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| Gunsmithing: Guns of the Old West (Gunsmithing) | 
 enlarge | Author: David R. Chicoine
Publisher: Krause Publications
Category: Book
List Price: $27.95
Buy New: $15.00
You Save: $12.95 (46%)
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Avg. Customer Rating:  8 reviews
Sales Rank: 282427
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 352
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.8
Dimensions (in): 11.1 x 8.5 x 0.7
ISBN: 0873492528
Dewey Decimal Number: 683.4
EAN: 9780873492522
ASIN: 0873492528
Publication Date: November 2001
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Condition: su-s
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Product Description
Collectors, cowboy action shooters, hobbyists and Old West re-enactors will demand this guide to repairing and improving Old West firearms. More than 40 original and replica guns are covered. Step-by-step detailed illustrations demonstrate to amateur and advanced gunsmiths how to repair and upgrade Old West firearms. This valuable knowledge is passed along to readers by a true working professional with a long history of quality custom gunsmithing work. Features: coverage includes over 40 original and replica guns of the Old West; step-by-step detailed illustrations demonstrate how to repair and upgrade antique and replica firearms; must-have knowledge for anyone working on their Old West firearm or having it repaired or improved.
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For the amateur collector June 7, 2008
An excellent book for firearms enthusiasts and collectors. Very good tips on numerous 100-150 year old specimens that can be applied to many other types and models that are not specifically covered.
Also has very useful information on gunsmithing and use of tools. The part on screw driver tips MUST be carefully read and diligently applied as many gun screws (and thus guns) are harmed and/or ruined due to use of wrong screwdrivers and techniques. A few extra bucks spent on quality screwdrivers and time used to fit them to screwslots will save many bucks, tempers and tears (including tearing off hair) otherwise encountered.
Gunsmithing Guns Of The Old West February 23, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Very well presented with a wealth of information for the pro or home gunsmith.Another good reference book to add to the collection.
 Very useful and intelligently written February 28, 2007
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
I found this book to be very helpful when repairing top break replicas, Colts (single and double action), and percussion revolvers. He also covers lever action rifles extensively although I have not personally used that section.
Gunsmiths these days are hard to find, so a lot of us have to do it ourselves. The author thankfully covers a lot of important and common problems I have faced, so that I didn't have to go on a usually futile search for a gunsmith. Mr. Chicoine is obviously an experienced and intelligent man, and he writes clearly. Plenty of illustrations guide you through the repairs he describes.
Does he cover every possible conceivable problem? Every firearm? Of course not. Who could? For the money I recommend it. It has saved me more than the purchase price already.
 Gunsmithing Old-Timers February 8, 2007
1 out of 6 found this review helpful
I returned this book because I felt it did not live up to my expectations after all the hype I had read about it.
Chicoines expertise documented for all May 26, 2002
8 out of 11 found this review helpful
Dave Chicoine's book places the years of this Mastercraftsmens experience and knowledge right in your hands.Long known amongst the collector's & shooters of the old firearms as THEE person to have do your repair or restoration's on these old classics, Chicoines book makes a most welcome addition to this booming field and is written in a down to earth,understandable manner,
clear and concise, and reader friendly.The information found in this new book contains a tremendous amount of hard to find facts and details surrounding working on these "old timers" and new information about the modern reproductions of many of these classics and the "ins & Outs" of them also by the man who has the most experience to date in working,repairing and "sprucing up" these new firearms. Let us hope he produces more such works for those of us in this field down the road a piece.
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