Buying and Collecting Used Guns Without Getting Burned:
A Dealer’s Secrets

Darrell Holland takes you inside the mind of a Professional Gun Buyer! Find out how you can best increase your chances of getting a good firearm for a fair (or better!) price.
           
      The Basics:
Learn

• the 85%-90% rule to maximize your resale value
• the advantages and disadvantages of Gun Show vs Gun Store purchases
• the 4 questions you should ask any seller
• what to avoid doing that will get you chased away from the booth or out of the store

Metal & Wood Condition

• What metal parts give the best indication of use?
• Has the stock been refinished? How you can tell
• What to be careful of with damaged stocks or metal

Bore Condition

• Good and bad bores shown and explained in close up video
• Why a Bad Bore is not usually a Good Buy

Mechanical Condition

• What do you need the owner’s permission to remove? Why would you want to and what should you look for?
• Why is the bolt root a good place to inspect?
• What other parts of the bolt do you need to check? Why?
• Do you know what the shape of an eroded firing pin means? An erosion ring around the firing pin hole?
• How to test a safety
• What to look for with extractors and ejectors, it could be a cheap fix…..or an expensive one. How to tell.

Optics

• Find out what quality, name brands, can add Big Bucks to the value of your purchase
• Why a poor quality scope is sometimes worth less than nothing. How to tell.

      Taking a Trip to a Gun Store

• Learn “Gun Store Etiquette”
• Why what makes no difference to a hunter/shooter buyer makes a BIG difference to a “Collector Buyer”
• See why you’d be wise to “Take a pass” on one Browning BA-22, and buy another one in the same store
• Checking out an SKS Carbine

         What to look for with:
Handguns: Revolvers

• What to look for in the areas of cylinder; Rotational Play, Endshake, Timing, Barrel /Cylinder gap
• How to test Single and Double Action Operation
• Grips
• Finish
• “Carry” wear/rust

Handguns: Semi-Autos

• Clear the gun
• What NOT to do
• How to check safety function
• What operations checks to perform and why
• What is “Push Off”? How do I check for it? Do I want it?
• How to check the grip safety if the gun has one
• General “Tightness”, is this good or bad?
• Back to the store to check out a “Good” Ruger Blackhawk, & a 1911 A1

Shotguns: Pumps/Semi-Autos

• Using a Remington 870, see how to clear and inspect a bore
• A common problem with veteran waterfowl guns
• How to inspect the action slide lock, what to look for
• Learn the proper way to function check the safety
• Why you should dry fire the gun, and how to check the action
• How and why you need to remove the trigger group
• What to look for regarding the stock finish
• Why you should “feel” the barrel
• What is the “dime check”, and why you should do it
• Why do the Europeans “see stars”? What do they mean?
• Staying out of trouble, how to check the barrel length the way the B.A.T.F.E does (it’s the ONLY way it counts!).
• With a Remington 1100 Darrell shows you what to look for on the fore end
• The infamous 1100 “O”-Rings
• How to determine action bar wear or, worse, bending

Shotguns: Pivot (Double or Single) Barrel Guns

• Using a Browning Citori, see how to check for hinge play
• How to inspect action operation
• What to look for on the breech face
• Does it have extractors or ejectors? What to look out for
• Why you need to check the stock length, and what to look for regarding wood condition
• What should you look for with the rib and tang?
• What is the proper safety check?
• Do you need to remove the barrel? Why?
• Is the fore end properly retained, and is the hinge condition sound?

     
Taking a trip to a Gun Show, Darrell emphasizes proper “Gun Show Etiquette”, and inspects and shows you what to look for on the following guns:

• Whitworth Mauser MK I0 (M-98)
• Savage 99
• Nickel finish S&W Model 19
• Norinco AK-47
• Over/Under Shotgun
• Side/Side Shotgun
• AR-15

      Back at the Store, Darrell shows you what to look for on a:

• Remington 700 BDL Varmint
• Remington 760 Pump
• Ruger 10/22 (Different!) .22lr
• Winchester Model 190 .22lr
• Winchester Model 61 Pump .22lr
• Abused Winchester Model 1906 Pump .22lr
• Well cared for Winchester Model 1890 Pump .22lr
• Poorly refinished Winchester Model 1890 Pump .22lr
• Remington Sportsmaster .22lr
• Winchester Model 52
• M-1 Carbine
• M-1 Garand
• Springfield 1903A3 (Remington)

If you don’t watch this course, you have no one to blame but yourself if you “Get Stuck”! Take advantage of his extensive knowledge and gun buying (and building!) experience. Don’t buy another gun without this information!!

