Gun Kits
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Gun Kits
Has anyone here built a gun from a kit? I've seen these before. Mostly old fashioned civil war and older muskets and such. I was thinking about getting one. Just wonderin if anyones got any information about them, like shooting costs and things like that.
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I have finished putting several of these things together for folks who buy them thinking this would be fun only to find out the wood doesn't fit the metal parts and some of the metal parts will need to be filed to fit correctly. I wouldn't recommend one of them as they are a headache. If you want to build a gun, start with an action, get it rebarreled to a modern cartridge of your choice, buy the semi-inletted stock and go to work. A modern center fire custom rifle is far more useful and fun to build.
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I have built a Brazillian FAL clone, from a kit, a non firing BMG, also from a kit, and I have another FAL sitting in bits in the gunroom, waiting for the receiver to arrive.. 
I have built a couple of 1911s from kits and more from just separately bought parts, I assembled a Mech Tech carbine, from bits, which is a really accurate carbine - .45 ACP.. I am thinking of building a Draganoff Sniper rifle, if I can find the parts. I have a Nagant rifle ready to turn into a short barreled varmit gun sometime soon. I also built a nice wheel lock pistol, a few years ago, from a kit. My Kentucky Rifle came in bits also.. A kit is a really good way for someone to learn about how a weapon goes together - many come with a video of the assembly procedure, which teaches far more than just how to make your kit go bang.
I used to assemble FALs in the military, prior to becoming an armorer, so my entire gunsmithing experience started from assembling rifle kits..
I have built a couple of 1911s from kits and more from just separately bought parts, I assembled a Mech Tech carbine, from bits, which is a really accurate carbine - .45 ACP.. I am thinking of building a Draganoff Sniper rifle, if I can find the parts. I have a Nagant rifle ready to turn into a short barreled varmit gun sometime soon. I also built a nice wheel lock pistol, a few years ago, from a kit. My Kentucky Rifle came in bits also.. A kit is a really good way for someone to learn about how a weapon goes together - many come with a video of the assembly procedure, which teaches far more than just how to make your kit go bang.I used to assemble FALs in the military, prior to becoming an armorer, so my entire gunsmithing experience started from assembling rifle kits..
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