Picked up my guns at my Gun Smith

snake284

My gun smith called this morning and said he had all three of my guns ready and I could come get them when I had a chance. I called my friend Arnold up and we went to Refugio. That's about a 50-60 mile drive, so about 1:00 P.M. We took off. When we got there he was working on scoping a Model 60 Marlin for somebody. But he put that aside and went through everything he'd done.

My Savage 110 7MM Rem. Mag had experienced a few failures to fire since I'd started using CCI Primers. He took the bolt apart and cleaned the inside and made some adjustments. Then he tried it out with 3 different primers and it fired with all three.

Then he worked over the trigger of my exes Model 700 ADL Sythetic .243 Win. with one of the recalled X Mark Pro Triggers. He cleaned it up and changed a spring and polished the sear and trigger. It is so much better than it was you would swear it was a different trigger. It breaks like a dry twig at about 2 1/2 pounds.

Then lastly, he took my Savage Mark II 22 LR Walmart Wonder's trigger apart and cleaned it up and did some magic on it and got it breaking about 2 pounds. Before this it was breaking at about 6-8 pounds. 2 pounds is right where Rifle Basix said it should break with that sear and the springs that came with the sear from Rifle Basix.

All this he only charged me $80 for. He usually charges $40.00 per trigger job on one gun. Not bad for working on three different guns and getting great results.

early

Time to make some gunsmoke:guns:

snake284

early wrote: »

Time to make some gunsmoke:guns:

Yeah, high time. I want to shoot that .22 tomorrow. And my 57 year old browning A5 Sweet 16.

The Browning is the one I'm really fired up about. That thing is Ultra Sweet.

I fixed the cracked forend. Tomorrow I will get a new front bead put on it.

Diver43

Good work for a more than fair rate is rare. Have fun shooting

Jeeper

He definitely treated you right!! Gotta give us some range reports now!!

Luis

Big Chief

Sounds good. Now they are fixed, get out and blast away and post a Range Report. :guns: :guns:

snake284

Big Chief wrote: »

Sounds good. Now they are fixed, get out and blast away and post a Range Report. :guns: :guns:

Yes, He is very reasonable and a damn good local gun smith. He can think through a problem and come up with a fix as fast as I ever saw anybody. He reminds me of Teach. He has a great storehouse of knowledge in his head. Every time I talk to that guy I learn something. He's not always this fast because guns are not his bread and butter, but they are his passion. But he has to make a living and that's in oil field machine work. He's very old fashion and simple. You won't see a fancy car at his shop unless it's one of his millionaire clients. He drives an old 60s vintage Chevy pickup. He has his hair cut like something out of a 60s beach movie. Pomp and flair don't tweak his string at all. But you want your gun fixed "he's da man."