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<blockquote data-quote="Josh Smith" data-source="post: 1871581" data-attributes="member: 24466"><p>Hello,</p><p></p><p>I was a member of the AGI. They had some good stuff but you had to look for it. Still have my membership card someplace, but it's expired as I said.</p><p></p><p>Learning from videos really is not a good way to go. Lots of folks like to teach. I was recently asked by one of my former high school students (I sub when I have time, usually for the high school I attended) to teach him "Everything I know about guns". Yup, be glad to! He's 19 and I'm 34. </p><p></p><p>I learned off an older gunsmith gent. Spent most of my time fitting parts in old, cracked 1911 frames and such that he had laying around, and repairing .22 rifles. I had just started the real work on pistols when he up and died. I do miss him.</p><p></p><p>Come to find out that his level of perfection was far and above what other, more recent gunsmiths expect. I had to know how to make parts for obsolete guns, for example, and how to harden them acceptably and how to use a file and stones. There was no MIM that I remember.</p><p></p><p>If you can find any teaching from a person like that, treasure it! That type of work is going away all too fast. </p><p></p><p>What I'm trying to say is, find someone who wants to teach their skills. I find locally most gunsmiths <em>love</em> sharing out knowledge! Find a retired gunsmith and just ask questions.</p><p></p><p>Even if you don't get hands-on, chances are you'll learn more from the retired gunsmith's words than you will a video.</p><p></p><p>Josh</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Josh Smith, post: 1871581, member: 24466"] Hello, I was a member of the AGI. They had some good stuff but you had to look for it. Still have my membership card someplace, but it's expired as I said. Learning from videos really is not a good way to go. Lots of folks like to teach. I was recently asked by one of my former high school students (I sub when I have time, usually for the high school I attended) to teach him "Everything I know about guns". Yup, be glad to! He's 19 and I'm 34. I learned off an older gunsmith gent. Spent most of my time fitting parts in old, cracked 1911 frames and such that he had laying around, and repairing .22 rifles. I had just started the real work on pistols when he up and died. I do miss him. Come to find out that his level of perfection was far and above what other, more recent gunsmiths expect. I had to know how to make parts for obsolete guns, for example, and how to harden them acceptably and how to use a file and stones. There was no MIM that I remember. If you can find any teaching from a person like that, treasure it! That type of work is going away all too fast. What I'm trying to say is, find someone who wants to teach their skills. I find locally most gunsmiths [i]love[/i] sharing out knowledge! Find a retired gunsmith and just ask questions. Even if you don't get hands-on, chances are you'll learn more from the retired gunsmith's words than you will a video. Josh [/QUOTE]
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