gunsmith

Hello, I would like to post a link to our YouTube channel hoping that it would be helpful to all the gun enthusiasts. We are a gunsmith specializing in Historical firearms. We just finished a series of videos focusing on troubleshooting the most common C96 issues. Hope you find this helpful...

Hey everybody, I recently picked up a Siamese 45/70 rebarrel. She sits in an extra heavy stock that I have already bedded and am refinishing. Receiver and barrel both look excellent except for some thinned bluing but I also plan to rust blue entire thing as well. Anyway my real problem seems to...

Hello all. Looking for a Gunsmith in the St.Louis area. Does anyone know if OttoComp is still working? Any opinions about who could perform some work on a few weapons? Thank You.

I was just wondering the other day, why don't rifles use a tapered collet setup to mount barrels into actions? If this method is secure and concentric enough for the tooling used to make the barrel on a lathe, then why no use something like an ER 25 collet geometry to hold the barrel shank? I...

How many of you change your own sights? I mean specifically instead of taking the gun into a smith. Do you have a sight pusher, or just use a punch and hammer?

I'm looking to find someone who will make a replacement .500 S&W cylinder.

This will be my first post here, and i truly how I'm not asking a stupid question or one that's already been asked a thousand times (I couldn't find anything with multiple searches but hey). I am curious, what is the temperature threshold at which rifle barrels are ruined? I've seen people...

If you are interested in gunsmithing, history and a bit of humor you might enjoy Mark Novak's Anvil series. Here's a link to one of the videos With the way YouTube is treating firearm related posts, he needs direct support. I am paying a bit every month to him, Forgotten Weapons and...

Hey everyone, New to the site hoping to find some knowledge on a topic no one seems to have answers to. I purchased a M57 Tokarev from Classic Firearms, it arrived cosmo covered and was quickly taken apart and cleaned. 1st issue- Everything came apart without issue except for the pin in the...

I was recently at Sportsman's Warehouse in Slidell, Louisiana. They gave me a card advertising their gunsmithing service. You can drop off or pick up at any Sportsman's Warehouse location. All work is done at their Gunsmith Center at 1630 S 5070 W, Ste 200, Salt Lake City, UT 84104 Their...

Can someone give some ideas on shortening a newer production 629 I got it for a good price, but the 6.5” full lug isn’t my bag. I’d prefer to get it to 4” or 3”. Any decent folks doing this work who won’t take a kidney?

Why does gunsmithing not fall under "Defense Services" instead of "Manufacturing?" It's clearly a service based industry, at least as far as traditional gunsmithing is concerned. I'm not talking about "custom gunsmiths" who are indeed manufacturers, such as guys like Turnbull, Wilson, Les Baer...

I'm writing a movie, based on a true story. One scene concerns slave laborers working in Nazi weapons factories. They want to sabotage rifle and machine gun barrels which they are manufacturing. The Nazi supervisors check every 10th barrel. There is one setup man who handles the initial setup...

I was reading the thread about the 7.62x39 bolt action carbine and then I realized how long it has been since I have reloaded and shot that round and that I might convert a barrel I have to use with a new universal system I fabricated. I have decided to post this project here so others in the...

Last fall I purchased one of the Bren L4A3 kits from Sarco. They are supposed to be providing 7.62x51 caliber barrels one of these days, and I'm starting to look for someone to re-build it as a semi-auto. http://www.e-sarcoinc.com/bren-308-lmg-model-l4a3.aspx Normally when you ship a firearm...

Does anyone know a gunsmith who can do decent work on older H&R Sportsman or 999 revolver? No really. Any leads would be gratefully accepted. Thanks.