Using a Stock-Drilling Jig For Pillar Bedding
Pillar bedding is a proven means of improving rifle accuracy, but it must be performed with precision to be effective. Here’s how to simplify the job and eliminate costly mistakes.
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Tools & Fixtures
Disassembly and Reassembly Of the Sig Sauer P250 Pistol
The buyer has a choice of three calibers and gripframe sizes, but you can service them all in the same manner.
Dissecting the Sig Sauer Mosquito .22 Pistol
This little semi-auto forces you to know where you are, where you’re going, where you’ve been, and how to get back to where you started. And that’s only if you can get beyond the starting point.
Chamber Throat Reaming with A Precision Touch
A special throating reamer can be used to lengthen the throat or change the leade angle, resulting in greater flexibility in bullet seating and ultimately in improved accuracy.
Enhancements to the Power Series I Stoning Fixture
These simple shopmade add-ons can make an excellent tool even better, faster, and more versatile.
Micro-Lapping the Remington 700/40X Receiver Bed
The precise fit of a cylindrical rifle action in its stock bed can be improved and glass bedding may be eliminated with the simple application of this do-it-yourself bed-lapping tool.
Back-Boring the Shotgun Barrel
Today’s skeet, trap, and sporting clays shooters are convinced of the benefits of back-boring. Thus, offering back-boring as a service can, of course, benefit the gunsmith as well. Here’s how it’s done.
Making a Barrel Chamber Neck and Leade Section
A partial chamber reproduction of the neck and leade can serve a number of useful purposes for your customers. And everything you’ll need to make one may be right at your fingertips.
Make a Spring Compressor For the Remington Model 700
Disassembling and reassembling the Model 700s firing-pin assembly can be tedious and tricky. But this handy shop-made spring compressor makes the job safe, simple, and quick.
Build a Recoil-Pad Grinding and Fitting System
This do-it-yourself pad-grinding system is adjustable for a precise fit, and virtually eliminates the problem of the associated airborne dust and dirt.
Make a Trigger-Assembly Tool For the Winchester Model 12
This simple shop-made tool not only helps make a tricky job easier, it can ensure that the trigger parts don’t get damaged when putting them back in place in the action.
Using the Manson Precision Barrel-Crowning Tools
These well-thought-out tools make barrel crowning a breeze, producing a smooth chatter-free surface without the need for a lathe.
Build a Gunsmithing Library
Minutes spent doing research in your library can often save you hours of frustration at the bench. Here are some suggestions for building that library.
Those Versatile Vises
The vise is one of the most important tools on any gunsmith’s bench. With the addition of various replacement jaws and jaw covers, any vise can be made more functional and even more versatile.
In-Shop Powder Coating: A Durable, Easy-to-Apply Finish
Thanks to the introduction of do-it-your self kits, this hard-asnails industrial metal finish is now practical for in-shop application to firearms and firearm parts.
Gunstock Checkering: Beyond the Basics
Once you understand the basics and have mastered the application of simple patterns, it’s time to move ahead. Here, we’ll cover some of the more advanced skills and more involved checkering patterns.
Do-It-Yourself Receiver Wrenches And Adapters
What happens when someone brings you a jewel that no one makes a wrench for? Here are some solutions for safely dealing with barrels, without marring someone’s “pet” rifle.
Making and Using a Locking-Lug/ Bolt-Face Comparator
The exact length between the bolt face and its locking-lug camming surface is an important measurement. This precision tool takes the complication out of making that measurement.
The Improved Do-It-Yourself Barrel Vise
This simple version of the barrel vise is cheap and easy to make, and will perform as well or better than any barrel vise you can buy.
The Poor Man’s Method for Scoping Ex-Military Rifles
Here’s a quick and dirty method for drill ing and tapping any receiver for which scope bases are available that positively ensures the scope is aligned with the bore.
Making an Action Wrench For the Weatherby Mark V
This special action wrench provides a practical means of switching barrels on the Weatherby Mark V single-shot action for standard rifle cartridges.
Tech Topics
In this column, we examine new tools and tooling, tips and techniques, and news items of interest to the gunsmithing community. Kuhnhausen Does it Again
Do-It-Yourself Takedown Tools
Firearms manufacturers use various fixtures and jigs during the assembly of firearms. A few of these tools are available to the gunsmith, but most we have to invent and make ourselves.
Cutting Bedding-Pillar Holes With Precision
If you haven’t drilled a misaligned hole in a stock for pillarbedding, chances are you haven’t done much of this work. But there is a way to make a perfect hole’ and it’s easy.