Some Manitoba Precision Gunsmith Work
- Thread starter flyerhawk19
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Shoots great. And i think he has tables set up at the local gun shoes around manitoba. And at the big canadian one in calgary i believe. Dont be afraid to call him either if he has time he has no prob talking for a couple hours about boom sticks.
Why ask? I'd have thought someone would know something as a fact before making such a damaging statement.
VALLEYRIDER
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- Location
- Saskatchewan
Thats a nice looking build flyerhawk19. Did he get the action trued and blueprinted when he did the build?
I thought I would try him a few years ago as well. When I got it back it had a nice paint job and that was about it, I took him a Rem 700 action and was told he would true it up. When I picked it up he told me that it did not need done, it was one of the best 700 actions he had ever seen and most of them did not need it anyway, right then I knew i got screwed. I took it home and after several hundred rounds of trying to build a load gave up. He did not want to address any of the issues the rifle had and was not willing to do anything with it. I took it to another gun smith to have it looked at and he spent the time to show me what was all wrong with the rifle. To start with the bedding job was bad, it still had stress on the action and you could see the imperfections( I knew this because I questioned him about it), then after looking through a bore scope I could see the chatter marks from reamer from poor chamber job. The fire pin hole was off set and much larger than fire pin (as many of the new SPS actions are) and how the bolt needed to be timed. So after having the action trued, fire pin bushed, bolt timed, rechambered and rebedded I can't be more happy, the rifle is now unbelievably accurte. This was the first custom rifle that i had built and it was a few years ago now and I have learned alot since and I hope Gerry has too. I am not really into this internet bashing crap but since then I have seen a few people post some of his stuff on this site and I thought it was time to share some of the not so good work that he has done. In fact some might not even safe, A friend of mine also had him build a rifle at the same time and his had all the same issues as mine, his after 2 firings split almost all the necks on the brass. He also took it to have it looked at and it also have a very poor chamber job and the barrel was barely hand tight. I know I will never deal with him again.
VALLEYRIDER
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- Location
- Saskatchewan
Anyone else have any good/bad stories about this guy. I talked with him at the Calgary Show for a while about a build. His work looked nice, just wonder if he is the right guy for the job??
