[Scorch]

As a gunsmith, I get all sorts of strange requests that are backed by something someone heard from someone else, but no one seems to remember where the original information came from. I have been asked to rechamber a Marlin 336 in 35 Rem to 358 before. If you do even a minimum of checking, you will find it just won't fly. I can do some really cool wildcat stuff, but often that is not what they want. I get people asking me to do questionable work, and I just tell them that they can do it that way if they want, but I cannot as I have my livelihood at stake.

But I am still learning, I suppose. For example, I still have not figured out how to rebore a 30-caliber barrel to 270. Every time I try, the hole gets bigger, not smaller. When I tell people that I cannot make the hole smaller without lining the barrel or rebarreling, they get upset with me because "they read it" somewhere. Go figure. I could go on and on, trust me.