Gunsmithing Diploma
Module 2 - Sights, Accuracy, and Black Powder
Care, Cleaning, and Storage of Firearms
Outlines gun maintenance and cleaning techniques such as metal, fouling, rust removal, cold weather precautions, storage, and more. Includes special section on cleaning and preserving black-powder guns.
Metallic Sights, Design and Application
Begins with sighting fundamentals: styles, adjustments, and sight setting charts. Moves into development of different kinds of metallic sights, including hooded, rear, peep, and target. Closes with a guide to custom sight installation.
Telescopic Sights, Design and Application
How to mount sights that magnify game or targets for easy aim. Discusses bore sighting, collimating, sighting in, drilling and tapping for scope mounts, drilling hardened receivers and sight-mounting jigs.
Accurizing
How to improve the accuracy of a firearm. With the Colt Model 1911 Pistol as your guide, you study bushing barrel entry clearance, bushing lock-up clearance, lug engagement, fitting the match link, checking the barrel bed, fitting the barrel/slide, modifying the ejection port, and other factors related to firearm performance.
Black Powder Gunsmithing
Tools and techniques for troubleshooting, accurizing, and restoring today’s increasingly popular black powder guns. Special section on trading tells you how to find black powder guns, evaluate their condition, and sell them for profit.
Cleaning Firearms Lab Kit
In your first hands-on training lab kit, the student finds out for themselves how a simple cleaning using expert tools can keep firearms functioning properly and looking like new. Step by step you learn how to disassemble different kinds of guns and inspect them for obstructions. Following easy-to-understand instruction, you then see how to safely clean and condition guns by removing greasy buildup, powder, moisture, and more.
|
