The Real Gunsmith – Gunsmith Services at Randy's Custom Rifles

one of the reasons because of my experience there are very few people left anymore that have the years of experience building rifles that I do and we've got people that have have a business that build one particular rifle around one particular action that's not what I do I build a rifle around almost any rifle action that's that's that's proper that's strong enough that's feasible to build what you want I build a rifle you know with wood stocks as I say with fiberglass stocks takedown rifles long-range rifles benchrest rifles I feel that my rifles are the most accurate rifles built by perhaps anybody in the country or around the world because I've been doing this for pretty much my whole lifetime 52 years I'm 67 years old I don't see myself slowing down changing anything and when you come to Randy's custom rifles to have a rifle building that's that's what you're getting you're getting that experience you know we have a lot of people to build a rifle around the Remington 700 platform that's fine that's fine but that's all they know they don't know how to how to take perhaps you know a German you know military Mauser action perhaps an Enfield action or a Springfield action or solve our older Winchester actions or anything of that sort even order to start even how to barrel them even how they work I can take most any of these actions and modify and to accept all all sorts of different types of cartridges so my conversion work is almost endless and in that conversion work I'm talking about properly feeding cartridges from magazine to work properly and so forth and you know not only from that aspect but to develop loads with my you know 57 years of reloading experience reloading experience alone is is irreplaceable for somebody to go out here today and be able to have contact with anybody like I have specifically with les Bowman because the way that he was he was connected with people around the world you get a rifle that is basically built around really the ideas and the processes that people developed all these hundreds of people had developed over the years it isn't like just all of a sudden saying well you know I'd like to stick a rifle together and and sell a rifle in two or three calibers that's not what we do here i building chamber rifles from everything from a 22 long rifle 17 caliber rifles all virtually all chamberings that have any applicable situation for the components that we have available i was liable for ass bullets and anything I'll build anything from a 22 long rifle a 17 caliber rifle to a 50 BMG everything in between so this is what you get when you come to Randy's custom rifles this is a full service rifle shop this is not you know just a generic chop here that builds a rifle around two or three calibers around one stock your choice the two scopes or something and that's what you've got no that's not what you get when you're coming here you get the whole thing when you come to Randy's custom rifles and my hands are on every rifle I'm Randy's custom rifle I do all the work nobody else doesn't work I don't have to depend on anybody else than my suppliers that I buy you know match-grade rifles barrels from or maybe maybe a custom action or whatever from there I take it from there I build everything and I want every rifle that comes to a customer to be a package in other words I want that rifle in the caliber that they have desired I want to perform up to the task that they expect and loads developed for that particular rifle you know and they can take that you know I like to sell my rifles with perhaps 100 rounds of ammunition people that hand load or they can have somebody hand load at farm there are hand and loading companies that will take that loading information load the information below the ammunition for you and that's what we like to do because you could go to somebody and have them build a nice-looking custom rifle but you're at the mercy of going down to the local you know sporting goods store that sells ammunition and buying a box off sixes or seven millimeter mags and it's a crapshoot whether it's going to shoot worth a darn all my rifle shoot you shoot accurately you know I look I look in most of the calibers up to 30 caliber I look for a rifle hunting rifle that will shoot somewhere sub half minute of angle accuracy or better a lot of them shoot half that so I build a bench rest rifle it's probably going to shoot under tenth of an inch size groups of benchrest rifle so this this is what you get and it's it's a situation where let's say that you have that you have you know the desire to tissue bench rest where you can gun to Randy's custom rifles and have your bachelor s rifle built they said you have in all the ability and the desire to hunt internationally you come to me and have a takedown rifle built in a multi barrel set to hunt around the world and for any situation that you've got you don't have to go to one guy to get this done one guy to get something else done you get it all done right here and you know maybe it maybe you've got an idea to shoot it longer range maybe you're just maybe you're just the guy that just likes to punch targets it doesn't even hunt we can satisfy that need and you know there folks out here that have disabilities and so forth and I I can build a rifle for a lot of different needs for people who have disabilities and I've done so and the people have been very very satisfied I'm glad to work with with both men and women or or the younger generation children to build a rifles I built many rifles for for for you know a father offers a rifle for