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Houston gunsmiths?
17 April 2006, 04:45
mitchell6873Houston gunsmiths?
Anyone in houston know a good gunsmith I can trust to do a trigger job on my Whitworth?
17 April 2006, 05:05
fla3006Todd Johnson
281-639-6746
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17 April 2006, 05:09
RustyShip it down I-10 to Tip Burns in Canyon Lake, Texas. He has done work on BobC's Whitworth.
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17 April 2006, 05:15
MJinesTip is currently building me a .458 Win Mag on a Springfield action. Should have the rifle in several weeks.
He is one of the nicest fellows you will ever meet and is very responsive and easy to get in touch with. He built the Houston Safari Club's President's rifle this year, a .500 Jeffery, and it was a beautiful rifle.
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17 April 2006, 06:39
lee440What part of Houston are you in, and are you looking to adjust the factory trigger or replace it? Lee
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17 April 2006, 08:51
mitchell6873I'm in the NW area but I don't mind a little drive for quality. Anyone have a contact # for Tip Burns?
17 April 2006, 12:28
RustyTip Burns,
830-935-3338
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DRSS, NRA & SCI Life Member
"I am rejoiced at my fate. Do not be uneasy about me, for I am with my friends."
----- David Crockett in his last letter (to his children), January 9th, 1836
"I will never forsake Texas and her cause. I am her son." ----- Jose Antonio Navarro, from Mexican Prison in 1841
"for I have sworn upon the altar of god eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man." Thomas Jefferson
Declaration of Arbroath April 6, 1320-“. . .It is not for glory, nor riches, nor honours that we are fighting, but for freedom - for that alone, which no honest man gives up but with life itself.”
21 April 2006, 01:54
mufasaCharley Sisk is in the Dayton area and he could certainly do the work if you could talk him into doing it. Try (936)-258-4984. Kerry O'Day at MGA right by Carter's Country on Treshweig can do it (281)-821-8282.
21 April 2006, 04:32
mitchell6873Have you used Charlie before? I had a bad experience with Matchgrade Arms...won't use them again.
21 April 2006, 05:33
ramrod340quote:
I had a bad experience with Matchgrade Arms...won't use them again
I second that. I had a friend that had Sisk do some work a year or two ago and he was very happy.
As usual just my $.02
Paul K
21 April 2006, 06:43
fla3006quote:
mitchell6873: I had a bad experience with Matchgrade Arms...won't use them again.
Make it a third. Never let them bed a barreled action.
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21 April 2006, 06:50
jeffeossomatch grade?
yep ... I got a box of matches, you got the gun?
no way for kerry o'day
jeffe
21 April 2006, 07:10
MHC_TXI had Briley's do a trigger job on one of my rifles. They did just what I wanted and had the gun back to me in less than 2 weeks.
21 April 2006, 07:43
mitchell6873Thanks MHC, I was actually considering Brileys...glad to hear good feedback on them. Do they have a number of gunsmiths and you just get the luck of the draw or is it one guy? They are pretty close to home but saving driving time isn't my priority. Anyone else use them?
21 April 2006, 07:54
MJinesI had Brileys put a Kick EEZ recoil pad on my Heym M88D. They did a fine job. Even though it was just a recoil pad I did not want just anyone taking a saw to the stock of the Heym.
Mike
21 April 2006, 09:14
JMJ888Briley has cornered the market on shotguns and any work involved with them. I think they have had some "shifting around" in their rifle department though. If you look on their wesite they have an opening for a gunsmith in the rifle shop...just some food for though.
21 April 2006, 17:57
470CapstickA2I know several people who have had some rifles built by Briley... I met the guy, and his name is either Aaron or Erin, who did all of the work... both guns shoot dime size groups at 100 yds... one a 300 wsm and the other a 7rusm.. I shoot lots of shotgun, but Briley won't turn out a bad job.. and their time estimates are accurate.
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21 April 2006, 18:50
PeglegS.G.&Y. Precision Rifles (Speedy Gonzalez)
Area 51, 602 Douglas Drive
Roanoke, TX 76262
Phone: (817) 430-0597
http://www.sgyrifles.com(BR, LR and Hunting Rifles; prepped brass
This guy is really GOOD!!
The only easy day is yesterday!
22 April 2006, 17:57
Lhook7Briley did all my work when I lived in Houston and the quality was always exellent.
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I had some work done on handguns by Briley and they were the absolute worst. Hopefully they do a better job on rifles and I would imagine they are the best when it comes to shotguns. It has been a couple of years and things may have changed but I won't be going back.