Supporting local is nice, but doesn’t always get you where you want to be. Ask around at the local prs match, see who smithed their’s. And if they are all running factory builds or shipped off parts…. There is your answer.
It took me a while to find a good smith where i live. I brought him the first shorter barrel 6.5cm, to which he did not understand why i would do such a thing. Then he saw it in action. Anyways, he is not cheap and backlogged. Both of those are signs he is a good smith. Someone who is like “oh, i could knock that out this week” cannot be all that great or he would be busy. At least typically….