Do-It-Yourself Gun Repair Gunsmithing at Home

Name: Do-It-Yourself Gun Repair Gunsmithing at Home
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ISBN: 9781620876961

ISBN-10: 1620876965

ISBN-13: 9781620876961

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Authors: Edward A. Matunas

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Diagnose and repair a broad selection of popular hunting firearms in the convenience of your home workshop and save money, too. Do-It-Yourself Gun Repair is an authoritative guide to maintaining, repairing, and improving rifles, shotguns, and handguns. Many of the repairs professional gunsmiths make involve replacing broken or worn parts, and you’ll learn to identify and correct these common problems quickly, safely, and easily by following the detailed instructions and illustrations of gunsmithing expert Edward A. Matunas.Matunas teaches the home gunsmith a wide variety of repairs with easy-to-understand directions and solid, step-by-step advice based on his many years of professional…

Book details

List price: $19.95
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing Company, Incorporated
Publication date: 7/9/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 240
Size: 8.50" wide x 10.00" long x 0.80" tall
Weight: 1.848
Language: English

Edward A. Matunas has been shooting, hunting, and involved with guns since he was a young boy. He was a practicing gunsmith for twelve years, a director of a ballistics laboratory, a designer of reloading tools, and a national sales manager for Winchester-Western. He is currently a freelance writer, having penned hundreds of articles and four books.



Introduction


Acknowledgments



An Approach to Gunsmithing in the Home Workshop



Does That Firearm Need Work?



Can I Fix It?



Hand Tools



Power Tools



Work Area & Special Tool Requirements



Parts & Supplies



Thinking Like a Gunsmith



Basic Maintenance and Repair



Basic Firearms Maintenance



Accuracy-How to Find Problems and Correct Them



Crowning a Barrel



Ten Easy Gunsmithing Projects



Bedding an Action or Barrel



Scope Installation



Disassembly, Repair, and Reassembly of Popular Firearms



Remington 700 Bolt-Action Rifle



Remington 1100 Semi-automatic Shotgun



Remington 870 Pump Shotgun



Winchester Model 94 Lever-Action Rifle



Savage 110 Bolt-Action Rifle



Marlin 336 Lever-Action Rifle



Marlin 70 Semi-automatic Rimfire Rifle



Advanced Techniques



Installing Interchangeable Choke Tubes



Repairing Stock Breaks and Splits



Drilling and Tapping for Sight Installation



Fitting a Recoil Pad



The Final Steps



Ammunition and the Gunsmith



Testing the Repair



Sensible Gunsmithing Alternatives


Appendix


Directory of Sources