Anyone hear from ARMCO or Gunnar lately
- Thread starter marlin60
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I'm sure he'll be in touch with you, he's a good guy. give him a chance to have a life. - dan
- Location
- Grande Prairie, Alberta
np I always fare well with gunner
THese are the threads that make you wonder if private medical care would be the utopia some would have us believe.LOL.
Seriously though be patient, never in the history of mankind has a good armourer/smith been at the beck and call of the common man.
Seriously though be patient, never in the history of mankind has a good armourer/smith been at the beck and call of the common man.
True. but if he hires help the prices go up, and then we'll all ##### about that. Seriously, gunsmith time doesn't work the way regular time does. If a 'smith says "three months", think six months. It's kind of like house renos, but not as extreme. - dan
- Location
- Southern Ontario
marlin60 said:
This is everyone's same story with Gunnar. It's tough to be so popular but there must be a reason. Lemme see. Oh, I got it! Everything I buy from him actually works properly! If he wasn't married. And if I weren't married. Well. You know.
Seriously... Gunnar is at times tough to get hold of and may seem to be ignoring you but he is not. He is just swamped (see his website, he doesn't even do 'communications' on two days a week).
So. I have bought several guns from Gunnar over the past several months, have paid him in advance for each one, have waited for the paperwork to get processed (keep in mind it takes a couple of extra days AFTER you get it for him to get it as he is in the sticks, right?). And then he either ships it that day or within a few days. Sometimes up to a week. (Rarely). But, it does get shipped. And generally by the time my blood pressure is starting to climb from fear that he has headed south in retirement, the package shows up on my doorstep and I am yet again amazed at receiving a quality piece of kit that has been gone over by a gunsmith.
Gunnar, so far, to me, has been a great guy to deal with.
Cocked&Locked
CGN Ultra frequent flyer
- Location
- S. Ontario
I waited about 7 months to get a barrel set back on a 629 and have the endshake removed from the cylinder, and to have him tune up a norc commander in 45 for me. Long wait, yes, often hard to catch, yes (but when he did catch up he was polite and apologetic) but when the pistols arrived, wow, bloody top notch work, barrel gap moved from 13 thou(!!) to 3, shoots like a dream with no shaving and locks up tighter then a drum. The trigger in the norc commander makes the one in my springfield loaded look like (feel like) absolute crap, I've never felt a 1911 trigger like this except in a Les Bauer (?) 38 super target gun....... It'd be nice to get more information on when the gun would show up, or have a firm date when you absolutly KNOW it will be done, but the fact that the workmanship is so damn good is worth it......
If he'd just offer me a job for a year or two I would open up my own shop here in ontario .......... it's a crappy time to be an unemployed tool and die maker.....
If he'd just offer me a job for a year or two I would open up my own shop here in ontario .......... it's a crappy time to be an unemployed tool and die maker.....
