Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Gunsmithing G'Dam gunsmith

So I am working on a Mannlicher project. I send the barreled action off to a smith to have it cut. Because it needs to align just so with the end of my stock, I mark the length I want on a piece of tape and send him some pictures of how it should look in the stock (I did not send the stock, inasmuch as I was working on it.)

These are photos I sent him




So what comes back in the mail, after two months?





He decided to ignore my tape mark--which happened to be 18" from the receiver face, and cuts it to 18" from the beginning of the threads instead because that is "a pretty common length." It is over 1/2" too short for my stock.

WTF is that about? I can of course cut off the stock, re-inlet the fitting for the nose cap, and re-taper the forend, but that is a bunch of work.

By the way, this gunsmith does not frequent this board, so you need not fear if you use any of our guys.