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dakotadog

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Hello all,
I am just looking at doing some gunsmith courses and everything that I see is now all on line. Has anyone taken the time to do any of these on line courses and if they did was it worth the money? What courses did you take? Just looking for some feed back to help with a decision.
 
LoL @ on line cources for ANYTHING. Hands on is the only way to go. Either learn to speak French and learn it in a Quebec collage or move to The USA and take it in collage there.
Alternatively you can become a machinist and use your applied knowledge
 
the weakness of taking an online course is that you probably do not have a lot of variety in the guns available for you to study with. The gunsmithing school in Quebec is reported to have a large collection of all manner of guns so that you can become familiar with stripping and reassembling them as well as what the various parts look like. Just learning how a wide variety of guns are disassembled and reassembled as well as learning how the various parts function together on a wide variety of makes and models is a critical part to repairing guns. As mentioned earlier, machining skills is extremely useful. On antique and obsolete guns, often you have to make your own parts. I am not a gunsmith but I do collect and repair antique guns and often have to make screws and nipples on the lathe, which I also use for rebarreling and chambering.

cheers mooncoon
 
I liken online cources to playing first person shooter video games and airsoft and then claiming to be a navy seal. I read through one of those cource books and I have already done FAR more than they teach, yet I do not call myself a gun smith. I'm simply not qualified to do so.

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Thanks for the input, as learning french is not really in the cards and neither is moving to the states to take a course, I am trying to get a feel. As for a library of guns to work on I have access to a huge library of guns and as such would like to get some information on it. I do know that going in person would be much better but with a family and job it cant happen right now.
 
Well for what it costs you it could be considered to be a special interest cource, entertainment if you will. The diploma they provide you with however isn't worth the paper its printed on and qualifies you to do absolutely nada at a gun shop.
If you want to learn for your own personal interest to clean and maintain your own equipment, perhaps build a kit gun than that's really all it provides.
 
Threading barrels for choke tubes, drilling and tapping for iron sights are a thing of the past. All new guns have scope mounts already and iron sites are obsolete, 99% of shotguns come with threaded choke tubes and shortening a barrel thus necessitating rethreading necessitates more than a hacksaw and a vice....also a registered gun smith certificate and business license to go below 18 1/2"
The likely hood of someone coming to you with their BLR wanting work done after presenting them with the knowledge that you have successfully completed an on line cource is also slim.
But if you want the personal knowledge and can afford the $400 than go for it
 
That is all I am really interisted in. I am not heading out to buy a 10,000.00 dollar lathe and all the other things that a full time gunsmith would be doing. I want to learn proper diss assembly, mounting scopes and and adding recoil pads. Stuff that seems to take months to get done and the serious gun smiths don,t really want to do. Something to help with friends and family
 
dakotadog said:
That is all I am really interisted in. I am not heading out to buy a 10,000.00 dollar lathe and all the other things that a full time gunsmith would be doing. I want to learn proper diss assembly, mounting scopes and and adding recoil pads. Stuff that seems to take months to get done and the serious gun smiths don,t really want to do. Something to help with friends and family
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You can learn that off UTube - no need to pay for a course.
 
dakotadog said:
That is all I am really interisted in. I am not heading out to buy a 10,000.00 dollar lathe and all the other things that a full time gunsmith would be doing. I want to learn proper diss assembly, mounting scopes and and adding recoil pads. Stuff that seems to take months to get done and the serious gun smiths don,t really want to do. Something to help with friends and family
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Have you tried seeking out a local gunsmith and maybe making a deal for some pratical experience..
 
Im in the middle of a course from ICS online. I learned a fair bit from the reading about things I didn't understand or had even heard of, and some that will probably be irrelevant anyway. The videos provided are an absolute joke. I end up using youtube more than often than not as there is tons for good info. Save yourself the money
 
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