Can anyone recommend a book that gives detailed decriptions of some of the work that riflesmiths perform? Things like chambering, headspacing, turning barrels to the correct contour, action work, bedding etc. Photos would be helpful also.

Thanks
ZM

Gunsmithing Rifles by Patrick Sweeney is a good one. It is a very detail oriented book with lots of close up photos. I also have a couple others but this one is better the others in my book collection. I bought my copy from MidwayUSA. Good luck.

Jack Mitchell's book is very good as well.

the gun digest book of
RIFLESMITHING
the art and science of rifle gunsmithing

It has everything you want except barrel contouring.

An old book that has been reprinted is "Gunsmithing" by a guy named Dunlap. It's pretty good, and gives fairly detailed descriptions of a number of gunsmithing tasks, along with cartridge profiles (including some odd wildcats you'll never hear of elsewhere) and photos / descriptions of some rifles made by the old masters of '40s and '50s.

Todd