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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ParrotPirate" data-source="post: 4273258" data-attributes="member: 51087"><p>My first experience with a gunsmith was this dude named Gibson in North Tulsa. It was a really good experience, but then he got sick and retired. My second experience was with the dip-stick gunsmith at what was then my daily range, 2A. I had some target sights for a Beretta 96a1 and they were too wide for my sight pusher. I figured anyone with a mallet, nylon punch and workbench could do it. The turn around was probably too quick, because when I arrived the job was not good. The sight itself was chewed up from the gunsmith using a metal punch to push it. He had some serious whiffs as well which had damaged the finish in the safety selector and frame and even left a few divots. I wasn’t too concerned about the selector cause I have more of them, but he left some dings in that slide that are still there to this day. Those are bad things, indicative of a lazy gunsmith, but the most damning thing was that the GS hadn’t removed the safety selector before install so it was jammed up against the sight base. A gunsmith handed me a slide as finished that was not operational. No matter how much you want to defend this man’s work, do not overlook the fact that when I gave him the gun it was working, and when he gave it back to me it was not. I was apoplectic when I saw the state of my slide. I told him I wasn’t going to pay them. In the end Eric charged me half-price for the work, stating that “they had put the sights on the gun really quickly”, but I was not happy and told the gunsmith to his face that he sucks. That was my first and only lesson about “in-house” gunsmiths and I will never forget. They are **** and you should never use them.</p></blockquote><p></p>

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