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    Gunsmithing Please Help a Student Out - Receiver Drilling

    Fellas, I could use some help from those of you experienced with drilling and tapping receivers for scope mounts. This is a long one, so if you'll bear with me I'd appreciate it. I'm a student and I've been instructed on how to use a Forster Universal Sight Mounting Fixture. However, I've...
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    Gunsmithing Please Educate Me on Tap Life

    I'm in my first year of gunsmithing school and I could use some input on the expected useful life of a tap. I hadn't thought much about it until I was buying some cutting oil from Brownells and read this statement in the description for the oil: "We know of cases where all four holes for a...
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    New Member Introduction

    I'm new to these forums and wanted to take a minute to introduce myself. I'm a former Marine, now a bean counter. Next month I'll be starting a weekend gunsmithing program at Montgomery Community College in Troy, NC. Since I'm doing the weekend program, it will take me four years to complete...