Recent content by A Gunsmith

So in January of 2011 I moved to a new state to attend gunsmithing school. Being in a new unfamiliar area, I went gunshop surfing at the local gunsops, and pawnshops being most of them bought and sold guns. I found a local Pawn Shop, seemed the manager made it real easy to wheel and deal, I...

Re: for the 1911 guys Me and a friend took out a Springfield Range Officer and ran about 250 rnds through it out of the box with zero issues. and several times sense, with no problems its between 900.00 and a 1000.00 for the money and accuracy I felt it was a good buy.

Re: Advantage/Disadvantage Hey All, besides deadly being a cock sucker, as usual when he has no idea what he is slapping his lips together about, this was a question of opinion and debate, and all of you gave good answer better then mine would of been. my opinion unless it is under special...

Re: 16.5 " barrel questions Its post like this that makes me want to Blue print my Remington 700, and inlet and bed a stock for it. this gyn truely sucked out of the box. and to respond to this post, I would just order a blank with the flutes in it, snd to all who replied great answers

Re: Advantage/Disadvantage so its still a disadvantage because there should be enough space to do that in a short action

Re: Advantage/Disadvantage 1 advantage

what are the advantages or disadvantage of a .243 in a long action??

Re: Wanting to build my first Savage and have question 243 is a short action recievr and any synthetic stock that has the width should be able to be modified by a competent gunsmith fare warning its a lot of work, and time consuming.

Re: sand blast just remove the bolt and polish it, dont bead blast the inside of the reciever, and if possible use dow rod to plug tube and barrel. or the inside of the slide arm, smoother the better

Re: Little bastard break coming loose on ar10 Im with Hellbender, just make sure not to put red Locktite if its real loose pipe tape works also but generally Blue locktite works.

Re: Coating issues with kg when I have issues with it, I bead blast then ,parkerize, works good for me, when I cant get dura coate or cera koate to stick.

Re: Now my rifle has a brother....... Nice