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11-14-2016, 10:56 AM | #3 | ||||||
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Thanks, yes, good point. I thought I'd maybe be able to consolidate it into a trip I'd already be taking for other reasons. More importantly, though, I was afraid I'd be wasting all of the person's time to receive, unpack, catalog, repack, and reship it for what might turn out to be only a few minutes' inspection by qualified eyes.
I'll take this as advice that I don't need to worry so much! Thanks. I'd still be interested in anyone's insight on options closer to home, but barring that I'll start working on safe packaging. I appreciate it. |
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11-14-2016, 02:13 PM | #4 | ||||||
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Mr Acome:
You might look up Heritage Gunsmithing (Canterbury OH). It's 45 minutes north of Columbus and is reputed to do very good double gun work. I'm sure they can measure the barrels. |
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11-15-2016, 11:02 AM | #5 | |||||||
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Make sure you ask about the cost up front. |
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11-15-2016, 11:54 AM | #6 | ||||||
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Brian, did the $140 include "fitting a barrel" on the Remington 31 or was the $140 a separate line item for 'shooting for pattern'?
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11-15-2016, 12:19 PM | #7 | ||||||
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The $140 was a line item above and beyond the 31 barrel fitting and head spacing, $140 for 3 shots ( he did supply the 3 target loads) into a piece of paper, a circle drawn around the dense part of the pattern and the "evaluation" that the full choke barrel was performing as a modified.
That being said they are very good at what they do as gunsmith's. |
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11-15-2016, 01:40 PM | #8 | ||||||
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A lawyer 'friend' once sent me an impersonal bill for $250 for a 15 minute phone call in late November where he spent less than two minutes advising me and the other thirteen minutes were spent bs-ing about family and upland hunting.
In early December I sent him only a Christmas card wishing him and his family the joys and blessings of the season..... I've never heard from him since. (I had hoped he would call me to discuss the 'unpaid' bill - after all, we were friends) I guess we've gotta know these things before we engage. .
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11-15-2016, 02:46 PM | #9 | ||||||
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I apologize to Heritage Gunsmithing for drawing them into the line of fire...
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11-15-2016, 03:08 PM | #10 | ||||||
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My apologies for anything I might have said to give that impression. I don't know them and did not direct any comments toward their business practices.
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"I'm a Setter man. Not because I think they're better than the other breeds, but because I'm a romantic - stuck on tradition - and to me, a Setter just "belongs" in the grouse picture." George King, "That's Ruff", 2010 - a timeless classic. |
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