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DirtyWolf

DirtyWolf

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Click on the bottom left tab on movie screen,
and select "Professional Certified Courses"
Watch 30 sec intro then select "Professional Gunsmithing"
Then click on " What's in the Master Gunsmithing Course"

Watch this video and tell me what you think of this course. It costs $7000.00 but I'm thinking it just might be worth it. The thing is, I've got $6000.00 left in my Canadian Trust Fund that I can still use. I can't attend a college as I'm working and have a wife and two little girls to take care of. I'm working on getting the school approved and recognized by the canadian system, and they assured me that it shouldn't be a problem. So all I'd have to dish out out of my pocket would be $1000.00 or so.

Have any of you done this course..?
Consists of Gunsmithing, Machining and Welding.
Haven't really got anything to loose I guess..
 
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Didn't watch the complete video but that is alot of coin for a correspondence course. Can you do night courses for machining? I'd be more inclined to do that and buy books on whatever areas of gunsmithing I would be interested in and spend a majority of the money on tooling.
Try a search of this site I think you will find quite a few threads about AGI
 
I'd only have to pay $1000.00 or so.. The Machinist course isn't offered in Labrador, I'd have to move to Newfoundland and do it full time, but that I can't. I can't spend schooling money on tools and books, it has to be a registered school. I do also plan on buying quite a few books and tools from Brownells and Grizzly with my own money eventually.
 
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Save your money. You can't learn to be a smithy from a video or by correspondence. The biggest problem with either is that you need an example of whatever firearm the lesson is about. That gets expensive, fast.
"...costs $7000.00..." USD. $7,272.30Cdn, as of today. If it was a recognised school(AGI is in the business of selling videos. You'll note they don't say who 'certify's' their customers.) in Canada, it'd be plus GST and PST.
"...buying quite a few books..." Expensive these days. Look in your public library first.
 
I totally agree that "You can't learn to be a smithy from a video or by correspondence".. but I have nothing to save the money for, there's no other way I can use it. Like I stated, I cannot relocate and attend school because I have a family. Our library is a joke, well for my use anyways, they don't have anything related. Yes I am aware there is an exchange rate and HST taxes. The way I look at it is at least I'll have some additional knowledge of good to know things that would help me get started before I hit the books. If it's certified by someone or no one special at all, at least I'll have some good material to go back on whenever I like.. Someday I would like to do a Machinist course but it wouldn't be anytime soon, gotta start somewhere... can't wait forever...

sunray.. Have you or anyone you know of taken this course or just watched the armorer's videos?
 
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I totally agree that "You can't learn to be a smithy from a video or by correspondence".. but I have nothing to save the money for, there's no other way I can use it. Like I stated, I cannot relocate and attend school because I have a family. Our library is a joke, well for my use anyways, they don't have anything related. Yes I am aware there is an exchange rate and HST taxes. The way I look at it is at least I'll have some additional knowledge of good to know things that would help me get started before I hit the books. If it's certified by someone or no one special at all, at least I'll have some good material to go back on whenever I like.. Someday I would like to do a Machinist course but it wouldn't be anytime soon, gotta start somewhere... can't wait forever...

sunray.. Have you or anyone you know of taken this course or just watched the armorer's videos?
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The armorer courses teach you about the function and the disassembly/assembly of the firearm in question. There isn't much in the way of modifications. You do acquire an initial understanding of that firearm, but without a visual inspection and repeating the process yourself, retaining the information may not be so easy. They have how to type video's as well for metal finishing and metal work. Trigger jobs etc. Try checking the thread in my post above and acquiring some of the video's online. Maybe for a firearm that you already own. See how that goes.
 
i tried to buy a video from AGI a few years back. They told me they won't ship outside the USA. So i downloaded it for free.
 
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