Hello!
Thanks for being snoopy enough to check this post out!
Here's a little history on myself.
I've always been in a hunting/fishing/camping family. I first started tagging along with my Father and older brother on hunts going back to the first grade. I remember learning how to handload for rifles as early as 3rd grade. I took my first big game animal at age 11, with a .243 I own to this day, with ammo I had handloaded under my Fathers watchful eye. I hope to instil these same values in my Children and in my Children's Children.
Why M-14's?
As you can probably tell, I have always been into firearms. When I turned 16 I applied for and received a FAC (yes the old system pre-Bill C-68). I am 13 days too young to have a 12-6, as I was not able to purchase a pistol until I was 18yrs old. When the "failed LGR" came into effect I registered 11 firearms.
In 2009 I bought my first M-14 pattern rifle, a 2007 M-305. From the first I was hooked! I gobbled up every thing I could find online, as well as gathering an extensive library of written works by Jerry Kuhnhausen, Scott Duff et-al. I slowly amassed quite a selection of tools that are M-14 specific. Late last year I realized that I was completely comfortable will all things M-14/M1A and Garand. I also noticed that there did not seem to be anyone "filling the void" in Canada in regards to M-14 rifles. There are several smiths and shops out there willing to do this or that, but no one stop shop that could do-all with a M-14/M1A here in Canada. I am not sure I fill the roll as a "one stop shop" but what I can't do, I hire out to professionals much better at the small jobs than I am!
I didn't feel comfortable just "hanging a shingle" as a M-14 "pro". It's one thing for me to work on my own rifle, quite another to work on a rifle for a stranger who may have a family of their own! I didn't feel that it was right to put myself out there as a "pro" unless I had something to back me up. I took an American Gunsmithing Institute on-line course called "M-14 & M1A Armourer". I have registered my Company with the corporations branch of Saskatchewan, Informed Revenue Canada of my Sole-Proprietorship business, purchased an insurance policy (through my local broker) and finally registered myself with the CFP.
At first I was trying to keep things low-key. I have a day-job, I do this part-time evenings and weekends. I am not trying to get rich doing this, just trying to off-set the rising cost of my "addiction"! I started out at my local gun-shows. 2-3 tables, hawking rifles I'd tuned, misc. parts and generally just trying to get the word out about myself. It actually kinda worked! I've been getting a steady diet of work since the winter of '16. I finally decided to "pay-up" and become a site sponsor. I've done enough work "off this board" that I felt it was only fair to pony-up..... The fact I got a bit of a jab in the ribs from the mod's, notwithstanding, it was going to happen anyway, just happened a bit sooner than I planned!
I located in Regina SK
See the website for more info.
Feel free to call/text or email any questions or comments etc!
Post a thread with questions or comments, I endeavour to answer any and all correspondence!
John
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Originally Posted by kolumbo69