a son or mother orders a rifle for a son or daughter and you know satisfy those needs and so that's that's what you get where if you go to a lot of a lot of shops they can't they can't satisfy at all your daughter wants to shoot a rifle she's smaller stature she's a younger person she needs a different dimension stock she needs a light hand your life well maybe in a smaller caliber for the most part you don't get that when you go to a lot of lot of places that that might happen to build when I described it just kind of the generic rifle this this is it this is what you get if you don't like it so what get anything you want you've come to Randy's custom rifle it's just you know it's just a fact of what we do because everybody's needs are different over the years the firearms aspect has changed rifle buildings changed somewhat you know rifle building started out with with melt and was all blued steel and and wood in very pretty wood stocks finally checkered with stocks and that's that's probably my most interest but over the years fiberglass stocks came into being and so 35 years ago I started building rifles with fiberglass stocks and I built just literally hundreds of rifles with fiberglass stocks and both you know hunting rifles benchrest rifles target rifles long-range rifles and so forth and I I see all this to continue to do it fiberglass stocks and so forth the wood stocks they're never going to go out there's a lot of people that just wouldn't hold a fiberglass cocked rifle I I feel that you know those people have have their reasons and so you know I'm here to meet that that need you know they want a Woodstock trifold for a fiberglass stocked rifle about twenty years ago I had somebody come to me that had a need for a rifle that was broke down with two pieces so I said well you want to take down rifle and I had had my hands on over the years various Rigby takedown rifles and I paid close attention to how they were put together very simple and I knew that right from the start that I could build a better rifle than Rigby built because everybody that that built a rifle you know people that build a rifle Rigby there's various hands on that project it was my hands that were on this full project so I could take the component parts and build a takedown rifle and a write from scratch and have control over every aspect of that rifle so I built a takedown rifle for this client and it was not very long because his neighbor was very close to Pihl Ruger and so he visited the bill Ruger and he showed bill Ruger my takedown rifle and Bill Ruger said it was it's a very sound design and it would you know continue to work very well for many years how I designed it it's very simple and so that's something that you know I found kind of a niche in that building takedown rifles and not everybody wants to take down rifle but a takedown rifle is extremely handy because when you travel you know globally fly anywhere it's very difficult to maneuver around an airport with a very long rifle case this puts things in a case about half the length you got two pieces and one of those smaller cases can can be put in the Cabela's larger size duffle bag and you know declared at the airport and they see to do that and everything is all cleared and you can travel the world like that hunting internationally with with one of my takedown rifles and be pretty free from from from thieves because anybody that's traveled airports with firearms know that there's a lot of there's a lot of stealing that goes on so this rifles out of sight out of mind and I'm going to run up and steal your Cabela's duffel bag they get her run up and steal a long hard gun case but they have no clue that this takedown rifles in one of these so it's kind of a niche in itself because you can travel so easily and you can have a single barrel gun two barrel gun three barrel gun and you know so you can go someplace and you can you can hunt varmint or small smaller mid-sized game or large game or dangerous game perhaps all with the same with the same action in stock just by simply changing the changing the barrel to give you another caliber and maybe changing scopes which is the best way because then you've got to scope zeroed to each each rifle barrel and these days ripe will shoot just as accurate as a one piece conventional rifle the way that I made them because everything is machined true and in machine to less than than a half of thousands of and in every aspect so that everything repeats itself so there's not a question of you know an in accuracy situation and of course ever everything has as a where aspect but over the years as something might where here there it can be brought back to the shop and and I can I can fine-tune that back to work just like it did and I build it so you know and really you don't have to take down the rifle very often you go on one time or two a year or wherever and maybe leave your gun together or you take your gun apart in on your travel so it doesn't have to be taken apart or put back together you know very often you can telephone me so Randy Selby Randy's custom rifles you can email me at Randy's custom rifles and I basically I don't have I don't have a catalogue per se I've got a lot of rifle showing on my website some of the things that I do I build it as I say I build rifles for almost any aspect and I prefer because everybody that that contacts me has a different need everybody wants a rifle for a different purpose in a different caliber and and so forth so I'm very glad to visit with anybody that wants to order a rifle and satisfy whatever that need might happen to be I also do a considerable