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Dope.

What a badass vehicle

For the classes I went out the some of the local gun shows and bought broken guns to fix and restore. I don't know if they still offer it but when I attended in 2017 I was able to get a dealer account at Brownells to purchase the extra tools and materials I needed for blueing.

Thank you great information!

Thank you for the info. I'm new to all of this, considering your school. Question, can one get financial aid to recieve help for all supplies needed? Also, will I eventually need a specific gun or so for practice later or stuff like that ? Again very new with this. Online courses 😊

To anyone saying you don’t get to touch firearms at all. Yes this is true but I got a BA in Criminal justice and not once did I arrest someone, or over see and pass judgement on a court case. It’s an academic school with a lot of ready. It’s a new program so it’s probably going to be shit until there is experience in building better curriculum.

I really like how you plan on doing things with the machining program which is to me the absolute most important part of completion for anyone who can't go to a school weather obligationd=s or distance, etc. Just get that Manufacturing program under your belt and I like the idea of the other courses with AGI and inOregon that's kind of what I had to do was get my associates in Manufacturing here in Detroit which bec ause of the motor city had some amazing choices then what you learn with in my case AGI is just that much easier. Hope things continue to go well for you.

SDI is a scam. Literally everything they're going to teach you can be found on TH-cam. Use your GI Bill for a trade school on how to weld or machine. SDI is nothing more than a Lego tutorial on how to "build" (assemble) mediocre guns.

How was rsr not mentioned

Your videos are awesome. Really appreciate the effort you put out there for all of this. I am going through Tools Lab, Hydro-Dipping, and Detail Stripping and all of your stuff has been a great guide.

I hope mine comes out as good as yours

Most channels say SDI company is the laughing stock of the gun smithing community and a GI bill scam. Even Garand Thumb dropped them as a sponsor. I wouldn’t take the risk.

My trigger lost its spring while it was shipping, I had to cut and fit a new one myself.

<sigh> How to buy a $500 gun, put $250 worth of parts in..and still be left with a $500 gun. Marvelous.

If you can turn a barrel bushing that easily with your fingers, its too loose. No, you definately don't want to polish it, that would only make it looser. This is why Browells and Wilson sell a BUSHING WRENCH. Sure, visual and magnification is OK, but looking at witness marks FIRST would be a good step.

Seriously, that was a week 5 lesson in Advanced Armorer? My friend, you got took. (that's slang for taken advantage of). I'm just a self taught guy but I'd expect checking and fitting hood length, reaming a chamber, lug cutting a barrel, fitting a barrel bushing and up linking. If I recall, these are 8 week courses so if this is week 5 what do they teach in week 1, what a trigger is or what a hammer does?

I call bs. Its a scam. that's why they sponsor the big gun channels for 5k per.

Started my checkering class this week. Thanks for these videos

Young Laura Smith Robert Gonzalez Linda

As a life long firearms enthusiast, these seem to be very basic videos. Do I have to go back to day one of my firearms collection? I’m watching your videos due to I’m considering enrolling in SDI.

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I’m homebased and Zander’s is one of my distributors.

TEL ME THE SIZE OF PULET I HAVE LIKE THIS PISTOL 1914

They give you 4.5 oz cans now. The base coat is now a khaki tan. The film pattern is still the same. It all comes in a long tubular box.

What brand are those woodworking chisels

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What’s better SDI or AGI

Johnson Carol Clark William Moore Charles

Hello sir, I'm a fellow SDI grad. Great video. Do you have plans for that press?

You need to take an English 101 class before you start. Some instructors are ridiculous hard asses on proper sentence structure. the fact that you know the material is beside the point. But if you use a comma instead of a period you'll flunk an assignment. Some of them are relentlessly ridiculous about it. Because gunsmithing is a course that proper sentence structure is critical and all.

Great video. Really appreciate the insight. Just wanted to let you know I started my home based FFL business here in SC back in April 2024 and was able to get a Zanders account. I can send you the account rep name if interested.

After looking around on the internet a couple days it seems like the general consensus is to start with becoming a Gunsmith's Apprentice, but I'm honestly not sure where to start looking for an apprenticeship for gunsmithing. Any advice?

Moore Michael Allen Laura Robinson Mary

Great info! Thank you for doing this.

Lee Deborah Smith Michael Thomas Frank

Great video 👍🏾

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My nose cap did not come with holes as well.

hey bud, you may not know how to go about this, but I figured I'd ask anyway. I lost the 2 springs that went to the decocker and I've looked everywhere and can't find a replacement , even at canicks website, nothing!!! I'm stumped and kinda panicking

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@Tradesman Firearms do you know the damage you are doing by referring United States veterans to SDI? It is a complete and utter waste of nearly 22k. SDI rakes in multi-millions of dollars teaching online gunsmithing courses and they are terrible instructors teaching a bunch of irrelevant crap. I strongly urge anyone that has intentions of pursuing ANY sort of gunsmithing to find a 'real' instructor and do it in person. Nobody is going to take a certificate or a degree from SDI seriously. At best, you will be able to work the line at Ruger for a little better than min. wage.

So basically, if you live in the barracks, go down range and find yourself a wife so you can get into a house w/ a shop and attend SDI. Roger that!

Great video easy explanations and great video work. One thing I was taught was to put a little of your new oil into the new oil filter as you are changing it so its primed.

Awesome!

Thanks man, this was a nice video

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What’s the best way to contact you?

This is a great video. I really wish SDI would just break down a list of provided required and recommended. The labs page has a ton of recommended stuff that they repeat again and again.