When I was looking for a competent gunsmith I used Facebook and got on my cities FB community page. I was able to find a pretty good gunsmith fast to cut a barrel for me. Granted this was from the same guy being recommended over and over. Samething the OP is doing here just more centralized to their area.
I'll second this - quick turnaround at a great price
My local guy says “I’m about 8-10 months out, but just dropped it off and I’ll try and work it in.
Yeah sounds like all the local construction guys here in NW FL. "I'm working on a million dollar home. I'm X months out" then you see them on the local FB pages two weeks later whining that they don't have enough work.My local guy says “I’m about 8-10 months out, but just dropped it off and I’ll try and work it in.
I’m building comp rifles for people all over the country.”
I've had local smith deny me work on my Howa Mini too. The main reason is because they didn't want to do a relief cut in the barrel to have the barrel removed. Utter laziness in my opinion.
Cut and crown only or do you want it threaded? Brownells sells the hand tools to crown a barrel if you have any interest in doing it yourself and aren’t looking to have it threaded.
Cut and crown only.
No need for a gunsmith there -- literally any machinist can handle that.
It's really not hard to do yourself...
Looking at doing the same to mine. If you don't mind me asking, what's the ballpark price to get that done?
I had a 24" 308 barrel I wanted cut to 18" and threaded for a can. I called a local gunsmith wanting to support the locals as much as possible. When I asked about it he told me "a 308 will shoot terrible with that short of a barrel" and "you'll lose a bunch of accuracy".....that was when I decided to find someone else
