Del Selin Gunsmith Ltd
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Ironballsmahoney
CGN Regular
- Location
- B.C. Southern Interior
I haven't taken anything there for smithing as of yet but the shop is the last of the old school army surplus style shops left in Canada. If I ever have a spare half an hour while on my way home to Kelowna, my brother's and I will pop in just to hear the banter and hopefully find something before the recent price change happens haha.
Our favorite thing to look at is the list of items that they will NOT work on! I understand why for some of them but others... I wanna hear the story! Del's store will always hold a fond place in our hearts.
Our favorite thing to look at is the list of items that they will NOT work on! I understand why for some of them but others... I wanna hear the story! Del's store will always hold a fond place in our hearts.
I know better then to bad mouth on the interweb, the guy just pissed me off a long time ago.I just have high standards for people referring to themselves as gunsmiths. Was fortunate to know one of the best . A man in Kamloops that passed away years ago that I was proud to call my friend. A true precision craftsman and barrel maker.
One of my favorite things in there was when Grouse River and Wholesale Sports were open in Kelowna. Del would post their flyers with his prices beside theirs ( usually lower) and take great delight in pointing it out to us. And guess who's still standing!
The "guns we don't work on" sheets are new I think... classic.
The "guns we don't work on" sheets are new I think... classic.
The first time I saw him toss a brass brush on the floor and roll it under his shoe I just about pissed my pants laughing.
I still use that brush and a cotton patch wrapped around it.
Best $2.95 I ever spent, just for the performance
- Location
- East ontario
Wholesale sports was brought out by big rock.
Big Rock is about to go bankrupt in canada
Add me to that list. In the early 2000’s I bought a new stainless/laminate Remington 700 chambered in 338 Ultra Mag from Wholesale Sports in Calgary along with two boxes of Remington 250 grain A-Frame ammo. I was living in BC at the time. No matter how hard or how soft one racked the bolt, it wouldn’t eject shells. They would hit the rear receiver bridge and pop back into the action and lay on top of the rounds in the magazine so if you tried to close the bolt now you’d be trying to load two shells. Wholesale asked me to send it to the nearest Remington warranty center asked me to send it to Del as he was a Remington warranty center.
Three months later I got it it back. It looked like he had taken a die grinder (certainly wasn’t a milling machine) and ground away an area about the size of half a nickel from the rear side of the ejection port. A three year old could have done a better job with a Dremel tool. Just to keep an open mind, I loaded the mag and tried cycling the action and now when the rear of the shell popped free of the feed rails, the rear of the shell popped out of the new gap in the rear of the ejection port and the front of the shell remained in the ejection port pinned by the bolt just back of the shoulder every time. I called Del to ask him what the had done to the rifle and asked if Remington had actually approved of this repair, only to have him tell me he thought I would never be satisfied. He was right in that I am not one to be satisfied with sub-Bubba work.
I called Wholesale again and they asked me to send the rifle to their preferred Remington warranty center in Maliag, AB, which I did. I was subsequently advised that pics of the modification had been sent to Remington who advised that no such modification to my action had been approved by Remington. Long story short, the entire action had to be replaced.
Do yourself a very big favour and NEVER under any circumstances take any of your firearms for Del Selin to work on. And don’t take your kid’s trike there either…
Wow!
Do you have any pictures of the "gunsmithing work" by any chance ?
Please post em up if you do
Have seen both sides of Del.
I have spent a good chunk of change there, several of my guns came from him.
I believe in being fair and he has done me some good turns in the past but my last experience soured me to the point I cannot return (product sales on this occasion - not gunsmithing).
I will leave it there. YMMV.
I have spent a good chunk of change there, several of my guns came from him.
I believe in being fair and he has done me some good turns in the past but my last experience soured me to the point I cannot return (product sales on this occasion - not gunsmithing).
I will leave it there. YMMV.
It was.
Mick McPhee
Ive been to the shop lots and many experiences, However always understood it as a gun store, let alone a custom gun shop.
while as old and brash as he is never steered a guy wrong with any ill intent. stuck in his ways has old school and been very successful. having said I would dare dream of bringing him a custom to work on.
while as old and brash as he is never steered a guy wrong with any ill intent. stuck in his ways has old school and been very successful. having said I would dare dream of bringing him a custom to work on.
Ya MickMick McPhee
