2010 Brownells Gunsmith Career Fair Exhibitors
Brownells
200 South Front Street
Montezuma, IA 50171
www.brownells.com
Founded as a gunsmithing business in 1939 by Bob Brownell, under Bob and his son Frank, we’ve grown to be the world’s largest supplier of quality gunsmithing tools, gun parts and accessories. With the third generation of Brownells, Pete, serving as president, the company is still guided by his grandfather’s principles; provide the best selection of the best products, back them with great, personal service and guarantee the customer’s satisfaction, 100%. Bob’s support of the industry began early when he first published his gunsmith’s newsletter and encouraged gunsmiths to exchange their knowledge of firearms through the sharing of tips and techniques he called, “Kinks®”. That same care for the industry we all love continues as we conduct events like this Career Fair and through services like our Brownells Business Advantage program and our aggressive support of the NRA and its efforts to protect the rights of gun owners. Enjoy the Career Fair!
Sinclair International
2330 Wayne Haven Street
Fort Wayne, IN 46803
www.sinclairintl.com
Sinclair International, Inc. has been making high quality products for the serious handloader and precision rifleman for over 20 years. We manufacture our own innovative shooting and reloading products and carry some of the best shooting and reloading products available from other manufacturers. Every member of our sales staff reloads and shoots on a regular basis. Customers from over 50 countries rely on this experience to help them with product selection. The entire Sinclair staff is constantly striving to provide you with the highest level of customer service possible. We work hard to earn our customer's loyalty because we want you as our customer for many years, not just one order.
Shooting Search, Inc.
1740 Lake Markham Rd.
Sanford, FL 32771
www.shootingsearch.com
Shooting Search was founded by Bob Zahra, CPC, to provide professional key employee search services to the shooting, hunting, knife, law enforcement/tactical and outdoor industry. Bob Zahra is a Certified Personnel Consultant with twenty-five years of executive search experience. He is an active member and past chairman of the board of the National Association of Executive Recruiters, a Life Member of the National Rifle Association, NSSF member, avid shooter, hunter and knife accumulator.
Gander Mountain
6801 120th Ave
Kenosha, WI 53142
www.gandermountain.com
Gander Mountain is a leading specialty retailer serving outdoor lifestyle enthusiasts who enjoy hunting, fishing, camping and boating. Gander Mountain provides a unique retail experience founded upon our "We Live Outdoors®" culture and theme. Our stores offer broad and deep assortments of competitively priced outdoor equipment, accessories, apparel and footwear, combined with a unique store environment and an emphasis on customer service based on our store associates' extensive product knowledge and outdoor-related experience.
Arizona Shooting Range & Emporium.
4325 N. State Road 7
Fort Lauderdale, FL 33319
www.arizonashootingrange.com
Arizona Shooting Range is the largest gun dealer in the south east. We have over 3000 guns in stock. Our main business is black rifles, concealed weapons and some hunting. We have been in business since 1992 and have expanded from 500 square feet to over 8000 square feet. We have an 8 position range used by civilian, local law enforcement and federal agency's.
Safe T Bullet
4101 102nd Ave
Allegan, MI 49010
www.safetbullet.com
The Safe T Bullet is the only product currently on the market that is visual from 360 degrees. Safe T Bullet when properly installed into the chamber of the firearm guarantees that the firearm has been inspected, unloaded, and is safe at one simple glance. Safe T Bullet's mission is to provide the highest quality product and reliability for all customers by putting "the customer first" and being manufactured in the USA. Our goal is to eliminate the accidental discharge of all firearms.
Grandmasters L.L.C Power Custom
29739 Hwy. J
Gravois Mills, MO 65037
www.powercustom.com
Manufacturer of custom components for single action revolvers, 10-22 rifles, AR-15s and AK-47s. Ron was one of the first to build heavy-barreled PPC revolvers and refine their accuracy. He specializes in alterations to stainless steel revolvers made by Smith and Wesson and Ruger Double Action Revolvers. Ron has not only been instrumental in the design of firearms, but through the use of advanced Gunsmithing techniques, has designed and patented many tools and accessories.
Today, Power Custom mainly specializes in building and marketing custom fixtures and accessories for gunsmiths and serious competitors. They manufacture the Series I and Series II Stoning Fixture which will help reduce the trigger pull on over 30 different guns. They also manufacture after market accessories for Ruger Single Actions, Ruger 10-22, AK-47, and AR-15’s.
