Headspace help

[Silent-Snail]

I am looking for a gunsmith capable of doing headspace work in the south central Wisconsin area. After talking to the 3 local dealers that I am aware of I have decided that either I have horrendous luck or even the people I pay good money to wont treat my with the respect a paying customer deserves.
sorry for the mini-rant but this is fast becoming a Royal Pain. Anywho the location of a competent gunsmith within two or three counties of Green would be looked upon kindly by the Gun Gods.

 

[Jim K]

What "headspace work" do you need done and on what gun?

Jim

 

[HSMITH]

Gander Mountain in Kenosha employs some real gunsmiths, as well as engravers and so on. It is located at Hwy 50 and I-94. I don't know where Green County is so I am not sure how far that is for you.

 

[Silent-Snail]

Sorry the response took so long.
HSMITH, Green County (the one that looks like a square) is located south central on the PDRI border.
As for what I want just a basic No-Go check on a No4 Mk1 Enfield, MN 91/30, and Yugo SKS. Kinda like a pre hunting thing that I should have had done a while ago. BTW I am unable to afford any but the most basic maintainance(sp?) materials and wouldn't know what to do with them even if I could.

 

[kart racer]

Snail,I have a mosin and sks and bought the no go gauges for them.I've checked probably 20 mosins with and without matching #'s and they all passed w/o a problem.the mosin is probably fine,but if your like me you want to know for sure.I have a yugo all matching #'s and it was fine.I've checked a handful of other yugos and all were good.If you plan on buying any more milsurps it's worth buying the gauge(they're easy to use).I bought mine from brownell's made by manson for 24.00 ea.

 

[Sunray]

"...I want just a basic No-Go check..." Good for you. However, the problem you'll run into with any smithy is finding one who has the guages for all three Like Kart says, you may be better to buy at least the No-Go for each. You really need the Field too. Brownell's has Clymer guages for all three at $30 each. Manson doesn't appear to make the .303 or 7.62x54R guages. At least they're not listed at Brownell's. http://www.brownells.com/aspx/NS/store/ProductDetail.aspx?p=19250

 

[kart racer]

Sunray,manson has the 7.62x54,it's the one I got.What got me.was I asked three local shops and they all told me not to worry about the mosin,it checked on the rim and there wasn't anything to worry about.Hell,I checked it and still found somebody at the range to shoot it the first time I had my youngun' with me and the guy that shot it said,you just put it down to at your waist and if it blows up it'll be all right-the guy with him said,yeah-it'll just blow off your nuts,my boy said better him than us huh dad...oh,buy the way,yankee engineers has a gauge where you don't have to take the extractor out,but there is normally a several week wait for the gauge.

 

[Jim K]

The only gauge you really need for a used rifle is the Field gauge. The GO and NO-GO gauges are used at the factory or when installing a new barrel or bolt. Many rifles that have seen any use at all will fail the NO-GO test, but the Field gauge will weed out those at or getting close to the trouble area.

Jim