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Gunsmithing: Avoid Making These Common Mistakes

Gunsmithing: Avoid Making These Common Mistakes

Countless firearms, old and new, bear the marks, burrs and gouges that are the result of using the wrong tools for taking them apart. In the interest of preventing this sort of thing, Kevin Muramatsu shares a few gunsmithing basics, from the most recent edition of the “Gun Digest Book of Rimfire Rifles Assembly/Disassembly.”

Gunsmithing the AR: 3 Tips for Buffers & Recoil Springs

Gunsmithing the AR: 3 Tips for Buffers & Recoil Springs

In “Gunsmithing: The AR-15,” Patrick Sweeney shares tricks and information gathered over 25 years of shooting and wrenching on the AR-15. The following tips are from the chapter on buffers and recoil springs.

Hopefully, your gun now looks like this again.

Is Your Ruger Pistol in Pieces?

The resident gunsmith here at GD tells me that a lot of people show up with their Ruger Standard Auto pistol in pieces, in a box. If that describes the current condition of your Ruger pistol, we’re here to help.

The Kel-Tec PF-9 is a thin, lightweight, single-stack 9mm pistol offering excellent purchase right out of the box.  Stippling the tops of each square made it even better.

Get a Grip On Plastic Guns

How to hand stipple the stocks of your polymer-framed pistol for a better grip.

Sinclair International’s bolt maintenance kit.

Keep Your Bolt Running Right

When was the last time you paid any attention to the bolt on your bolt-action rifle? New tools now make routine maintenance much simpler.

Building a National Match AR

Building a National Match AR

The author builds an AR from parts to be used in CMP competition.

Jan and Rascal, best friends, take a break in his shop.

Former Prison Guard finds Happiness, Success and Profit Gunsmithing

Jan-Steven Merson had a job that paid the bills, but his passion for firearms spurred him to make a career change. These courses by AGI helped him accomplish his goal.

Video: Set Up Your Scope for Success

Video: Set Up Your Scope for Success

The National Shooting Sports Foundation’s (NSSF) Ryan Cleckner shows you how to properly set up your rifle and scope combination so that it naturally aligns with your eye.

The stock and rail are installed and the wood is showing off its grain a bit. (Below) An image from the rear quarter shows the whole assembly, rail, stock, and dot

Gunsmithing: Can You Improve the M-1 Carbine?

There are two schools of thought on the M-1 Carbine. Neither involves lots of work on the gun. While the Carbine been denigrated for lack of stopping power, inaccuracy, and an anthropomorphic lack of small round things, it has a lot going for it and, yes, it can even be improved.

Mexico has questions for ATF in light of "Project Gun Runner."

ATF ‘Project Gunwalker’ Now ‘an international incident’

“FLASH! The government of Mexico has formally asked the United States for details of the ATF operation ‘Fast and Furious’!” Mike Vanderboegh reported yesterday morning on the Sipsey Street Irregulars blog.