A guy I know is taking the gunsmithing course from Pennfoster Career School.

He enrolls, pays a fee, and they send him a work packet.

He does the work and mails  back the completed written tests and projects.

Are these courses beneficial to an aspiring gunsmith? Has anyone here taken one?

I know this type of correspondence course does not compare to going to a brick and mortar trade school, but would a course like the one linked below
give the student enough training to get them started as a part time gunsmith?

http://www.pennfoster.edu/gunsmith/

If you are bored and have exhausted all other leisure activities and learning gunsmithing entertains you, it's worth it.

If you are planning on earning money at gunsmithing, you need a CT scan.

If you're not running a mill, lathe and grinder, you're just assembling parts, not gunsmithing.

You'd be better off buying a hacksaw, dremmel and a black sharpie, and watching youtube videos on how to gunsmith

98% of gunsmithing can be self taught with good online resources or books. It's 80% simple machining/woodworking and 20% understanding mechanics.

This.  Also include learning how to take a plank of wood and carving it into a gunstock.

 

I didn't see Dremel listed in those tools...

WECSOG.  Been awhile since I've seen that.  I don't spend as much time in the tech forum as I used to.