Halfcocked Gunsmithing

I took in my M&P shield to get some work done on it. I had Frank change out my loaded chamber indicator to something more low profile, changed the sites to the trijicon hd night sights, and added a apex tactical action enhancement kit/​trigger. Frank quoted me an awesome price and a completion day of about two weeks due to being backed up. He called me back in five days to let me know the work was complete and I could come pick up my firearm. Gun looks great! Only minor complaints I have is, you can see where he wasn’t exactly on point with the pin punch and hit the polymer a little bit. No biggie on that though just minor cosmetic blemishes. I was a little upset I asked for all my old parts and only got about half of them. I was afraid at first he didn’t change out the sear block and some of the springs, but I could tell by the pin it was fully broken down and I don’t see why he wouldn’t change it out if he already had it seperated. Must have just kept or tossed the manufacturer block. He also lost my oem 6 round clip, but definitely made up for it by giving me an oem 7 round for free. Ammo is a wee pricey here. Other than those things though I am overall satisfied. Frank is an awesome guy! He has some fair prices on his small selection of firearms in store. Super friendly and helpful. I had an issue with a gun lock and he walked me next door to a locksmith that they seem to work a lot with. The work got done quickly. I haven’t shot my firearm since the changes, but intend to go today. Unless something goes wrong at the range I would definitely give Frank my business again. Almost half the price of what Clovis Gunsmithing quoted me, and with better business hours too.

I needed to have a stock shortened to my length of pull on my beautiful brand new Italian hand engraved over under shotgun and asked Frank if that was something he could do. Well, he shortened it to the correct length… but the quality of the work was very sub parr to say the least. The biggest issue was that he used JB Weld to fill in the low spots and glue the spacer to the wood. Totally unprofessional and unacceptable.
He may be an excellent gunsmith with very fair prices but the beautiful wood on my fine Italian shotgun needs some refinishing and is now marred in several places… a wood worker he is not. In hindsight, I should have sacrificed the extra time and taken it to the only Gunsmith in town that could do the job correctly… and that is what I have done.
Sorry Frank, you are a very nice guy and I wish you well but in good consciousness I can’t recommend Halfcocked Gunsmithing to others.