Paducah Shooters Supply
3919 Cairo Road
Paducah, KY 42001
www.pssguns.com
Paducah Shooters Supply is a family owned and operated hunting, shooting and archery supply store with over 9000 square feet of showroom packed with a variety of merchandise to meet every customer's needs. We are a Remington Arms Premier Warranty Station (1 of only 8 in the United States) and a factory authorized warranty repair center for Browning, Winchester, Glock, Marlin, NEF, H&R and more. We have over 30 years experience with all types of firearm repairs and are comitted to customer care. We carry a large parts inventory of new and old parts to fit all kinds of guns, even the hard to find!
American Pistolsmith Guild
3919 Blue Creat Lane
San Antonio, TX 78232
www.americanpistol.com
The American Pistolsmiths Guild (APG) is dedicated to the pistolsmithing craft and to the shooters and customers who patronize the profession. The APG purpose "…to promote a standard for quality, honesty, and workmanship in the pistolsmithing trade by ascertaining the competency of anyone before they are recognized and admitted to the Pistolsmith Guild, and to provide a free exchange of technical data between the members of the Guild, for fostering a fraternal feeling among its members and to do the things that stand for the benefit of the organization and the advancement of the pistolsmithing profession." The APG affords members the opportunity to display their work and meet the shooting public. APG also provides space on the Internet, promotes the presence of members through advertising, promotes the exchange of information between members and other Guild organizations, and gives pistolsmithing customers a source for quality workmanship.
STI International
114 Halmar Cove
Georgetown, TX 78628
www.stiguns.com
In the 1980's the founder of STI, Virgil Tripp was hand crafting competition 1911 pistols using the same components and techniques of other gunsmiths of that era. Seeing the need for product improvement, Tripp Research Inc., now STI International led the firearms industry into the precision world of "EDM" hammers, sears, and other components. STI then pioneered the "MODULAR" frame which provided a multitude of desirable features such as a checkered grip assembly, checkered trigger guard, 35% weight reduction, less felt recoil, higher capacity, and repeatable dimensions. STI then introduced complete, high quality pistols and leads the industry again with precision subassemblies in progressive stages of factory completion. STI fitted slide/frames or shortblocks allow gunsmiths to add their own finishing touches.
Wilson Combat
2234 CR 719
Berryville, AR 72616
www.wilsoncombat.com
At Wilson Combat, we hand-build our pistols and long guns; still hand-match and hand fit every part. The Wilson Team includes the best-trained and most experienced Master Gunsmiths anywhere, every day defining the art and science of custom gun building. We're continuing to increase our accessory and parts selection across all lines. We've not only added more choices, but we continue to upgrade the parts we supply. Whether it's a drop-in part, or something that needs to be custom-fit to your gun, if it's from Wilson you can rely on receiving the highest value in the industry. The parts we sell are the same ones we use in our guns, which means they are continually tested, refined, and compared to everything on the market.
Independent Studio Services
9545 Wentworth Street
Sunland, CA 91040
www.issprops.com
Independent Studio Services is one of the largest prop houses in the world supplying props to motion picture and television productions. The armory at ISS has been providing weapons and firearms from antique muzzle loaders to belt fed machine guns for many years. We have one of the most vast working gun rooms in the country with approximately 15,000 firearms on hand. In addition to supplying Hollywood and productions throughout the US and abroad, ISS also works with various companies contracted to do foreign weapons training for the military as well as law enforcement sales. The gun room staff consists of many experts in the fields of gunsmithing, machinists, armorers, salesmen and qualified firearms trainers.
Longhorn Brass LLC.
502 S. Animas
Trinidad, CO 81802
At Longhorn Brass we fire form custom brass for custom rifles. We offer .223 A.I. and will soon offer 6 PPC and .300 Jarrett. We use only new brass, not range pickups. All of our actions are accurized and blueprinted, are barrels are professionally chambered. Actions are matched to barrels to ensure proper alignment of bolt face/chamber interface. This produces very high quality brass for our customers. We don't do quantity. We do quality!
Les Baer Custom, Inc
1804 Iowa Drive
Le Claire, IA 52753
www.lesbaer.com
Les Baer Custom, Inc has been universally acknowledged as the leader in the development of precision built custom firearms that simply out perform any other guns their product categories. Custom manufacturing of 1911 style custom pistols. Custom AR - 15 style rifles. Precision bolt action rifles. Custom 1911 parts and AR-15 style parts. We continue to earn praise from the world's most discriminating shooters. Your one stop source for "true" custom 1911 style parts and AR-15 style parts.