amount of rebelling rifles fine tuning rifles and so forth and so if you've got a rifle that needs that needs re barreled I can take care of all that for you and [Music] basically a one on one good conversation on the phone I mean it's fine to email me but once you've emailed me and we've got an idea what you want we need to talk you need to talk about what your real needs are and what I can really do for you and and how I can help you the best is to suit your need you know for whatever that need might happen to be within within perhaps the budget that you that you have to be able to do a project like that it varies it varies to do with component parts sometimes it takes a little while to to to be able to get these in-house sometimes they're in stock like you know match-grade rifle barrels we use nothing but mass grade rifle barrels in this shop to ribeiro a rifle or build a rifle and there's there's there's some barrels that I mean we can pick up and have them here in a week some we have to wait months for there's some you have to wait years for so it all depends on what your want is and what those component parts to make up that complete rifle are if they're in stock you know I can move a project through you know in a month in in a couple of months if there's some of these things we have to wait on it can be six months it could be a year it could be year and a half it just all kind of depends but the average weight at this point in time you know is a couple months to get a rifle project finished and part of that time is we live in country we live in part of the country where we have weather changing systems we have quite a bit of wind I've got to have still days to be able to shoot a rifle and work up load so part of that time frame to get a rifle done completed is governed by you know we might have a whole week of wind well you know that's going to make the project a little longer we might not have wind for a week I might have plenty of opportunity so that's going to be done quicker and you know wood wood stock trifles you can depend on stocks for a rifle built from a blank you can consider five six eight months depending on where we're at in our workload you can consider waiting that long for a wood stock checkered and chequered rifle you know for what you want fiberglass stocked rifles we all know various manufacturers make fiberglass stock to buy a fiberglass stock we fit it to the to the barrel action bottom metal make sure everything fits right it's all properly vetted this sort of a project goes together obviously much quicker than something where there's a lot of hand detail and time-consuming effort into building that rifle to end up with with with with something that's done that you can help you and I suggested people that they want they want to hunt you know come fall because I'm season started opening around September and so forth in some places of the country clear on up into December I suggest that kind of by the first a year of a year that maybe I ought to start thinking about getting hold getting hold of meet to build your rifle so that you can you can use that rifle some before you go to the field to hunt it wouldn't come see it it's going to be all ready it's all done some matter you're doing your part and I don't encourage somebody to you get it done this week and next week you go on I think you ought to use your rifle for a little while before you before you go hunt with it so that kind of gives you an idea how long it takes to get things done and reburial projects a lot of refurb projects sometimes a couple week turnaround situation but that of course depends on the barrel choice which which could be yours or maybe you leave it up to me if you leave it up to me i go to i go to a barrel barrel company that that has a barrel you know in stock and i can order it in and have it in here in a week and i can have your rifle here your eye for a barrel in a couple of weeks or if you want to load work i've done it be maybe a couple weeks longer than that it gives you an idea of what you're looking at and i always keep these smaller projects moving right on through well not because i've always got some of these larger projects in in the in the process of being built and then naturally takes longer and I don't want to hold up somebody that's got a set for a barrel job I've run those right through as I can so that the client gets gets fairly quick service and can be back shooting and enjoying this firearm I know very few people they can do what I do I'm one of the few people I think left in this country that do what I do because of the point of time when I started building rifles and how things have changed over the years for people's needs in the various component parts and yes it's not only the gunsmith and yen to things and building rifles that things are changing and and somewhat dying out we've got gunshot a handful of gunsmithing schools across the country you can go and learn some of these things but I can tell you having been to a gunsmithing school that you don't get off of that gunsmithing school when I got out of gunsmithing school because what I went to went went there with and left there with so the average guy he's pretty limited he's pretty limited as to what he can do and what he can do and that perhaps has some application on why we don't see folks like myself so much anymore most of us are getting some age on us that are in the in the gun the gun making world and when we worked on there's a few to replace us but not many not many

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Length: 22min 1sec (1321 seconds)

Published: Mon Aug 14 2017