Smith Gun has been operating since 1983, building a reputation for detailed, quality work across every major firearm type. They're not a retail shop—they're a gunsmith's gunsmith, handling restoration, customization, and specialized repairs that most shops won't touch.
This is where Smith Gun really stands out. They offer:
- •Bluing services: Bead blast, matte, satin, deluxe, and mirror finishes
- •Rebluing: Complete rebluing with deep clean, old finish removal, and protection of screw holes, proof marks, and corners
- •Slow rust bluing on handguns, rifles, and shotguns
- •Electroless nickel: Matte or high polish on handguns, rifles, and shotguns
- •Cerakote finishing: Custom color application (they've done Robin's Egg Blue on Kimber 1911s)
- •Baked lacquer/Teflon moly for handguns and shotguns
- •Parkerizing and specialized stripping services
Before-and-after work includes complete restorations like a Browning FNA5 (wood and metal), a Winchester Model 97 that was originally botched by another gunsmith, and a Remington 551 fully restored.
Their shotgun work menu is extensive:
- •Lengthen forcing cones (plated and non-plated bores)
- •Resolder ribs and forend lugs
- •Raise dents from barrels
- •Sleeve barrels
- •Install rifle slug barrels
- •Polish chambers and bores
- •Open/modify chokes or install screw-in choke tubes
- •Install adjustable chokes (Polychoke, Multi-Choke, etc.)
- •Replace hinge pins and tighten receivers
- •Install poly ribs (glue-on or solder type)
- •Cut and crown barrels
- •Rebore shotguns to open chokes
- •Complete rebuilding of lockwork on doubles and over/unders
- •Install or adjust triggers (Shilen, Timney, Dayton-Traister)
- •Action tuning (clean, smooth action on singles and doubles)
- •Stock bending to fit individual shooters
Smith Gun stocks quality components and does custom 1911 builds:
Parts Available:
- Ed Brown safeties (extended, narrow/wide)
- Nowlin match-grade barrels with triple "X" comp kits
- Millett custom combat low-profile sights
- Ed Brown beavertail grip safeties and hammers
- S&A mag guides and mainspring housings
- Pachmyer triggers
Custom Work:
- Barrel fitting and throating
- Feed ramp polishing
- Nickel frame work
- Checkering of grip frame or mainspring housing
- Trigger guard grooving
- Ejection port modification
- Frame and slide tightening
- Match-grade barrel link fitting
- Action tuning on all 1911 variants
- •Revolver work: Rebarreling, cylinder installation and timing, forcing cone lengthening, sight installation, hammer spur removal/modification, barrel shortening with front sight resoldering
- •Single Action Army (SAA) specialty: They note that Colt SAA revolvers are "one of our specialties," including complete hammer rebuilds with notch recutting and bolt lug replacement
- •Semi-auto action tuning on single and double action guns
- •Sight work: Cut and crown barrels, install dual crimp front sights, rebuild SAA hammers
Smith Gun builds custom rifles and handles sophisticated rifle gunsmithing:
- •Remove obstructions and fouling from bores
- •Test fire customer's guns (ammo included)
- •Check headspace and firing pin protrusion
- •Remove stuck cases (fired and live)
- •Barrel lapping and straightening
- •Install barrel liners (liner and rebluing included)
- •Chamber and fit barrels to action
- •Set barrel back one turn and correct headspace
- •Lap in bolt lugs
- •Weld on new bolt handles or forge bolt handles
- •Make and install springs (flat and coil)
- •Install safeties (Mark II, Model 70 types, low scope)
- •Install and adjust triggers (standard, single set, double set)
- •Complete rebuilding of English double lockwork
- •Engine turn bolts and extractors
- •Install Sako extractors on Remington 700s
- •Shorten Winchester 94 and Marlin 336 to 16"
- •Machine barrels to lighten
- •Thin and radius trigger or trigger guard
- •Recontour receiver rings
- •Wood finishing: Filled rubbed oil finish, lacquer, polyurethane spray
- •Free float barrels
- •Glass bedding on standard and match rifles (M01 Garand, M1A, etc.)
- •Install recoil pads (included)
- •Install sling swivels (standard, QD, flush mount)
- •Inlet and finish semi-finished stock blanks with checkering, recoil pads, butt plates, grip caps
- •Fiberglass stock bedding
- •Fit and install barreled actions on synthetic stocks
- •Camo painting and black wrinkle painting
- •Install adjustable comb hardware
- •Stock bending for cast on/off, drop modification, toe-in/toe-out
- •Pull balls from stuck loads
- •Remove broken ramrods from barrels
- •Adjust percussion hammers to strike nipples
- •Resolder ribs and thimbles
- •Bore sighting
- •Pattern shotguns (ammo and targets included)
- •Drill and tap barrels or receivers for sights
- •Cut dovetails in barrels
- •Install front sight ramps (lead sweat, screw-on, band type, silver braise)
- •Install pistol sight inserts
- •Build up/construct extra high pistol front sights
- •Install target rib sights on handguns
- •Install front or mid rib beads on shotguns
- •Install receiver sights
- •Scope mounting (drilling and tapping available)
- •Sight in customer's guns at 100 or 200 yards (mounting, checking scope, zeroing—does not include ammo, targets, range fees, or mileage)
- •Remove military sights and clean up
Smith Gun keeps prices competitive by not listing them publicly. Email or call 325-234-3973 for a quote on any service.