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I hope this little bit of self-promotion is allowed here in this forum. I recently got a nice little "action" camera with a protective housing and a series of mounts for the purpose of recording some gunsmithing, machining and different shooting activities and I decided I'd put a little bit of...

I have a friend who has access to a very nice laser engraver which can control the depth of cut to .001" on steel. He agreed to engrave a design on a rifle grip cap for me for a rifle I want to build. I want to know if I can hot blue over the engraving, or possibly color case harden. If I...

I've had my VZ2008 for about 2 and a half years, shot probably 1,000 rounds or more out of it, and so far haven't had any complaints. Takedown has always been somewhat difficult with the gas piston. It's been prone to binding when being removed and always took some effort, although lately the...

Contemplating building a Sporter 1903 or 1903A3 (from a stripped receiver or existing sporter, not an intact rifle) for a relative who expressed interest in a .30-06 with iron sights and a wood stock. I'm assuming that I can't get a hold of a donor rifle or action with a good condition barrel on...

Anybody keep a camera around the shop? I'm wanting one I can mount up above me when working on guns to record video and picture of disassembly, modifications, etc and get footage for a "how to" style of video. Also want something fairly rugged and mountable. Would be great to have one with a...

I had a friend reach out to me who wants some help with a build. He has a Mini-30 and wants to do a "mini" version of the USMC M39 EMR https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M39_Enhanced_Marksman_Rifle#/media/File:USMC-090417-M-4595B-185.jpg He has looked online and found the Sage stock for the Mini...

Took my newly finished rifle to the range today to set it in. A friend of mine loaned me a Lead Sled Pro, which I had never used before, and I figured that I had best set it up and take it so I could get some groups recorded with the rifle. I went with the rifle boresighted using a collimator...

I'm a student at Piedmont Technical College's school of Classical Gunsmithing in the end of my 3rd of 4 semesters. Since our second semester (roughly June of this year) we have been working on our class project rifles. Monday begins my last week of this semester, the last week for work on our...

Picked up a couple boxes of this at Academy the other day. On sale for $10.99 a box of brass cased ammo and Monarch has always done well for me before. Shot it through my CZ P-01 which famously doesn't care what ammo is being used. Everything shot fine and ran normally but I noticed maybe a tiny...

In class for our project we are all building custom .30-06 rifles from a Montana action (very close to a Winchester Model 70 with some Mauser features). The barrels we cut, thread, chamber and crown ourselves and then dropped into custom carved walnut stocks. The rifles will be highly polished...

I've started the part of my gunsmithing school where we are finishing our custom .30-06 bolt action rifles from Montana and starting to look/save for the optics which are not included. The rifle is done up with a high polish hot salt blue (800 grit or above) and a high gloss mud-rub walnut stock...

With my birthday passing I was excited to get a new handgun that would be feasible to carry since my CWP application is in the mail. I have had my 75BD for a little over 4 years now and it has done great for me so I decided I wanted to get the P-01 for a lighter and slightly more compact option...

If you remember my last thread, my girlfriend got a Bersa Thunder .380 for a carry gun for Christmas and it was intended to be her CCW. It had an issue where the safety started out stiff, got stiffer, and then became impossible to dis-engage, leaving the gun on safe with no resolution. Being...

As I posted about previously, I recently picked up a used 1974 Marlin 336. A coworker of mine bought it used locally and found out that the entire finish had been replaced with what seems like flat black grill paint (not applied very well either). Every single external and moving part is coated...

Tossing around an idea I had for a project at school when we get done chambering our .30-06 project rifles. The 6.5 Grendel fits in a very compact action and has ballistics which should be pretty capable for hunting purposes out to several hundred yards with low recoil, and can be used for...

Hey all, Started looking into the CZ P-01 (or potentially the PCR) as likely my next handgun as something a little smaller and lighter than my full size CZ for ease of carry. As a budding gunsmith and a CZ fan, I have of course thought about ways to make the gun more "mine" starting with new...

A co-worker of mine found out I was going to school for gunsmithing and asked me to look at a Marlin 336C he had bought used from a local gun shop. He said the action was getting sticky while shooting and he wanted me to pull it apart, clean it, and make sure it's in good functioning order. I...

South Carolina Carry had a regional range meetup yesterday with a few members. We started the day with a short pistol class from a certified instructor and then moved to the rifles everybody brought. I thought my VZ 58 was a pretty cool rifle that most people hadn't had the opportunity to shoot...

Say you were a small shop looking to offer a service to customers to finish their firearms for salt and humidity corrosion, particularly outdoorsmen, fishers, boaters etc in a humid state like Florida. What would you consider to be the best finishes that are approachable with a relatively small...

I recently went out shooting with a friend of mine who spent 5 years shooting on an olympic style small bore team. We were surprised when we opened up our rifle cases to find that we both had a CZ 452. I have a decent general use scope on mine (Nikon P-22) and he used the stock iron sights on...