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December 2013

December 2013 cover — Gunsmith Magazine, The American Gunsmith Archive

Issue 12

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7 articles · 28 pages

Page 5

New Books

Charles J. Moore, owner of The Appalachian Rifle Shop, manufactures custom, large-bore muzzleloader barrels. He found that few of his customers really understood the process that goes into the machining operations required to create a rifle barrel. To…

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Pages 6–10

Maintaining The Ruger GP100

The design of this revolver makes it probably one of the strongest medium frame revolvers ever made.

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Pages 11–12

Revisiting Gain Twist, Part Two

Historical precedents for gain twist barrels and more urban legends.

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Pages 13–17

A Savage Attack On An Old Shotgun, Part Two

Custom metal work on the Savage/Stevens 311.

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Pages 18–22

The Raven’s Consequences

One man’s contemplation of what once was and what is.

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Pages 23–24

Model K10 High Standard Shotgun Open Rear Sight

A customer’s shotgun was hitting a foot low and a few inches left at 50 yards. Here’s how I fixed it.

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Pages 25–26

Reader Forum

Here is what he told us: The problem isn’t the bolt stop. It’s the bolt stop release. Needle nose pliers and a tweaking of the release inward or outward is the cure. That’s all there is to it,…

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In This Collection

  1. New Books p. 2
  2. Maintaining The Ruger GP100 pp. 3-7
  3. Revisiting Gain Twist, Part Two pp. 8-9
  4. A Savage Attack On An Old Shotgun, Part Two pp. 10-14
  5. The Raven’s Consequences pp. 15-19
  6. Model K10 High Standard Shotgun Open Rear Sight pp. 20-21
  7. Reader Forum pp. 23-24
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