Do-It-Yourself Gun Repair: Gunsmithing at Home

Do-It-Yourself Gun Repair: Gunsmithing at Home

by Edward A. Matunas
Do-It-Yourself Gun Repair: Gunsmithing at Home

Do-It-Yourself Gun Repair: Gunsmithing at Home

by Edward A. Matunas

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Overview

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 gunsmithing. Topics include:
• Hand and power tool suggestions for home gunsmithing
• Replacing firing pins, extractors, and ejectors
• Analyzing and correcting accuracy problems
• Top-notch information about bedding the barrel and bore
• Easy installation of scopes, mounts, sights, and recoil pads
• Repair of splits and cracks in stocks
• Avoiding common mistakes and time-consuming double work

A unique feature of this book is a section covering disassembly, repair, and reassembly of seven of the most popular firearms: Remington 700, Remington 1100, Remington 870, Winchester 94, Savage 110, Marlin 336, and Marlin 70. The instructions are fully illustrated with photos and drawings as well as exploded views and parts lists, and much of this information can be applied to other guns with similar actions.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781620876961
Publisher: Skyhorse
Publication date: 07/09/2013
Pages: 240
Sales rank: 903,906
Product dimensions: 8.40(w) x 9.90(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

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.

Table of Contents

Part 1An Approach to Gunsmithing in the Home Workshop
1.Does That Firearm Need Work?3
2.Can I Fix It?9
3.Hand Tools13
4.Power Tools27
5.Work Area & Special Tool Requirements31
6.Parts & Supplies41
7.Thinking Like a Gunsmith47
Part 2Basic Maintenance and Repair
8.Basic Firearms Maintenance53
9.Accuracy-How to Find Problems and Correct Them65
10.Crowning a Barrel73
11.Ten Easy Gunsmithing Projects77
12.Bedding an Action or Barrel97
13.Scope Installation103
Part 3Disassembly, Repair, and Reassembly of Popular Firearms
14.Remington 700 Bolt-Action Rifle113
15.Remington 1100 Semiautomatic Shotgun121
16.Remington 870 Pump Shotgun137
17.Winchester 94 Lever-Action Rifle147
18.Savage 110 Bolt-Action Rifle155
19.Marlin 336 Lever-Action Rifle161
20.Marlin 70 Semiautomatic Rimfire Rifle171
Part 4Advanced Techniques
21.Installing Interchangeable Choke Tubes179
22.Repairing Stock Breaks and Splits187
23.Drilling and Tapping for Sight Installation193
24.Fitting a Recoil Pad201
Part 5The Final Steps
25.Ammunition and the Gunsmith209
26.Testing the Repair221
27.Sensible Gunsmithing Alternatives225
Appendix227
Directory of Sources229
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