r/gunsmithing

I bought this used Winchester 1897 and while I was doing a full disassembly yesterday I was forced to stop due to noticing the carrier pin stop screw is partially stripped.

What I'm wanting to know is if I can possibly self repair this or if it would be more worth just taking it to a local gunsmith to avoid the headache?

If I can possibly self repair what would be recommended to make this easier, as I already have the replacement part on the way?

I don’t even know where to start with this. Was hoping it was some cooked on carbon but it did not come off with a brass brush or pick and is in the exact opposite side of the pin location.

Hey everyone,
I bought a pretty rough derelict Star Firestar Plus — lots of rust and grime, definitely a project gun. Rather than restoring the factory bluing, I went with new internal parts and refinished it in KG Industries GunKote.
I know some folks prefer keeping these old Spanish pistols original, so I’m opening myself up to criticism here. Curious what you think — solid modernization or did I go too far?
Appreciate any feedback!

Mark

I bought a Used PT92 a couple of months ago. The fitment between the frame and slide in certain areas was light tight. Same thing with the locking block and barrel. All it had was Holster wear on one side.

I go to shoot it and sometimes the slide doesn’t lock back, and with certain magazines, during course of fire rounds would fly out. I bought wolf springs and new beretta followers. That remedied the feeding issues. But some magazines wouldn’t drop free.

I have 2 mystery meat magazines for this gun with no markings. The new followers and springs remedied the feeding issues 100% but they wouldn’t drop free. That’s unacceptable for a “combat pistol”.

Upon closer inspection I found that the magazines had a thick, almost epoxy primer like coating on them. So I decided to sand it off and reblue them.(that will be its own post in time).

TLDR: Here’s my question (finally):

In the last batch of photos should I make the mystery meat magazines match the mec gar magazines in that area? What is important about about that area of magazine geometry?

I assume the gun is totally fucked. Sorry to expose you to this but I wanted to see if I can at least pay a person who actually knows what they’re doing to fix my utter incompetence.

I got this Marlin Model 60 for free, but it cost me my dignity.

Remington 725 30-06 scratches easily. My dad’s gun and I took it last year and it gets these faint scratches. Doesn’t look like a big deal but in person you can easily see them. None of my other wood stocked guns scratch like this one. Is there any oil or coating to help prevent this? Heirloom gun I don’t want to beat to death

I have pictures of both products I felt like I did the research but this muzzle device will not thread on

I picked up a shadow 2 carry earlier this year and had very high expectations. This is my first CZ and I have to say I have not been very impressed so far. I love the ergonomics and everything with the looks and way it shoots. However, I have right around 1k rounds through this gun and have had 20+ failure to feeds. It is the same malfunction every time it occurs. It appears that the edge of the casing gets stuck on the chamber opening and will only cycle if the slide is pulled back some and then released. I’ll attach a picture of the failure below. I’ve had this malfunction with 115, 124, and 147 grain across multiple brands. I thought it might get better over time or with more cleaning/lubrication but nothing helped. I finally gave in and had it sent off to CZ today. My question is if anyone has experienced something similar, and if you sent it to CZ what was their fix if any.
Side note, this isn’t related to the malfunctions but I did notice today before I sent it off that a small piece of the very end of the recoil spring had actually snapped off and was just hanging on in the retainer of the guide rod. Wasn’t causing any issues that I noticed, but again very surprised to see this on a gun with this price point and no more than 1k rounds through it.

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Notices the slight bulge in the barrel. I fired 100+ round through it and just now had the stuff to take it apart for cleaning. Time for new barrel?

I thought this would be simple to figure out - but the internet is just a rabbit hole of information for me to get sucked into.

Looking for a gun vise of some sort - use cases are cleaning rifles and pistols, mounting optics, installing actions into stocks, some simple work like replacing pins, etc. Nothing too heavy.

There are options like this: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07V9PK3FZ/ref=ewc_pr_img_3?smid=ATVPDKIKX0DER&psc=1#averageCustomerReviewsAnchor

And options like this: https://www.scheels.com/p/4196-4004923/?cq_src=google_ads&cq_cmp=12645232755&cq_con=174395101896&cq_term=&cq_med=&cq_plac=&cq_net=g&cq_pos=&cq_plt=gp&gad_source=1&gad_campaignid=12645232755&gclid=CjwKCAjwmJjSBhB-EiwAkZgxi2G7yu-kb9ksv6FiaBsojk5dMUQIk7Dl4kHBKbs1ao1t0CGCGxIvyhoCT6YQAvD_BwE

And then I kinda end up thinking about going to Harbor Freight and getting a cheap vise along with some of the foam I use to build up rifle stocks and a few other accessories. This is where I'm currently thinking.

Any wisdom would be greatly appreciated!

Just got this Krag, it’s my first one, and noticed the feed ramp piece looks bent compared to other photos I’ve seen. It’s hard to tell since there aren’t many clear references online, but I don’t think it’s supposed to look like this. There’s also a scratch just above it, so it seems like something may have impacted or damaged it, who knows what bubba was doing.
The follower also gets caught here a little
Also, rounds tend to get stuck right at that point. That doesn’t seem normal, right?
Any ideas to fix this?

I installed a Partisan FRT in this thing and it shoots like a beast. I had to upgrade the springs to ILWT +20% and the ILWT adjustable gas block to get maximum performance. Well worth the upgrades. I’ve ordered the GHW Tailhook Mod 1C pistol brace and it’s lan on swapping out the stock pistol brace once it arrives. God only knows why Sig decided to make their pistol brace fully rotate, it gets to be quite a nuisance when going super semi auto.

So for context these are Badger Ordnance scope rings that a previous owner had spray painted. Decided to strip the paint and used some CitriStrip. It obviously didn’t get all the paint but I dropped them in some mineral spirits to help remove any excess cleaner. They were fully submerged and the mineral spirits were brand new. After removing I noticed this odd staining. It feels totally smooth still and there was some similar color stuff in the screw heads but it’s scrubbed right out. He also used an absurd amount of thread locker and I noticed the inside of the threads where there was residue from that turned this same color. Is this rust or just some kind weird reaction between the paint and chemicals I used?? Anything I can do to safely remove it and not damage the rings??