didn't quite know where to put this
I know a very good local gunsmith and rightfully so he is backed up with work and wait times are quite long. so I did some google search and a bunch of ads popped up, one very close by. I called the man and had quite a long conversation with him. after returning from Afghanistan with an honorable discharge he used his benefits to go into some pretty serious debt to complete gunsmith school through online instruction with "Sonoran Desert Institute"
Now when I was in my 20's I spent a lot of time helping out at a gunsmith shop with a man who could properly repair just about any kind of gun and I sure as heck am not a gunsmith but I have done a few simple repairs for myself on various firearms and built a few AR's from bits and pieces.
Well anyway after speaking with this young man for quite a while it really made me wonder exactly what kind of school he had been accredited by. for example when I asked him if he reblued guns he really didn't know what I was talking about and said that in school he learned how to do hydrgraphics.
I dont think I'll be dropping off my antique slide action Remington with him.
It sounded to me that this school took a whole bunch of his money put him in debt and taught him how to put together an AR. I wonder if Sonoran institute is an NRA recognized gunsmith school. which I think might be a pretty good benchmark.