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Am I ready???

SilentKnightSilentKnight Member Posts: 2,607 ✭✭✭✭✭
edited December 2003 in General Discussion
Do yall think I ready to work at gunshop, or work for a gunsmith, with the current amount of knowledge I have about firearms?
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  • kingjoeykingjoey Member Posts: 8,636
    edited November -1
    Uhh....errrrr.....mmmmmmm....no

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  • tapwatertapwater Member Posts: 10,336 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    You say "at" and "for"...If someone will take you under their wing,what better place to learn???

    The early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese.
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  • hawkeye6020hawkeye6020 Member Posts: 2,517 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    if you have to ask a bunch of people you don't know then the answer is NO!!!!
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  • dotcom_guy30dotcom_guy30 Member Posts: 2,572 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    nope [:D][:D][:D]

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  • n/an/a Member Posts: 168,427 ✭
    edited November -1
    Have you handmade any gun parts? or do you just exchange the parts?

    How many guns can you dissasemble and re-assemble?

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  • FrancFFrancF Member Posts: 35,279 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    SilentKnight

    When ya put that new barrel on the AR- ya going to use a torque wrench? [:D][?]

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  • mark christianmark christian Member Posts: 24,443 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Will you have access to a computer and the Gun Broker forums during your work hours in order to post your questions for a quick answer? Take a look at some of the folks here on GB; There are many members who hardly ask any firearms related questions at all (when was the last time JudgeColt asked a firearms question?) but answer hundreds and many members like Kimberkid, ICONOCLAST, RancheroPaul, ect., are solictied specifically for their opinions on certain firearms subjects. What catagory of GB members do you fit into in this mix? Unless you are planning on running your own gun business just knowing the basics about firearms will get you through the day in an average gun shop (like the one I started out in decades ago). When push comes to shove just be sure you know who to go to at the shop for the right answer! Working for a gun smith is a whole different matter due to liabilty.

    Mark T. Christian
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  • SilentKnightSilentKnight Member Posts: 2,607 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Have you handmade any gun parts? or do you just exchange the parts?

    How many guns can you dissasemble and re-assemble?



    No parts, Ive done some custom paint jobs. I can completely dissasemble an AR15 execpt the barrel, because I dont have the right tools. I can also take apart Glocks, and Berettas. But thats about all that I have hands on experiance with.
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  • plains scoutplains scout Member Posts: 4,563
    edited November -1
    Don't let the posts here depress you. If it is what you really want to do it, work as an apprentice under a master for awhile and see if you really like it.
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  • WarbirdsWarbirds Member Posts: 16,943 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    If I were you I might try to work for free on weekends or evenings with you're local gunsmith. After about a year of doing that you should be pretty well rounded in the day to day life of a gunsmith with plenty of room to learn more. Then whatever you do once this guy teaches you everything he knows about his craft, don't open your own shop down the road from him and become his competition. Just my thoughts on it. Mark Christian is right, lots of these guys have an incredible knowledge of everything firearms related. I wouldn't want to risk the food on my table until I could "hang" with those guys. I would have to say, more often then not, I'm one of the guys on the board just here to B.S. not here to tell anyone how to go about fixing guns. I also come here to ask those guys questions though and I must say I have never been steered in the wrong direction with a firearms question on the board. I could work at a gunshop that sells all the current stuff, I know most the newer models, I am pretty familiar with ballistics, and can point people in the right direction in those fields (most of the time). But tearing down triggers and working them over, blue printing actions, air gauging barrels, that stuff is nothing short of an art. And like every trade worth knowing it takes years to master. I think I just said what everyone else did with a much longer answer...

    R/

    Dave


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