Make your mark as an expert gunsmith.
We offer two levels of training:
- Basic Gun Repair.
- Basic Gun Repair is a proven, basic method of gun repair for the gun enthusiast. You'll get the tools required to make precise, intricate repairs. The course includes 31 lessons and exams plus teaching aids, hands- on projects, precision gauges and samples of the Industry's top gun publications and catalogs.
- Advanced Master GunSmith.
- Advanced Gun Repair has been designed to offer professional-quality training. You'll receive the same materials provided in the Basic Course, plus an additional 34 lessons for hands-on, advanced training in precision gun repair. Modern Gun School even provides supplemental materials with practical advice on starting and marketing your own gunsmithing business.
The Basic Course consists of the first 31 lessons taken in order, 1 thru 31. The Advanced Course includes all 65 lessons taken in order, 1 thru 65. Special tools to complete these lessons and projects are provided by Modern Gun School.
LESSON 1a - "Special Teaching Aid" - GUNOLOGY
Comprehensive Supplement to All Lessons
LESSON 1b - 38 Smith & Wesson Chief Special
LESSON 1c - Safety - First, Last and Always
LESSON 2a - Where and How to Begin
LESSON 2b - .45 Colt M-1911
LESSON 2c - Glossary of Terms
LESSON 3a - Beginning Your First Project
LESSON 3b - .38 Smith & Wesson Military & Police
LESSON 3c - Gun Laws and Gun Repairmen
LESSON 4a - Completing Your First Project
LESSON 4b - Ruger Bearcat
LESSON 4c - Sources of Supply
LESSON 5a - Basics of Stock Finishing and Refinishing
LESSON 5b - Ruger Automatic
LESSON 5c - Your Workshop
LESSON 6a - How to Get Professional Stock
LESSON 6b - Charter Revolver
LESSON 6c - Bookkeeping--Legal and Financial
LESSON 7a - Fitting Custom Recoil Pads
LESSON 7b - Colt Single Action Revolver
LESSON 7c - Buying and Selling Firearms
LESSON 8a - Butt Plates, Swivels and More About Pads
LESSON 8b - Hi-Standard Sentinel Revolver
LESSON 8c - Gun Laws and Legislation
LESSON 9a - Checkering Fundamentals
LESSON 9b - Daisy
LESSON 9c - Your Federal Firearms Records
- PROJECT 1 -STOCK REFINISHING
LESSON 10a - Checkering Extras and Carving
(Including How to Make a Checkering Cradle)
LESSON 10b - Crosman 760
LESSON 10c - Public Relations and Advertising
LESSON 11a - Setting up Your Own Shop
LESSON 11b - Remington M-550
LESSON 11c - Firearms Service Records
LESSON 12a - Setting Up Your Workbench
A Most Important Place
LESSON 12b - Remington M-572
LESSON 12c - Gunpowder and Ballistics
LESSON 13a - Your Guide to Hand Tools
LESSON 13b - Remington M-66
LESSON 13c - History and Development
- PROJECT 2 - PRECISION FILING
LESSON 14a - Your Guide to Measuring Tools
LESSON 14b - Remington M-514
LESSON 14c - National Rifle Association
LESSON 15a - How to Choose the Right Power Tools For You
LESSON 15b - Marlin M-39A
LESSON 15c - Beretta 92F
LESSON 16a - More About Power Tools and Their Use
LESSON 16b - Remington M-550-581-582
LESSON 16c - Building Your Library
LESSON 17a - How to Choose Your lathe
LESSON 17b - Savage M-88
LESSON 17c - How to Read Precision Instruments
LESSON 18a - How to Use (Adjust) Your Lathe
LESSON 18b - Savage .22/410 Combination
LESSON 18c - Open and Peep Sights
LESSON 19a - Step-by-Step Soldering
LESSON 19b - Winchester M-200 Series
LESSON 19c - Telescope Sight Mounting
- PROJECT 3 - SILVER SOLDERING
LESSON 20a - Step-by-Step Welding
LESSON 20b - Marlin M-49 and 99 Series
LESSON 20c - Butt Stock Alterations, Recoil Pads and Refinishing Stocks
LESSON 21a - All About Sights
LESSON 21b - Winchester M-94
LESSON 21c - Bluing Equipment, Tools, Polishing, Cleaning and Failures
LESSON 22a - Sights and Scopes
LESSON 22b - Savage M-99
LESSON 22c - Advising Your Customers on Selecting Shotguns, Rifles & Pistols
LESSON 23a - Keep it Clean - A Most Important Lesson
LESSON 23b - Remington M-700
LESSON 23c - Introduction to Handloading
LESSON 24a - Cleaning Supplies, Equipment and Lubricants
LESSON 24b - Remington M-740-742
LESSON 24c - Pricing Your Work
LESSON 25a - Basic Repair Methods -Part 1
LESSON 25b - Remington M-760
LESSON 25c - Actions
LESSON 26a - Basic Repair Methods - Part 2
LESSON 26b - Remington M-788
LESSON 26c - Blowups and Cartridge Nomenclature
LESSON 27a - Basic Barrel Repair
LESSON 27b - Browning Hi-power
LESSON 27c - SAAMI; Unsafe Arms and Ammo Combinations
LESSON 28a - Barrel Rebuilding
LESSON 28b - Winchester M-88
LESSON 28c - Glock 17
- PROJECT 4 - HAND-TOOL FABRICATION
LESSON 29a - Learn Antique Restoration For Fun and Profit - Part 1
LESSON 29b - Marlin M-336
LESSON 29c - Public Relations - How to Write a News Release
LESSON 30a - Antique Restoration in Depth--Part 2
LESSON 30b - Mauser M-98
LESSON 30c - Tables of Measurements
LESSON 31a - The Fine Art of Polishing and Jeweling-- Part 1
LESSON 31b - Ithaca M-37
LESSON 31c - Luger Automatic
LESSON 32a - The Fine Art of Polishing and Jeweling-- Part 2
LESSON 32b - Remington N-11
LESSON 32c - Winchester M-61
- PROJECT 5 - STONE POLISHING
LESSON 33a - Learn Custom Finishing and Plating
LESSON 33b - Winchester M-12
LESSON 33c - Winchester M-26A
LESSON 34a - All About Bluing
LESSON 34b - Remington M-1100
LESSON 34c - J.C. Higgins M-30,22
- PROJECT 6 - BLUING PREPARATION
LESSON 35a - Choosing Inletted Stock
LESSON 35b - Remington M-870
LESSON 35c - Remington M-141
LESSON 36a - Fitting and Shaping the Inletted Stock
LESSON 36b - Winchester M-1400
LESSON 36c - Remington M-8 and 81
LESSON 37a - A Personal Thing - Customizing
LESSON 37b - Winchester M-1200
LESSON 37c - Winchester M-05-07-10
LESSON 38a - More Customizing and Sporterizing
LESSON 38b - Stevens M-311
LESSON 38c - Remington M-721-722
LESSON 39a - Welcome Additions - Accessorizing
LESSON 39b - Mossberg M-500
LESSON 39c - Remington M-31
LESSON 40a - Time to Decide - Full or Part Time
LESSON 40b - Stevens M-94
LESSON 40c - Winchester M-97
LESSON 41. Business Administration. How to set up a part-time shop. Methods of getting started on shoestring financing; pitfalls and how to avoid them. Legal requirements and Economic Facts of Life.
