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Message: <blockquote data-quote="SDMF" data-source="post: 488739" data-attributes="member: 412">I am not, never have been, doubtfully ever will be a gunsmith.  I don't even wanna be one.  I did learn a bunch of maintenance stuff out of necessity.  Was real simple @ our house, if you can't maintain it, you can't shoot/drive it.  If I wanted to move on from that single-shot Stevens 20Ga, I'd better start paying attention or just outright cleaning dad's shotguns so I could have more than 1 shot.  The 1100 dictated I'd better learn fast how to tear it down, clean it, and get it put back together.  Mother F'n WD-40 taught me more than any book.  Rem-Oil w/Teflon (vs. anything w/Silicone) was a GOD-SEND!!  I could go at least 2 weeks without having to tear-down, clean, and re-assemble my own and dad's 1100's.  Cleaned shotguns was a part of the deal just like loading the ammo.Circa 1986/87-ish dad had a 12Ga Rem 1100 cut down to ~12LOP and a longer fixed full bbl chopped back to 22" and added screw-in chokes.  It shot all of 70/30 high, maybe more, I know I didn't have to cover anything to kill it.  I worked 2 summers @ the trap club and decided all trap-shooters are ASSHOLES!!  Every single god-damned one of them.  Doubt I've shot more than 10 rounds of honest-to-goodness "Trap" since I was ~14.  There's one shooter/head club douche-bag in particular who's gotta be closer to 80 than 70 who if I saw, I might still kick his ass for being such a complete A-hole to us "trap kids".I shot youth league the 2 summers I worked @ the club.  Had to have 100 rounds re-sized on a MEC re-sizer so they'd run in an 1100 and then loaded on a Lee Load-All by Thursday afternoon before dad got in off the road.  50 for each of us, or I stayed home.  Pre-Steel shot, it was my job to count 25 4-buck pellets into primed/charged/wad 12Ga shells, hand them back and dad would crimp them.  Dad's buddy had 2 boys, the 3 of us couldn't quite keep up with the 2 dad's counting out buckshot while the dad's did the rest.  The 4-buck was for Sandhill Cranes.  Pretty sure dad had a serious vendetta against those things after the 1st few times he hunted them, hit several w/#4's, then #2's, and lead BB's that just kept on flying.Swapped over to 302/303 Beretta's when I was in high-school and I was in HEAVEN!!Wanna shoot gophers, no problem, but, better figure out how to keep that Marlin 60 or 10/22 running.Got into high-school, got a driver's license and Prairie Dogs were only ~45Min drive.  Shoot all the 223 ammo I want, but, I'd better load it back up so there was plenty if dad wanted to go.  When dad set up the Dillon 550 I thought I'd died and gone to reloading heaven!!  Never had to pay for ammo or components, just had to make sure I re-loaded what I shot.  About that same time, maybe a little earlier, neighbor bought a progressive PW shot-shell loader.  I had to run all the hulls through the single-stage re-sizer so the hulls would run through our semi-autos.  I'd do 55Gal garbage cans full of 12Ga empties on that Muther F'n MEC de-primer/re-sizer.  However, I was out of college and on my own before I really had to buy any ammo of any sort beyond the odd box of 22's.Scope mounting, trigger jobs, stock-swaps, semi-auto shotgun & rimfire tear-down/clean/re-assembly, Shot-shell and centerfire reloading, all by Jr. High school and all in a little louvered-door hidden utility room off the basement bathroom.'Smithing background, I hardly think so.  Knowledge born out of dirty hands and a well-chewed ass.</blockquote>

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