Putting together a 30BR Rifle. Looking for very good BR quality Gunsmith, knowing not all are equal. But one that deals Specifically with BR rifles. Preferably a smith in the NE District.
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butchlambert
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Why in the World would you limit yourself to a Smith in a particular area. Find one of the best and put your stuff in the mail.
DngBat7
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Alan Warner of Warner tool. He is next to you in NH. I have not used him, but know that he is pretty highly regarded. He is somewhere on this forum to. I cannot say what particular type of rifle he does tho.
I have a barrel and reamer.
Although I had a guy ask me today about a barrel blank if I would sell him mine. Lol
AlNyhus
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When you talk with people about doing this...ask them right away about using your reamer. At the very least, they'll want to look at the print for your reamer.
All 30BR reamers are not created equal. There are some very good 30BR reamers available. And some real turkeys.
Good shootin'. -Al
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I’m getting the reamers and custom dies from the guy I am getting the rifle and barrel from.
LVLAaron
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I Wouldn't.
shortgrass
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Your every day machinist may not know of the nuances involved with cutting a chamber. There's a difference between a "machinist" and a "gunsmith machinist". Many confuse the two. I am a gunsmith school grad, also. But I had 16+ yrs of job shop machining experience before I enrolled (Montgomery C C , class of '93). But, even though I am retirement age now, I still go to the machine shop for a few hours a day (where 'faster', but still to print, makes more money). I do a lot of barrel work in my 'smith shop, enough I'm not taking on any more until I can catch-up. Part of my backlog is S&W repairs and mods, and the hand fit and finish wood stock work I do, and the rust blue (shop rates $65-$75 if it's something I wanna "f" with). The things a "gunsmith" does! I considered Murry State when I was looking, choose MCC instead, as they went 'deeper' into the trade. Trinidad had a waiting list.
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LVLAaron
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Bingo.
butchlambert
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Most of the top gunsmiths are not machinist. Being a machinist would have accelerated their learning curve.
Alex Wheeler
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Im not a machinist but Im on the lathe over 40hrs a week.
DaveTooley
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Approaching 8,000 barrels now on one machine in the last 15 years. No machinist here but I get by.
AlNyhus
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Dave, Stan Ware had a sign in his shop that said:
"30 dayz uhgo I cuhduhnt schpell 'guhnschmidt' and now I iz one."
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