I have about 25 years full time in the gunsmithing field. I attended Lassen College in Susanville CA back when Bob Dunlap was the head of the program. Over the years I have worked in a few shops around the West. First in Idaho in a shop where general repair and barrel jobs were the mainstay, then in Southern California for a Colt and Winchester specialty shop where we did restoration work. Then onto another So. Cal. shop where handguns were the bread and butter.
For the last 10 years I have specialized in custom hunting rifles, no longer doing repair because it took too much time away from custom work. I am now transitioning into a new phase of my career, I will limit work Barrel and sight work as I am semi-retiring. This will allow me to do what I have always wanted to do, make the guns that interest me, then I will put them up for sale. By not taking orders for custom work I remove the impatient customer from my life.
I have written one book titled “Wildcat Cartridges, Reloaders Handbook of Wildcat Cartridge Design”. My second book is well along in the writing process, it is about P.O. Ackley an will contain Pressure tested data for many of his more popular cartridges. I have other books in the conceptual stages, all gun related. My writings have appeared in Guns & Ammo, Precision Shooting, Sportsmen’s News, the Varmint Hunter and more.
Fred Zeglin, Gunmaker
4 Comments
December 31, 2008 at 9:47 pm
Do you have an email list I can join?
January 1, 2009 at 12:11 am
Just the RSS feed for entries.
June 9, 2009 at 9:59 am
could you point me to a Mosin Nagant site for gun smithing? I’m a beginner.
September 2, 2009 at 8:34 pm
Fred,
” I had some one look for you today at both the poplar address and on lilac street at you home address. Word is you’ve been gone for some time and have moved to Montana. The boy at the home and old man said gone all summer and gone 2 months. Is that your son and father? You ignored my recent request for info on face book now your account is nonexistent. You can’t operate like that. It’s wrong and rude.
Do you recall a few e-mails back where a friend of mine told me there was nothing at the Poplar St. address, just a strip mall with a mail outlet? Your response was “I apologize for being remiss in contacting you. FYI… we have not moved, I never could fit my lathe in the post office box and still find room to work there.
I would like you to return my action and my 500 $ less any work you have accomplished. Ship to Perry Klein, 62 Cascade road, Ketchikan, Ak, 99901. You have two weeks before I initiate legal action.