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A gunsmith isn't necessarily licensed to manufacture a gun. To be a gunsmith, all you need is a dealers license. A manufacturers license is separate.

Because people think that every single part of a "real" gun should be made of steel, machined from bar stock, forget the fact that they wouldn't want to pay for them if they were.

Have you tried Jack First? http://www.jackfirstgun.com/ Also, http://gungaragegunparts.com/

You don't have to have a high primer, just one not fully seated.

try here: http://www.gunpartscorp.com/catalog/Products.aspx?catid=8374

As to its being hard to rack...lubrication does wonderous things.

You can make the coil spring with the same music wire. Just wind the wire around something a bit smaller than what you want it to be when it's done. Be mindful of wire diameter, turn count and turn spacing.

Try punching some dimples on the bottom of the sight. If you're trying to do this with your punch held perpendicular to the sight, it probably won't work. You need lay the punch over to the side so it really raises some metal.

A link really isn't needed. Take a hacksaw and cut it off where you want it (I wouldn't go below 18.5", minimum legal length is 18"), and dress the end with a file or get this tool from Brownells to dress it. http://www.brownells.com/.aspx/pid=5171/Product/SHOTGUN-BARREL-FACER Don't forget...

I do mine annually, at a minimum.

Try some OOOO steel wool (anything else will leave scratches), combined with WD-40.

Figure the thread depth as 75% for that equation.

Sand blast?

It doesn't look like any of the Savage barrels are big enough to accomplish this. The Mauser is a 1.11" shank, the biggest Savage is 1.125. You wouldn't be able to clean the Mauser threads out before being too big. Unless your Turk is small shank barrel, in which case it's just a bad idea...

I'd sure want to see some more unbiased reporting on this before I took the word of an organization that nobody's ever heard of before.