Smith Gun

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.