coonan: a flash of blinding light

Most companies producing America’s iconic pistol adhere pretty faithfully to the way JMB intended it, which is good for us purists and those seeking a classic with modern metallurgy and tooling. Star, Ballester Molina, Detonics and AMT are some that have interpreted old slabsides in their own way, and though each were great in their own right, of those four companies only Detonics has survived (albeit shuttered and reopened) to this day. Similarly, Coonan Arms originally came into being in the 1970's, ran for 20 years or so then wrapped up the early 90's. Then in 2009 Coonan, Inc resurrected the marque under Dan Coonan's erudition: they've been growing steadily ever since thanks to their market awareness, their proprietary take on the 1911 platform, their premium quality and to having cornered the market with their magnum chambering. The 357MAG is a great round for pretty much any application and has been both feared and revered since it’s debut in 1935: though we typically think of it as a revolver caliber, Dan Coonan made it his golden child to be delivered by a bloodline of smooth-sided beauties. Boasting a simpler, stronger external extractor, a more sensory pivoting trigger and an accurizing linkless barrel, Coonan pistols impress their owners to the point of a religious conversion aided in part by the flash of blinding light and smart rap to the palm with each squeeze of its lovely trigger. These are not beginners pistols by the way, nor are they for the feint hearted or recoil-shy, these are six guns for shooters who one hundred and fifty years ago would have worn two single action revolvers on their belt but who today want the speed, accuracy, equal reliability and unequivocal power of one single-action semi-auto to keep up with these fast and furious times. Or for those who just like owning a beautiful, magnum, custom steel pistol that’ll outshoot your friend’s ubiquitous plastic boot of a gun on Sundays at the range. There’s nothing more satisfying than fervently believing American firearm engineers make more aesthetically pleasing pistols than the Europeans no matter how cheap, popular and accessorizable (not sure that’s a word?) Euro pistols are. American steel dominates, and, like Coonan, Inc, is here to stay. I may not always be right, but I’m always sure. Check them out at http://www.coonaninc.com
GOM