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<blockquote data-quote="Bullet bumper" data-source="post: 672091" data-attributes="member: 17844"><p>You could be right but it don't look like an independent chuck to me .</p><p>Before I started doing my own work I used a local smith. He used to tell me all this stuff about indicating this and that but one day I caught him out.</p><p>Went to his shop and peeked in the window to see him turning a barrel between centres and then taking it over to another lathe and just chucking it up in a six jaw and going straight in with the reamer. This chance situation was a huge wake up call to me . So I decided to stay and watch . Well it turned out to be my gun he was doing . So all the sales talk about the precision setup to chamber was bull dust . I went straight out and bought a lathe and mill and have not looked back . Sure it is not cost effective and the few guns I have done have cost me a lot more , but the satisfaction is huge . I have to indicate a barrel in because I only have an independent four jaw chuck . I think that the service you get from some gunsmiths varies as to the class of work it is and how important a shooter you are but the sales pitch and cost stay about the same , that is what annoys me.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Bullet bumper, post: 672091, member: 17844"] You could be right but it don't look like an independent chuck to me . Before I started doing my own work I used a local smith. He used to tell me all this stuff about indicating this and that but one day I caught him out. Went to his shop and peeked in the window to see him turning a barrel between centres and then taking it over to another lathe and just chucking it up in a six jaw and going straight in with the reamer. This chance situation was a huge wake up call to me . So I decided to stay and watch . Well it turned out to be my gun he was doing . So all the sales talk about the precision setup to chamber was bull dust . I went straight out and bought a lathe and mill and have not looked back . Sure it is not cost effective and the few guns I have done have cost me a lot more , but the satisfaction is huge . I have to indicate a barrel in because I only have an independent four jaw chuck . I think that the service you get from some gunsmiths varies as to the class of work it is and how important a shooter you are but the sales pitch and cost stay about the same , that is what annoys me. [/QUOTE]
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