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Re: Bergara barrels Very good explanation of the benefits of the honing process. Thanks. I can always appreciate an informed and realistic perspective on these forums.

Re: Bergara barrels Have you tried anything in 120 gr range? I'm just interested to see how that 1:9 twist might perform with them.

Re: What lathe for the home gunsmith? @ papGrizzly Just relaized i wrote down Benchrest from your commnets. I meant F-class and had benchrest on the mind from another posting when I was writing that. Completely apologize. I actually kept track of those F-class events and was very...

Re: Why not Gunsmithing for a living?? -A custom barrel is 3 weeks out at best and worse is a year+. It's really tough to float a job that long. Prepare yourself. From the moment a deal is closed I know it'll be at least 90 days before parts begin to show up on the floor. With that kind of...

Re: Bergara barrels Just wanted to plug in about the "sales guys' at Bergara barrels. They're not the engineers or the quality control managers in any way. They sell the barrels and they're pretty good at what they do. As far as the technical aspects of the barrels go, they DO have...

Re: .260 Gas Port Dimensions Just read where DPMS advocates the idea I just discussed by using a smaller diameter hole on a larger bore 338 Federal, probably due to low inherent pressures in the barrel. A smaller gas hole would increase pressure of the gasses being forced back toward the...

Re: .260 Gas Port Dimensions Should be the same as any AR-10 configuration. The main thing that channels the gas is the size of the gas hole; the theory being that the gasses behind the bullet as it passes by the hole are channeled into the same small area for that brief moment to drive the...

Re: Grizzly Industries I've been building all my guns on a G4016. Excellent lathe for the cash.

Re: What lathe for the home gunsmith? ACER lathes are what Colorado School of Trades is using to teach gunsmithing machine shop on. They're pretty good for the cash.

Re: What lathe for the home gunsmith? I do all my rifle-building in my gunsmith shop on a G4016 lathe. It's easy to take up and take down (I had to move my shop once) and has done long range target rifles and hunting rifles (as well as several AR barrel configurations). The army AMU test...

Re: Why not Gunsmithing for a living?? Everybody has had some great input on here regarding gunsmithing as a business (I actually too the time to read them all). As somebody who does this on a daily basis in the industry, let me point out some approaches that might focus wannabe gunsmiths...