebody else's.
The factories we order from
We are an appointed Krieghoff dealer and an authorised Browning, Beretta and JP Enterprises dealer, so the order goes to the factory rather than through a third party.
Price, deposit and paperwork
- Price on application. A built-to-order gun is quoted for you individually — model, grade and options change the price. It is confirmed in a written quotation before you commit.
- Deposit. Guns built to order may require a deposit; on bespoke and special-order items it is non-refundable once the order is placed with the manufacturer, as set out in our terms of sale.
- Lead times. The factory's expected delivery time is confirmed with you before the order is placed; lead times on built-to-order guns are the manufacturer's estimates.
- Licensing. You need a valid competency certificate and firearm licence, or a dealer-to-dealer transfer, and the paperwork must be in order before a gun is handed over or dispatched. We guide you through it.
Not sure where to start?
Book a fitting first. Even if you never order a new gun, you leave with a written fit sheet — and if you do, that sheet is the specification the factory works from.