The Gunsmith Thread

THParent said:
I put a $78.00 gas tube in an AR-15 today. That's plus $30 for labor, so the guy paid $108.00 for a gas tube.
It was an extra-special gas tube for "extreme environments" made by some company named "V-Seven".

Absolute stupidity. Gas tubes are $8.00. People never cease to amaze me.
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I just looked at their website. $781 for a lower & upper. $63 for a dust cover. A guy would need to spend thousands to assemble a gun from this place. And this guy would need to pay you to do the build on top of all that!

I just got my ATF Form 1 tax stamp approved this morning for a suppressor build. Took only 3 weeks, and it was approved on a Sunday morning! I was shocked about the quick turnaround. It cost me less than $200 for the parts, and that includes quite a bit of titanium. Can't wait to start drilling holes now that I can legally do so.
 
Schmuck brings in an AR-15 and leaves it for me to zero his crappy $40 reflex (red dot) sight he put on top (incorrectly, I might add) with instructions to call him before I perform the work so that he may explain to me how he wants it co-witnessed between his crappy plastic flip-up iron sights (which he also didn't put on right, because the front one was on backwards.)

So of course, I mount the thing and zero it on the range, then call him. He says "Is it done already?", and I say "well, it says on the work order that I'm supposed to call you before I do anything, so that you can explain to me what the term co-witness means, apparently".

He responds with "well maybe I have been reading too much and..." so I just stopped him right there and said "Yes you have. It's done. You can pick it up today if you like. I attached the target to the work order."
 
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THParent said:
Schmuck brings in an AR-15 and leaves it for me to zero his crappy $40 reflex (red dot) sight he put on top (incorrectly, I might add) with instructions to call him before I perform the work so that he may explain to me how he wants it co-witnessed between his crappy plastic flip-up iron sights (which he also didn't put on right, because the front one was on backwards.)

So of course, I mount the thing and zero it on the range, then call him. He says "Is it done already?", and I say "well, it says on the work order that I'm supposed to call you before I do anything, so that you can explain to me what the term co-witness means, apparently".

He responds with "well maybe I have been reading too much and..." so I just stopped him right there and said "Yes you have. It's done. You can pick it up today if you like. I attached the target to the work order."
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The guy was 21 years old, and I built my first M-16 in 1980.
20 years before he was born. ;)
 
This one had lint, fingernails, glitter, chewing gum, a dead cockroach, and what appeared to be grass or some other organic detritus.
Not surprisingly, It wasn't working (for some reason) when the customer dropped it off.
Yes, it is a Hi-Point.

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Just like how some people treat their cars.

One of the biggest reasons I like my guns is that I enjoy taking them apart to see how they work and to clean and lube them. But many people are just totally non-mechanical and could care less.
 
DW and I went out for drinks Sat. night with a Marine buddy and his DW, at some point firearms became a topic of conversation and he expressed a desire to add an AR to his collection, so I offered that we go through my parts collection, he stopped over Sunday evening and went home with something he built himself. So, looks like there will be a range day this weekend.
 
Dad_2024 said:
Hi point of your day, I see what you did there! 🤣
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I briefly had one of those Hi Point 9mm carbines. Somebody had taken off the sights so I bought an optic of some sort and couldn't hit the paper at 25 feet. My son was home and I thought he would throw it down range. I took the glass off and did a few rounds of point and shoot which was a little better. I put it up for sale and got what I paid for it.

They get good reviews compared to the Hi Point pistol but mine wasn't worth a flip.
 
Devil Doc said:
I briefly had one of those Hi Point 9mm carbines. Somebody had taken off the sights so I bought an optic of some sort and couldn't hit the paper at 25 feet. My son was home and I thought he would throw it down range. I took the glass off and did a few rounds of point and shoot which was a little better. I put it up for sale and got what I paid for it.

They get good reviews compared to the Hi Point pistol but mine wasn't worth a flip.
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Every now and then I consider trying one just to compare it to the reviews, your review of the carbine tells me all I need to know.
 
It reminded me of the MP-5 which is fun and a bad little firearm but there was no comparison.
 
I wore a Dad Joke Champion t shirt awhile back to see my grandsons. I told them what it said and meant.

"I have the best jokes."

My 4 year old without batting an eye said, "Tell me one."

I couldn't think of an appropriate joke to save my life. The 6 year old ran off and got a joke book and we sat there and I read them for 15 minutes.
 
THParent said:
This one had lint, fingernails, glitter, chewing gum, a dead cockroach, and what appeared to be grass or some other organic detritus.
Not surprisingly, It wasn't working (for some reason) when the customer dropped it off.
Yes, it is a Hi-Point.

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That thing looks like it was either stuck in a couch cushion at a frat house, or abdominal carried without a holster for a while. Yuck!
 
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