Nu Line Guns, Inc
8150 County Road 4055
Rhineland, MO 65069
www.nulineguns.com
Nu-Line Guns, Inc. is a corporation founded in 1949. We pride ourselves in the high level of quality workmanship that our gunsmiths do here at Nu-Line. We have a stringent hiring process for the gunsmiths here, and they have a combined experience of over 150 years. Here at Nu-Line we also have a final inspection department that goes over every gun inside and out before shipping to insure the quality we have talked about. All of the staff at Nu-Line Guns own and shoot guns, and most hunt, including our office staff. They are dedicated to wildlife preservation, hunting and shooting sports, gun safety and the firearms industry in general. Over the 57 years that we have offered gunsmithing, we have developed specialty machines, tools and techniques to service your gun properly. We are known to have taken jobs that most other shops turn down.
C.O. Arms
5599 Old Millington Rd
Millington, TN 38053
www.coarmsusa.com
C. O. Arms is a blend of American tradition, high-tech machining technology and men and women who truly love to build guns. In today’s market of “build em fast” attitudes, we have chosen to take a different approach. Each 1911 we manufacture is treated with equal patience and equal time to achieve the ultimate in quality and craftsmanship. We have chosen to build our guns to insure our customers a quality side-arm that is reliable time after time. Our promise is that we will continue to build our guns the tried and true way, 100% made in America, building firearms the way our forefathers taught us to do. C. O. Arms…An American Legend.
The Gun Works of Central New York
5366 State Route 31
Verona, NY 13478
www.cnygunworks.com
Gary Donovan has been gunsmithing since 1992. He and his wife, Debra, started out in a small room in the basement of their home. They now have four full time gunsmiths on the premises. Gary apprenticed at White Dog Gunsmithing in Ilion, NY and completed the Smith & Wesson Armors course at Piedmont College. He has also trained at the Remington Arms factory in Ilion, NY and at Benjamin Sheridan Crossman in Bloomfield, NY The Gunworks has since become a nationwide gunsmithing service center. The Gunworks is also a Premier Warranty Station for the Remington Arms Company. Gary specializes in 740 & 742 rifles, as well as all shotguns, including all over and under Remington shotguns.
White Oak Armament
101 S. Perry St
Carlock, IL 61725
www.whiteoakarmament.com
White Oak Armament is a company created by John Holliger and friend Jeff Miller to exist as a division of White Oak Precision. This was driven by the demand to offer the accuracy minded shooter, gunsmith or home builder, the same hand picked high quality parts that go into building White Oak Precision’s match-winning AR-15 upper receivers. All of our parts are individually inspected to ensure that our customers get only the highest quality parts available on the market today. We will NEVER sell mil-spec rejects. We guarantee 100% satisfaction on all of the parts we sell. One Reliable Source - For custom gunsmiths and discriminating shooters alike, White Oak Armament is your one reliable source.
Cylinder & Slide Inc.
245 East 4th St
Fremont, NE 68025
www.cylinder-slide.com
Cylinder & Slide Inc, located in Fremont NE, is a true custom pistolsmith shop. We specialize in building your custom pistol or revolver one at a time. There is no assembly line work, our pistolsmiths build each custom pistol or revolver from start to finish. We manufacture high quality custom parts for the 1911, Browning Hi-Power and Smith& Wesson Revolver and are used by several firearm companies. We also offer pistolsmithing classes for the 1911 and Smith & Wesson Revolver.
Blue Wonder
1585 W Sam Houston Parkway, Suite 200
Houston, TX 77043
www.bluewonder.us
Novum Solutions was founded in 2001 by a group of hunters and shooters dedicated to producing unique solutions to problems facing other hunters and shooters in the gun care arena. The first products introduced, Blue Wonder™ Gun Cleaner and Gun Blue, at Shot Show 2002 were awarded "Best of Show" in the General Hunting and Shooting Category. They have since gone on to receive wide publicity in the industry and acceptance by consumers as the premier line of gun care products.
Lauer Custom Weaponry/DuraCoat
3601 129th St
Chippewa Falls, WI 54729
www.lauerweaponry.com
LCW is known for their custom AR15 style rifles, 1911 style pistols, precision rifles, and suppressors to meet all of your interests and needs. LCW is the manufacturer of DuraCoat, the only world-wide used commercially manufactured and packaged firearm finishing system that has the combination of versatility, durability, and user friendly finishing characteristics. No pre-heating or baking.
Ruger Firearms
1 Lacey Place
Southport, CT 06890
www.ruger.com
Sturm, Ruger & Co., Inc. is one of the nation's leading manufacturers of high-quality firearms for the commercial sporting market. The only full-line manufacturer of American-Made firearms, Ruger offers consumers over 400 variations of more than 70 products across 25 product lines. From the ubiquitous 10/22® and Mini-14® Rifles, to the new and exciting HARD-R™ Line of products: SR-22™, SR-556™, LCR™ and LCP™ - you will find a rugged, reliable firearm to meet every shooter's needs.