Join Master Gunsmith Bob Dunlap as he gives you the benefit of his expertise and experience again, this time with the ubiquitous Colt Model P of 1873, the World Famous Single Action Army. This is of course the gun all of our western heroes of screen, radio (for those of you old enough), and TV made famous in their Oat Operas. Everything you need to know about getting your gun apart and back together with No leftover parts.
 






History

• How long has the gun been produced?
• When was the gun redesigned?
• What is the difference between:
• The old style “Black Powder” Base Pin Stop, and the modern “Smokeless Powder” Base Pin Stop?
• The old and new style Ejector Rod buttons?
• Old and new style hand?
• Colt and the European copies?

Design and Function

• Bob uses two different “Cut-Away”s to show you the cocking cycle.
• What does the Hand do, and how does it do it?
• What is the proper sequence for the hand and bolt to work together?
• What is “Over Cock”?
• What causes the cylinder to time up correctly for loading and ejection?
• Safety’s on the Colt, U.S. Arms, Uberti, and Armi San Marcos.

Disassembly

• One and two piece grips discussed
• Grip frame and mainspring removed
• Function of the “Black Powder” frame base pin screw shown
• Cylinder removed
• Interaction of bolt and hammer cam shown in place
• Removal of trigger/bolt spring, trigger, and bolt shown
• Hammer removal shown and order of disassembly discussed
• Interaction of bolt and hammer cam shown out of gun
• Loading gate removal shown
• Function of the plunger demonstrated, and correction of ”Floppy Gate”
• Removal and disassembly of the ejector shown

Cleaning & Lubrication

• AGI cleaning & lubrication methods shown, along with the reasons for their use

Reassembly

• Making sure you have no parts “Left over”

Common Problems and Their Solution

• Proper cylinder timing and three types of hands discussed
• Correct functioning of the first and second steps of the hand discussed
• Correcting hand length (stretching) shown and necessity and method of heat treating explained
• What is “Transitional Bind”, and how do you correct it?
• For competition guns (Cowboy Action or Quick Draw), do you want your gun timed slightly “slow” or “fast”?
• In what order (trigger pull, hand timing, and bolt timing) should you make your corrections?
• The “Trigger Job” explained and shown
• What are “Positive”, Neutral, and “Negative” trigger systems, and why you want one and NOT the others
• What is a “Modified Colt” trigger system and how it saves you seat tip and hammer notches
• Should you modify the bolt/Trigger return spring to reduce the trigger pull weight?
• Why are the newer spring’s legs separated all the way to the screw hole?
• What is the proper travel for the bolt?
• Proper angles for the sides of the bolt, and fitment in frame slot and cylinder notch
• Modifying the bolt leg to correct timing
• What is the minimum acceptable depth of bolt/notch engagement
• How to contour the top of the bolt to stop “Throw-By”
• Special bolt top contour for maximum speed of engagement for speed shooting
• How to increase depth of engagement
• Recontouring the base of the bolt to reduce spring stress and breakage
• Recontouring the hammer spring to reduce cocking effort
• Cylinder end shake, what is it and how do you get rid of it?
• How the one piece grip fits
• Detail of the Uberti safety system

 
If you noticed how often the terms “explanation”, “demonstration”, “what”, and “how to correct” and  are used, you may be getting some idea of why this course is a “must have” for any owner of the Colt Single Action Army Revolver or its clones.

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Instructed by Master Gunsmith Robert Dunlap.
2 hours, 3 minutes

$39.95