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Gunsmithing Articles
How-to articles and advice for gunsmithing from Gun Digest.
Classic Guns: Collecting Custom Rifles
Editor’s Note: Click here for instant firearms values and gun prices. Tom Turpin’s new book, “Custom Rifles: Mastery of Wood and Metal” will be hitting the bookstores this month. It’s a handsome hardcover and heavy with photos printed on glossy paper. Turpin takes the reader inside the workshop of one of the best custom [...]
Explained: The Three Types of Custom Rifle Barrels
The vast majority of custom rifle makers do not manufacture their own barrels. It is simply too costly to perform this function in-house due to the cost of the equipment necessary and the relatively few barrels that the maker will require. This is, simply put, another area that required years of expertise to achieve [...]
NSSF Offers Free Gun Safety DVDs
The National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF) is offering schools the opportunity to receive–free of charge–educational videos about firearm safety and wildlife conservation. The firearm safety videos help teach students how to react when encountering a firearm in an unsupervised situation. In addition, the conservation titles educate students on how wildlife and wild lands are protected, [...]
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
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.
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.
Get a Grip On Plastic Guns
How to hand stipple the stocks of your polymer-framed pistol for a better grip.
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
The author builds an AR from parts to be used in CMP competition.
