Houston area gunsmith to bush Remington firing pin hole

[jbarron]

Any recommendations for a smith in the Houston area(+- ~50 miles) to bush a firing pin hole on a Remington bolt? Normally I would send it to Gre-Tan, but I can't take the down time.

 

[Bamban]

Try Pete Piper in Hempstead

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Precision Barrel Work - Custom Gunsmithing for Benchrest, Hunting and Varmint Rifles of Highest Quality

 

[Dusty Stevens]

Send it to carlsbad. Itll be done cheaper, like a week to get back and be perfect. No reason to fret over a couple weeks down at the most

 

[Fast14riot]

+1 for Carlsbad, I sent him 3 bolts at once, he had them done in 2 days and back in the mail to me.

 

[Alex Wheeler]

@carlsbad is the resident bolt busher, he has a good reputation.

 

[butchlambert]

Pete Pieper is close to you. I've known Pete for over 25-30 yrs. Excellent work, honest, and quick.
Carlsbad is good.

 

[carlsbad]

I trust Butch and Bambam's recommendation. However, If Pete isn't eager to do it, don't push him. You don't want someone to take on a job they don't want. I don't know Pete and don't want to take work away from anyone, just saying that a lot of smiths don't do bushing jobs. It isn't easy to set up a bolt and many smiths never bother to develop the tooling. I have several smiths sending me their bolts to bush. --Jerry

 

[Bamban]

I trust Butch and Bambam's recommendation. However, If Pete isn't eager to do it, don't push him. You don't want someone to take on a job they don't want. I don't know Pete and don't want to take work away from anyone, just saying that a lot of smiths don't do bushing jobs. It isn't easy to set up a bolt and many smiths never bother to develop the tooling. I have several smiths sending me their bolts to bush. --Jerry

Jerry,

Thank you for input.

The AR308 bolt you bushed for me that went into my buddy's 1000 yard service rifle is holding up real well despite enduring some real hot loads.

Nez

 

[jbarron]

Thanks for the recommendations and feed back.
I did not want to mail out anything specially in todays weather.
I ended up using Aaron Roberts at Roberts Precision Rifles.

 

[KMart]

Just got one back from Carlsbad on Saturday. Round trip from Houston and back was about 8 days.