Gunsmithing/Armouring Apprenticeship

[nijalninja]

Now that is quite handy to know Daan. Do you mean SA as in South Australia, or South Africa? From reading the Modern Gunsmith on here I've gotten to appreciate my tools a bit more and come to understand the need for specialised tools and even more so the need to be able to make your own. Ultimately maybe if I could make up a program of a few different courses or trades that all come into armouring then I could do them at the same time as simply repairing old guns and taking on projects to expand my knowledge.

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[Gil Boyd]

As long as you are patient with anything mechanical and take it apart memorising the methodical sequence you did that, and find parts that need replacing or not as the case may be, and reassemble it, you have taken the first steps to learning about firearms.

However, many parts involved in weapons have tolerances built into them as they are fired and tested, this area is one where you need to spend time with an armourer/technician to teach you that specialism, using technical drawings and all at your disposal to rebuild it correctly and then have the bottle to test it yourself!!

[MSW2]

Now that is quite handy to know Daan. Do you mean SA as in South Australia, or South Africa? From reading the Modern Gunsmith on here I've gotten to appreciate my tools a bit more and come to understand the need for specialised tools and even more so the need to be able to make your own. Ultimately maybe if I could make up a program of a few different courses or trades that all come into armouring then I could do them at the same time as simply repairing old guns and taking on projects to expand my knowledge.

South Africa.