NJROTC-CC
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- May 6, 2019
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I had the recoil spring guides out of my Super X Model 1’s this summer. Replaced the springs and spring followers and even invented a tool for holding the recoil spring back. I have zero training. Totally self-taught. It started when I was 5 or 6 and my grandmother gave me an alarm clock and a screw driver and I proceeded to take it apart for fun.
It is amazing to me how many clueless gun owners have never disassembled a firearm and have no idea how they even work. Not to diminish the job you did, but the customer probably could have fixed the gun himself if he any any mechanical ability or an inclination to try. The answer to almost any mechanical or gunsmithing question there is can be found on the internet, along with a how-to video.
I just got finished installing a stock ferrule and pillar bedding a commercial mauser action rifle on which I also installed a two-position safety and a Timney trigger. Leaned it all on-line. And don’t worry, I know all about sear engagement and drop on the buttstock tests, etc. So don’t tell me only a “professional gunsmith” should work on that stuff. I have a doctorate degree. So I figure I’m smart enough to learn how to work safely on my own firearms (although I would not want to work on someone else’s firearms.) But it ain’t “Rocket Appliances” as Ricky on Trailer Park Boys would say.
It is amazing to me how many clueless gun owners have never disassembled a firearm and have no idea how they even work. Not to diminish the job you did, but the customer probably could have fixed the gun himself if he any any mechanical ability or an inclination to try. The answer to almost any mechanical or gunsmithing question there is can be found on the internet, along with a how-to video.
I just got finished installing a stock ferrule and pillar bedding a commercial mauser action rifle on which I also installed a two-position safety and a Timney trigger. Leaned it all on-line. And don’t worry, I know all about sear engagement and drop on the buttstock tests, etc. So don’t tell me only a “professional gunsmith” should work on that stuff. I have a doctorate degree. So I figure I’m smart enough to learn how to work safely on my own firearms (although I would not want to work on someone else’s firearms.) But it ain’t “Rocket Appliances” as Ricky on Trailer Park Boys would say.