LESSON 42. Headspacing. Why it is important, how each type is measured, breech pressure.
- PROJECT 7 - MICROMEASUREMENT
LESSON 43. Shotgun Chambers. Nomenclature, how measured, corrections, long-forcing cones for pattern improvements, lapping, headspacing, etc.
LESSON 44. Shotgun Bores. Types of barrels, inspection, cutting down barrels, straightening patterns.
LESSON 45. Shotgun Chokes. Cleaning, lapping, types of built-in chokes, custom choking, choke-device installation (Poly-Choke, Cutts, Compensator, Lyman).
LESSON 46. Shotgun Ribs. How to repair, how to reinstall ribs that are loose, how to install Poly-Fether Air ribs.
LESSON 47. Installing Rifle Barrels. Rim Fire--Chambering, headspacing, breeching. Standard replacements and custom barrels.
LESSON 48. Installing Shotgun Barrels. Breaking open single barrels, bolt action shotgun barrels, double barrel break open barrels, pump and semi-automatic barrels.
LESSON 49. Installing Handgun Barrels. How to remove revolver barrels, install replacements, clearance, breeching, coning. Installing semi-auto handgun barrels.
LESSON 50. Installing Center Fire Rifle Barrels. Sub-contracting, contoured, threaded and rough chambered, barrel blanks, pre-timed, pre-contoured, pre-chambered barrels.
LESSON 51. Private Brand Names and Serial Numbers. How to recognize private brand name guns, cross references, data, serial numbers/dates of various models.
LESSON 52. The Money Maker. Common Malfunctions; Tricks of the trade in quick inspection to pinpoint the problem, quick corrections. General servicing and testing techniques.
LESSON 53. Servicing and Building Muzzle Loaders. Cleaning, restoration, building kits for pleasure and profit, etc.
LESSON 54. Accurizing the Colt .45 Automatic. The M1911A1, heliarc welding, inserting stripe into receiver, installation of trigger stops, Micro-sights, BoMar sights.
LESSON 55. U.S. M-1 Carbine (military and commercial). Trigger group disassembly and reassembly, malfunctions and corrections, sporterizing, accurizing, gas piston maintenance.
LESSON 56. Noble Shotguns. Interchangeable parts, where to obtain them, exploded drawings, gun instructions, drawings released by Noble during its existence.
LESSON 57. Crosman M-130 Pistol. One of the most successful single shot pneumatic pistols ever designed. Special tools required, check valve inspection and maintenance, pump-setting adjustments, complete factory service information.
LESSON 58. Crosman M-140 Rifle. Malfunctions, customizing the M140 and M1400, proving trigger pull, lubrication, safety removal and repair.
LESSON 59. Savage M-110 Rifle (CF). Headspacing, breech bolt, sear, variations of models, barrels, ejectors, letters designating variations, basic disassemble, malfunctions and corrections, factory gunsmith service bulletins.
LESSON 60. Remington M-11/48 (Mohawk-48) Semi-Auto Shotgun. Popularity both in production and public acceptance--variations, modifications, design improvement, failures, exploded side views, complete factory service information.
LESSON 61. Browning .22 LR Semi-Auto Rifle (RF). Unique features, bottom ejection, hammerless design, new models, complete Browning guns servicing instructions, malfunctions and corrections, proper maintenance.
LESSON 62. Remington Model 552 Semi-Auto Rifle (RF). Complete factory instructions, variations, field service manuals, disassemble and reassemble, checklist of failures and corrections.
LESSON 63. Beretta Semi-Auto Shotgun. Variations, Magnum, trigger guard assembly, removal and repairs, AL2 ad AL1 complete repair instructions.
LESSON 64. Springfield M-1903 Rifle--History, Model 1901, experimental, Krag modifications, Springfield Arsenal, Rock Island arsenal, complete government field manual, malfunctions and corrections, customizing, assembly, Models 1903, 19031A, 1903A3, commercial use.
LESSON 65. Colt Frame Models "E" and "I" Revolver--Sequence for inspection and repair, basic tools tolerances, complete break-down and cutaway illustrations.
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