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Went cruising by a couple shops after work today looking to what interesting projects I might be able to find at a low cost. A local shop had a neglected Mauser HSC 7.65mm tucked in a display case. I did not get any pictures. It was complete with one magazine but finish was poor. The metal...

Hopefully a little promotion of my video content is OK as I try to get back into sharing regularly. I recently moved to Broward County, Florida for work. It is a beautiful location but there are relatively few outdoor shooting ranges out here (definitely without a costly membership) and I have...

Today I got to really run one of our new guns we've built at the shop. First the specs on the gun: Kelbly Left Hand Action X-Caliber .264 barrel that I threaded and chambered in 6.5 Creedmoor Timney Trigger PDC Custom Chassis (bedded with Marine Tex) Sig Sauer Tango 6 3-18X44 We set...

Just a quick question, looking for some input. For those who do bedding jobs, I am most likely going to bed my CZ 452 ZKM trainer. I have done so before in its birchwood stock but I wasn't super impressed with the results (it was a practice piece for school) and I am going to be transitioning it...

I am excited to announce now that, after completing my course in gunsmithing from Piedmont Technical College, I have graduated and accepted a job offer. I will be working as an apprentice gunsmith/machinist at C&H Precision Weapons, a precision rifle and handgun company out of Labelle, Florida...

Looks like I'll be living in a small camper in an RV park for a couple of months for a job situation. Looking at it, doesn't look like there is any way my gun cabinet is going to fit inside. Do any of you guys have creative solutions for storing them in a small (25-30 foot) camper? Handguns...

A couple of weeks ago I had to send off some parts for a potential job. A piece of steel I had turned to fit a Remington 700 receiver and chambered (literally just a piece of scrap steel) and a rectangular delrin block that I had machined with some slide serration style cuts. They gave me a very...

I posted a thread Not long ago about a 1944 Smith Corona 1903A3 I picked up in sporter condition. The plan was to keep it in sporter condition but with a new stock, trigger and sights. As it was. One of the immediate problems was the trigger. It had to be one of the worst I had ever felt...

Somebody has assigned to me the task of designing and modeling my own slide cuts for Glock handguns. This is simply a technical and educational exercise. However, while I'm already going to be working on it, I wanted to ask of those here: For those of you who have bought custom cut slides or...

Went to the local gun store today for a couple boxes of .22 ammo to shoot this weekend. I passed a Smith Corona 03A3 sitting on the counter that I had been looking at for at least 4 or 5 months now. It was a sporter in pretty decent mechanical condition with some stock damage that they were...

Hopefully this is a good forum for this thread. I hear all the time that it's OK to shoot steel cased ammo in Russian or Eastern European guns because they're "designed" to shoot steel cases. So, debates about steel-cased ammo being good or bad in American guns aside, if you were wanting to...

Bearingarms.com shared this article earlier which I find troubling https://bearingarms.com/bob-o/2017/03/03/charges-dismissed-drone-executing-kentucky-father/ On the surface, it would seem to be a good thing: hero dad saves sunbathing daughter from spying drone. Problem is, the evidence (which...

A project I worked on in school recently. Wanted to customize my CZ 75 BD as I never really shot it after I got my P-01. I stripped everything, started a trigger and action job, etc. and got to refinishing. My plan was to hot blue everything, but it was suggested to me to consider color case...

Working on one of these right now that is a real pain. The action Spring Tube on the original (appears to be aluminum) was broken off in place in the threads. The threaded section of the old one was still in place and had to be pulled out with an Easy-Out. I was able to order a new one from...

After receiving a scholarship and student membership to the American Pistolsmiths Guild, I was sent a lot of tools and small parts from various companies to build a 1911. I am in my final semester of gunsmithing school where I have the most freedom in my own education and support from the...

I got my CWP a couple of months ago and have been searching for a good concealed carry holster for my CZ P-01. When I picked the gun up in the shop, I got a Sticky Holster for it which was convenient but not really secure or a good solution for carrying effectively. I was talking about holsters...

Since I got my CZ P-01, I use it much more than my 75. I carry the P-01 and it fits my hand better and now I use it for all serious defensive use. The BD was originally intended as a defensive and do-all handgun, but I just don't end up using it that much. When I do get it out and play with it...

First, a Note: I have been using online forums since I was barely a teenager. I am used to long winded posts and cataloguing my experiences and experiments for other forum members to read, and I feel pretty comfortable with the written form of this. I have decided to branch out and try a new...

Took in a family gun to work on in class. Did a complete detail strip where I disassembled everything that wasn't riveted in place. Every pin, spring everything else out of the gun. Every part fully disassembled from the bolt, trigger group and everything else. Did a complete cleaning as the gun...

Wanted to say a thank you to the American Pistolsmiths Guild for recognizing the issues facing gunsmithing students and the reality that there is a lot going against aspiring gunsmiths on the path to learning. They have created a scholarship for gunsmithing students nearing graduation, which I...