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    I'm a Gunsmith !

    Finally got the promotion today.

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    Congrats!
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    Congratulations!

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    Excellent! So am I, but only my guns know for sure.
    If it was easy, anybody could do it.

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    What is your specialty?

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    Congrats! I'm not good luck

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    Hazah!!! Good job!!! If you do any cool rigs post photos so we can all see and drool

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    No pictures. I work for a manufacturing company.

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    what do you do there?

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    Quote Originally Posted by T-Bird View Post
    what do you do there?
    He's a gunsmith!


    By the way, congrats GARD72977!

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    Congrats. Can you make a light-tight dovetail with hand files? THAT’s a gunsmith.
    "Experience is a series of non-fatal mistakes"


    Disarming is a mistake free people only get to make once...

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    It's an ammunition company

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    Six months ago I couldn't even spell gunsmif, now I are one.

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    Congrats to you. Feels really good when you get the "white" apron.

    I have a hard time not laughing at my one relative. Hes assembled 1 AR in a local class and Hes now a gunsmith. LOL

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    Quote Originally Posted by country gent View Post
    Congrats to you. Feels really good when you get the "white" apron.

    I have a hard time not laughing at my one relative. Hes assembled 1 AR in a local class and Hes now a gunsmith. LOL
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    Well done! Can you rig it where we get first crack at blems and things??
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    Wish I would have payed more attention to my tool & die instructor in junior college. I may have ended up with your skills or path. If only I was younger. Congratulations on the promotion and good luck!

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    That sounds like something I heard at colorado school of trades. That project would make most patient people lose their cool!

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    Sorry, that was a response to the light tight dovetail with hand files. Didn't get the quote in there.

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    Quote Originally Posted by scattershot View Post
    Congrats. Can you make a light-tight dovetail with hand files? THAT’s a gunsmith.
    My experience is that while that may be a good skill to have in the repertoire, few people are willing to pay for what that service would be worth in the year 2021. So yes, that skill may qualify one as an impoverished gunsmith.

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Abbreviations used in Reloading

BP Bronze Point IMR Improved Military Rifle PTD Pointed
BR Bench Rest M Magnum RN Round Nose
BT Boat Tail PL Power-Lokt SP Soft Point
C Compressed Charge PR Primer SPCL Soft Point "Core-Lokt"
HP Hollow Point PSPCL Pointed Soft Point "Core Lokt" C.O.L. Cartridge Overall Length
PSP Pointed Soft Point Spz Spitzer Point SBT Spitzer Boat Tail
LRN Lead Round Nose LWC Lead Wad Cutter LSWC Lead Semi Wad Cutter
GC Gas Check