Performance Center Guns Stand Alone. Here's Why.

Performance Center Gunsmiths Provide Specialized Services For The Most Demanding Gun Enthusiasts:

Professionals who require the best firearm precision-adapted to their preferences
Competitive shooters who want performance that matches their capabilities
Discriminating outdoorsmen who demand superior performance
Collectors who look for unique limited edition guns

The Smith & Wesson Performance Center^® builds handguns of uncompromising quality for sophisticated firearms users with specific expectations and exclusive applications.

Performance Center customers are the world's most demanding competition shooters, tactical specialists, big game hunters and high-end collectors. They know exactly what they want in their handguns and why.

To meet their requirements, Performance Center gunsmiths conceptualize, engineer and hand-craft our products from the ground up. The team comprises the "best of the best," with an average length of service with Smith & Wesson of over 23 years.

Some served in special forces units or on SWAT teams. Others are engineers or tool makers by trade. There are big game hunters, competition champions and collectors. Every member of the Performance Center team is actively involved in competitive shooting and are all highly skilled and experienced gunsmiths.

Guns matter to them and they know them intimately. Performance Center stands for the supreme expression of the gunsmith's craft.

Here are just a few of the custom features available on Performance Center products.

In Semi-Auto Pistols we offer custom features like:

Hand Lapped Frame and Slide Rails
Match Grade Barrels
Polished Feed Ramps
Precision Crowned Muzzles
Hand Cut Chambers
Hand Cut Transition Angles
Hand Polished and Stoned Internal Actions
Hand Fit and Lapped Barrel Bushings
Checkered Front Straps

These pistols offer performance and reliability unmatched in the industry.

Performance Center Revolvers are unmatched in the field after big game, or at the range.

Features like the following are offered:

Custom Two Piece Barrels - Precision-Made by Walther in Germany
Forged Hammers and Triggers that are Flashed Chromed
World Record Holding 8 Shot Cylinders (.357 only)
Performance Tuned Actions
Recessed and Crowned Muzzles
Tuned Rates of Twists for the Specific Caliber
Integral Accessory Rails

These and many other features make Performance Center firearms the choice for the discriminating shooter looking for custom features, when only the best is good enough. If you are looking for unmatched reliability and performance, the Smith & Wesson Performance Center is the place.

The Performance Center also offers a full line of after-market Custom Gunsmithing for any S&W firearm. Service is unequalled and prices and turnaround times are the best in the industry. In addition the custom work does not void your warranty.

If you are looking for a hand-built and tuned firearm, or custom work done to your S&W, the gunsmiths in the Performance Center are waiting for you. Old World handcrafted firearms at real world prices. For this generation and the next.

Performance Center Firearms -

Model 952 Long Slide SKU: 170274

Performance Center Guns Stand Alone. Here's Why.