Living out her in "fly over country" without a decent double gunsmith within 400 miles I have no problem mailing my guns to a good gunsmith. The economics of mailing are so much better than driving more than 50 miles. Example if you are going to mail a set of barrels the cost will be roughly $10.00 plus insurance each way. A 5 hour drive equates to roughly 300 miles, today the cost of gas was down to $3.21 per gallon and if you have an average American car you will get about 20 miles per gallon. Total cost for gas one way about $50.00 plus wear and tear on the car and then you have to get home. Oh and when the barrels are done you have the whole trip to make again. So you have doubled the cost of the re-blue job.
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