Gunsmithing Pistols & Revolvers

Yes, You Can Learn Gunsmithing At Home

Everything you need to know about repair, maintenance and customization!

You'll Love This If:

• You need to repair or maintain your handguns
• You're a gunsmith or want to become one
• You want to upgrade or customize your pistols or revolvers at home

Why Pay a Gunsmith When You Can Do It Yourself?

Gunsmithing Pistols and Revolvers 3rd Edition is ideal for the professional gunsmith or do-it-yourselfer. It covers everything from basic disassembly and maintenance to more complex repair and customization techniques for semiautomatic handguns and wheelguns. Your instructor is master gunsmith Patrick Sweeney, who explains with clear, simple text and detailed photos basic to advanced gunsmithing techniques for pistols and revolvers. Need to mount a front or rear sight, replace a cylinder, give your gun a thorough cleaning or perform any one of a hundred other essential procedures? You'll find the answers in this revised edition of Gunsmithing Pistols and Revolvers.

You’ll Learn:

• How to make your handguns tack-driving accurate
• How to improve semi-auto reliability
• How to install custom features like match triggers and night sights

TIP: Find Out How to Fix Handgun Malfunctions

Chapters Include:

• Gunsmithing for Fun
• A Place for Everything and Everything Has Its Place
• The Long and Short of Removing Metal
• How They Work and What to Look For
• Keep It Clean
• Power Tools for the Ambitious
• What Is Involved In Testing
• Welding and Metal Joining
• Refinishing
• Malfunctions of the Revolver
• Malfunctions of Pistols
• Magazines for the Autoloader
• Sights to Steer By
• Grips: Something to Hold On To
• Timing and Tuning Your Revolver
• The vZ-52
• Basic Pistolsmithing the Glock
• Basic Pistolsmithing the 1911
• Advanced Pistolsmithing the 1911
• Barrel and Cylinder Fitting, S&W Revolvers
• The Makarov
• The Springfield XD and XDm
• Gunsmithing Mistakes
• Sources for your Labors
• Plus hundreds of detailed photos depicting the step-by-step processes in an easy-to-follow format!

Snippet from the Book

"What can you do at home, working on your own? Provided you have the right tools, more than you might think. Replacing parts such as sights and barrels, checkering and stippling metal work, delicate stoning of trigger parts for a better trigger pull - all are within the ability of the shooter who wants to do his or her own work." - Patrick Sweeney