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How-to articles and advice for gunsmithing from Gun Digest.

Tips to Re-Assemble Your Springfield M1A

Tips to Re-Assemble Your Springfield M1A

When it comes time to reassemble your Springfield M1A after cleaning or repair, it will be critical to remember these important points.

Editor’s Pick: Gun Digest Book of Shotgun Assembly/Disassembly

Editor’s Pick: Gun Digest Book of Shotgun Assembly/Disassembly

Stripping your shotgun down for cleaning and maintenance can be a hassle if you’re not an expert gunsmith. Enter Kevin Miramatsu’s newest book, Gun Digest Book of Shotgun Assembly/Disassembly.

Gunsmithing Tips to Re-assemble Your Smith & Wesson Bodyguard 380

Gunsmithing Tips to Re-assemble Your Smith & Wesson Bodyguard 380

While the Smith & Wesson Bodyguard 380 is easily disassembled for gun repair or cleaning, these tips from gunsmith Kevin Muramatsu will help make reassembly even easier.

Giveaway: Win the New “Shotguns Assembly/Disassembly”

Giveaway: Win the New “Shotguns Assembly/Disassembly”

Gun repair, maintenance and shotgun cleaning just got easier, with our newest book release, “Gun Digest Book of Shotguns Assembly/Disassembly 3rd Edition.” This week, we’re giving away a copy of this must-have gun book to one lucky winner.

Video: Customize a Gun With a New Barrel

Video: Customize a Gun With a New Barrel

In this video, Dave Morelli shows it doesn’t have to be hard to customize a gun. He swaps in a new barrel to breathe life into an old rifle.

That Pesky Spring: Two Tricks to Reassemble Your 1911

That Pesky Spring: Two Tricks to Reassemble Your 1911

After cleaning or maintenance, most pistols can be reassembled simply by reversing the order of disassembly. And some can’t. Check out these tips for reassembling your 1911 pistol.

Which direction, and how far, are clues. Track them with a new rifle, and if they ever change, you know something is up.

The AR-15: Getting Things Apart

Learn how to field-strip and completely disassemble your AR-15 – and get it all back together again – for routine and advanced cleaning, maintenance and repair.

Diagrams Answer 4 Burning Questions for DIY Gunsmiths (& Did You Win the Book?)

Diagrams Answer 4 Burning Questions for DIY Gunsmiths (& Did You Win the Book?)

“Gun Digest Book of Exploded Gun Drawings” has the answers to some of the most common questions from do-it-yourself gunsmiths, with detailed diagrams for more than 1,000 models of handguns, rifles and shotguns, along with a complete directory of firearms trade resources and contact information for buying gun parts and supplies.

Giveaway: Gun Digest Book of Exploded Gun Drawings

Giveaway: Gun Digest Book of Exploded Gun Drawings

Sometimes a simple drawing showing the parts of a gun can be incredibly informative, indicating the placement and direction of insertion of parts with simple lines on paper. That’s what you get with the “Gun Digest Book of Exploded Gun Drawings,” the prize in this week’s book giveaway.

Gun in parts? This book can help.

Gun in Parts? How to Put it Back Together

Whether you have a Colt 1911 or Walther P22 – or anything in between – if you like to clean and maintain your semi auto pistols yourself, this newly-revised edition of “Gun Digest Book of Automatic Pistols Assembly/Disassembly” makes it simple.