jim's firearms gun smiths are pathetic

[smboudreaux]

the pics speak for themselves. if you don't know what you are doing try learning on something cheaper than my $800 stock. just plain ridiculous.

 

[kengel2]

Did they use a chisel? Probably could have done it better yourself.

 

[CEHollier]

Try to work it out with Jims. If not small claims court. Damn thats pathetic.

 

[smboudreaux]

the bolt knob install looks nearly as bad. i'll get some pics of it up later.

 

[whbonney26]

Man....that is pretty bad. Hope they make it right.

 

[dwr461]

I had a bad experience with "gunsmiths" several years back. I don't choose to use them for anything more complex than changing the sights on a handgun.

Dave

 

[kz45]

i had a real bad experience with them mounting a scope for me, two of my friends had less than satisfactory dealing with them also

 

[Ritten]

Unreal.

It's easily salvageable with a bedding job for the bottom metal from someone who knows what they're doing. Before ANYBODY touches one of my rifles they had better have had a good recommendation from multiple fellow shooters with good past experiences. I'd suggest sending it to William Roscoe at Louisiana Precision. He's fixed multiple shotty screw-ups done by "local gun store smiths" when it comes to precision rifles.

 

[spanky]

I'd suggest bringing the gun to someone like Ritten suggested, getting an estimate for the repair/job done properly, THEN bring that to Jim.

Good idea.

 

[scubasteve]

Maybe I should look for other part-time work, huh?

Good luck getting that fixed.

 

[Bama2LA]

Wow, I'm not a gunsmith nor a long gun expert but that looks bad. I agree that unless it's changing sights on a handgun I wouldn't go to them.

I would taken to a better smith and then show them exactly what good work looks like, but show Jim not one of the 15 year olds behind the counter.

 

[smboudreaux]

Unreal.

It's easily salvageable with a bedding job for the bottom metal from someone who knows what they're doing. Before ANYBODY touches one of my rifles they had better have had a good recommendation from multiple fellow shooters with good past experiences. I'd suggest sending it to William Roscoe at Louisiana Precision. He's fixed multiple shotty screw-ups done by "local gun store smiths" when it comes to precision rifles.

i'm gonna send it to roscoe to get straightened out. to be honest i have no interest in future business with jim's in any capacity. if they couldn't do it right the first time i'm scared to see what they may do trying to repair it. they also did the pillar bed job and bedded the recoil lug. i'll give credit where credit is due. the bedding job in decent.

idk fellas. if you work on rifles like this day in and day out i guess you get complacent.

 

[kz45]

The problem is one of the 15 year olds probably did the work, gunsmith in training.

 

[dzelenka]

Unreal.

It's easily salvageable with a bedding job for the bottom metal from someone who knows what they're doing. Before ANYBODY touches one of my rifles they had better have had a good recommendation from multiple fellow shooters with good past experiences. I'd suggest sending it to William Roscoe at Louisiana Precision. He's fixed multiple shotty screw-ups done by "local gun store smiths" when it comes to precision rifles.

This.

 

[ENVPMBR Shooter]

Sounds like Daniel needs to learn how to do this kind of work too besides plating.

 

[bs875]

Who's the gunsmith that posted on here when he quit at Hebert's? I think people said he was good.

 

[goteron]

Jims threaded a barrel for me and did an outstanding job. But they never gave me the thread protector.

They were also selling extended mag releases for glocks for $25 installed, and $20 for just the part. That was the last straw for me.

I want to like that place for the selection, but I just can't.

 

[headshot]

Vince is good. I run into him everywhere. He's a cool guy and knows his sh**