Gunsmithing Made Easy; Projects for the Home Gunsmith

Towsley, Bryce M.

ISBN 10: 0883172941 / ISBN 13: 9780883172940

Published by Stoeger Publishing Company, Accokeek, Maryland, 2006

About this Item

158 pages. Oversized book, measuring 10-1/2 inches by 8-1/4 inches. Includes chapters on The Gunsmith's Shop, How We Learn, Cleaning & Maintenance, Enhancing Accuracy, "Pimp My Rifle'', An Excuse for a New Rifle, and Index. Bryce M. Towsley is an unrepentant gun nut and is an avid, world-traveling hunter. He competes in several shooting disciplines, including 3-gun, IDPA and USPSA. As a full time writer for decades, Towsley has published hundreds of articles in most of the major outdoor and gun magazines and is listed as field editor in several of the top . This book is a guide to beginning--and successfully completing-many essential firearms repairs and modifications. These tasks can be performed by a gun enthusiast with average skills, affordable tools, and a modest budget. Thorough, step-by-step instructions and detailed photographs provide the know-how to tune, modify, and repair many popular firearms. From the use of essential gunsmithing tools, to tips on fitting sights and bedding barrels, this book provides the inside information you need to "do it yourself." The author is an award-winning writer and photographer, and the author of five books on guns, gunsmithing, and hunting. A must have for anybody interested in guns. Towsley's easy reading narrative style mixed with his trademark humor makes this the first "instructional" gunsmithing book that will find itself on a lot of bedside nightstands. This book uses an easy and fun to read approach coupled with hundreds of color photographs that will teach you how to do a wide variety of hobby gunsmithing projects. This book tells how to set up a shop anyplace, from a kitchen table to a stand alone building. It explains about the tools hobby gunsmiths use; what you need and what you don't. It will show you how to amaze your shooting friends and make them think you are an accuracy wizard. Everything is included from entry level projects to how to build your own rifle with simple inexpensive tools. Improve accuracy, refinish metal or wood, make an old rifle look sexy and exciting and so much more. Everything is covered, from mounting a scope to building your own rifle:? Setting up a shop, including tools you need: ? Proper cleaning and maintenance ? Mounting a scope ? More than a dozen projects, ranging from installing a recoil pad to cutting off a barrel ? Enhancing accuracy, includes crowning a barrel, bedding a stock and much more ? "Pimp My Rifle," an easy and inexpensive "Total Makeover" ? Build your own rifle ? Metal finishing ? And more!

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Gunsmithing Made Easy; Projects for the Home Gunsmith
• Publisher: Stoeger Publishing Company, Accokeek, Maryland
• Publication Date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0883172941
• ISBN 13: 9780883172940
• Binding: Decorated Hard Cover
• Illustrator: Bryce M. Towsley
• Edition: Presumed First Edition, First printing.
• Condition: Very good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Training
  • Guns

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Synopsis

Gunsmithing Made Easy provides readers with the information hobbyists need to perform many common, practical repairs and modifications on today’s firearms. Precisely illustrated, step-by-step instructions walk the hobby gunsmith through useful projects to improve the looks, accuracy and performance of popular hunting rifles and shotguns. Any enthusiast with average skills, affordable tools, and a modest budget will enjoy this instructive handbook.

Projects include installing and adjusting a trigger, fixing common accuracy problems, improving an injection-molded stock, installing a recoil pad, and much, much more! Not only will readers enjoy performing these projects, they will also learn about the tools and skills needed to perform basic and advanced gunsmithing tasks—from basic tools such as screwdrivers, punches and files to more advanced tools including drill presses, sanders and lathes. Gunsmithing Made Easy offers anyone interested in working on their own firearms the key information that will get them started in this exciting and rewarding hobby.

About the Author

Bryce M. Towsley is the author of several books on hunting and shooting and an accomplished outdoor photographer. He is a hunting consultant and booking agent for a variety of North American game species. Towsley is field editor for NRA's American Rifleman, modern rifle and handgun editor for Buckmasters, and a regular contributor to Guns & Gear and North American Hunter. He is revising editor and contributor for the 3rd edition of Stoeger's classic Handloader's Manual of Cartridge Conversion. Towsley makes his home in North Clarendon, Vermont.