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Posted: 12/30/2011 6:19:51 PM EDT
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Looking for a good school either in the Louisiana area or online.
Links if ya got em |
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Here's the real gunsmithing schools.
The online "schools" are designed to separate you and your money. The mail order schools are at best a way to learn a few basics that will allow you to work on your own guns. They will NOT prepare you to be a real working gunsmith. The best real schools are Colorado School of Trades and Trinidad Junior College, but several of the others do have excellent reputations. Piedmont and Montgomery in North Carolina are good. Colorado School of Trades 1575 Hoyt Street Lakewood, CO 80215 Phone: 800-234-4594 Lassen Community College P.O. Box 3000 Susanville, CA 96130 Phone: 530-257-4211 Modern Gun School 80 North Main Street, P.O. Box 846 St. Albans, VT 05478 Phone: 800-493-4114 Montgomery Community College 1011 Page Street P.O. Box 787 Troy, NC 27371 Phone: 800-839-6222 Murray State College One Murray Campus Tishomingo, OK 73460 Phone: 580-371-2371 Pennsylvania Gunsmith School 812 Ohio River Blvd. Avalon Pittsburgh, PA 15202 Phone: 412-766-1812 Piedmont Community College 1715 College Drive P.O. Box 1197 Roxboro, NC 27573 Phone: 336-599-1181 Pine Technical Institute 900 4th Street Pine City, MN 55063 Phone: 800-521-7463 Trinidad State Jr. College 600 Prospect Trinidad, CO 81082 Phone: 800-621-8752 Yavapai College 1100 East Sheldon Street Prescott, AZ 86301 Phone: 520-776-2150 |
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Truth is, there's much you can learn on your own or with a little help and advice, even on line advice, but you have to get your hands into the job and do something. This afternoon I finished the sanding phase of restoring an old Martini stock that was so bad when I started, I dug out my cabinet maker's file to get the forearm squared away, sandpaper wasn't cutting the program.
I had it sanded to 320 grit, raised the grain and cut the fuzz off with a fresh piece of 320, two times, and applied stain. It's going to be fantastic. Talk your family into giving you a week or two at one of the NRA summer sessions . I can tell you from first hand experience that the classes at Trinidad are worthwhile and an outstanding value. A friend of mine spent 3 weeks of his summers at Tishomingo for several years, and I would have to call him a competent gunsmith. If I can get my computer to stop stalling I'll add more information later. Basic link: http://www.nragunsmithing.com/ The 2012 schedule at Trinidad is published now, the rest are harder to predict. The upper right photo in the link is the main shop at Trinidad. Tell me where you can get access to a shop like this elsewhere for just a handfull of dollars. |
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Truth is, there's much you can learn on your own or with a little help and advice, even on line advice, but you have to get your hands into the job and do something. This afternoon I finished the sanding phase of restoring an old Martini stock that was so bad when I started, I dug out my cabinet maker's file to get the forearm squared away, sandpaper wasn't cutting the program. I had it sanded to 320 grit, raised the grain and cut the fuzz off with a fresh piece of 320, two times, and applied stain. It's going to be fantastic. Talk your family into giving you a week or two at one of the NRA summer sessions . I can tell you from first hand experience that the classes at Trinidad are worthwhile and an outstanding value. A friend of mine spent 3 weeks of his summers at Tishomingo for several years, and I would have to call him a competent gunsmith. If I can get my computer to stop stalling I'll add more information later. Basic link: http://www.nragunsmithing.com/ The 2012 schedule at Trinidad is published now, the rest are harder to predict. The upper right photo in the link is the main shop at Trinidad. Tell me where you can get access to a shop like this elsewhere for just a handfull of dollars. very good info for what its worth,im apprenticing/partners with a friend who builds custom muzzle loaders. i have a long way to go in learning....ill be taking some classes this spring. |
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No such thing as a good on line gunsmith school. I've never heard of a school in Louisiana, but it's possible. I think Brownell's has a list of schools nationwide. The school nearest you is probably in Tishomingo, Oklahoma. thats where I graduated from good program when I went |
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Here's the real gunsmithing schools. The online "schools" are designed to separate you and your money. The mail order schools are at best a way to learn a few basics that will allow you to work on your own guns. They will NOT prepare you to be a real working gunsmith. The best real schools are Colorado School of Trades and Trinidad Junior College, but several of the others do have excellent reputations. Piedmont and Montgomery in North Carolina are good. in that list of "Best" I would include Murray State...lots of good to great smith got their start there |
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