I am looking at buying a rifle that Paul Marquart did the barrelling for. Does anyone know the history of his company and his reputation in general. All I know is that he was a gunsmith and that he passed away fairly recently.

Thanks.

Paul Marquart was the partner of Bill Atkinson in Atkinson Marquart in ?Prescott, Az? I think. He was a fine 'smith and very interesting to talk to.

He lost a bunch of his digits in a test fire failure many years ago and he would surprise people that ask about it by saying, "It hurt like HELL!!".

Of course most folks was asking *how* it happened. Not *what* he remembered of it!

If you have an A&M barrel you have the best of it's day.

I shot a two post group and this is a paster over the second.

[ 02-15-2003, 10:16: Message edited by: JBelk ]

Those two posts were about 10 M.O.A. . Not your best group I'm sure.

Paul lost his digits testing a rechamber job he did.(308 Norma mag.)on a 03A3.He converted an 03 for me in 69 and did a great job, walked me through the details.He was a great man to talk with.
Jim

I should have mentioned that Bill made all the barrels. Paul did all the other work.
Jim