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I am also having issues with my 10/22 scope mount, discussed over on the Firearms Accessories forum. I went to Gander Mountain in order to buy some longer screws in the same diameter, and they have pretty good scope mount section. But no packs of screws without another mount. So I thought I'd talk to the gunsmith. Maybe buy some screws, or maybe give up and let him drill and tap the receiver for larger diameter screws.
He wouldn't sell them to me. He gave them to me.
That guy took about 20 minutes with me, picking four little screws out of his rather impressive boxed collection of gun screws, and when I asked him "how much'" he said, "Oh, $49.95....or if you're gonna balk at that, you'll just have to take 'em for free". He didn't HAVE to do anything for me, mind you. But I watched him with an old man whom he was waiting on when I walked up. He'd re-blued an old, old, OLD shotgun (this man was in his 70's or 80's and said he'd gotten it from HIS dad when he was 11 or 12, not new either) gotten or made a new stock and forend for it, made it good as new. The old guy was just about in tears when he left. He was worried about dinging it up on the way home. "Let me get you a gun sock for that, sir," says the gunsmith, and wrapped it up like a baby in bunting and handed it to the old man.
As he did, he said, "You know, there's some of us left who will do these jobs nobody else will. Because their worth doing, ya know?"
We whack on Gander Mountain a lot around here, and they deserve it for their prices, their selection (what is 'selection') in used handguns (and NEW handguns), their decimation of their rifle section (sacrilege!) But they deserve kudos when they're earned, and this gunsmith, at the I-45 and Cypresswood GM (for you Houstonians) deserves thanks.
So here they are.
Pretty cool IMO.
I am also having issues with my 10/22 scope mount, discussed over on the Firearms Accessories forum. I went to Gander Mountain in order to buy some longer screws in the same diameter, and they have pretty good scope mount section. But no packs of screws without another mount. So I thought I'd talk to the gunsmith. Maybe buy some screws, or maybe give up and let him drill and tap the receiver for larger diameter screws.
He wouldn't sell them to me. He gave them to me.
That guy took about 20 minutes with me, picking four little screws out of his rather impressive boxed collection of gun screws, and when I asked him "how much'" he said, "Oh, $49.95....or if you're gonna balk at that, you'll just have to take 'em for free". He didn't HAVE to do anything for me, mind you. But I watched him with an old man whom he was waiting on when I walked up. He'd re-blued an old, old, OLD shotgun (this man was in his 70's or 80's and said he'd gotten it from HIS dad when he was 11 or 12, not new either) gotten or made a new stock and forend for it, made it good as new. The old guy was just about in tears when he left. He was worried about dinging it up on the way home. "Let me get you a gun sock for that, sir," says the gunsmith, and wrapped it up like a baby in bunting and handed it to the old man.
As he did, he said, "You know, there's some of us left who will do these jobs nobody else will. Because their worth doing, ya know?"
We whack on Gander Mountain a lot around here, and they deserve it for their prices, their selection (what is 'selection') in used handguns (and NEW handguns), their decimation of their rifle section (sacrilege!) But they deserve kudos when they're earned, and this gunsmith, at the I-45 and Cypresswood GM (for you Houstonians) deserves thanks.
So here they are.
Pretty cool IMO.
