Yep . . . been there done that. Don't have a t-shirt, but a few hundred dollars worth of gunsmithing tools instead.
Having the knowledge is just part of why we pay gunsmiths. The other part is it makes no sense for a jackleg hobbyist to accumulate the vast store of specialized tools needed to work on specific guns.
Many such tools are unique to one certain task on a certain model of gun and would never again be used unless encountering the same issue with the same type of gun.
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