Learn how to repair wood stocks, bed a rifle for accuracy, tune a rifle's trigger and select aftermarket parts that will enhance your rifle-shooting ability and take your gun's potential to the next level! From hunting rifles to tactical and benchrest precision, even today's modular AR-15 and AR-10, author Patrick Sweeney covers them all and shows you how to gunsmith your own rifles at home, and rifle upgrades that maximize their true potential. Do you have a rifle that just won't group, no matter what you try? Pick up a copy of Gunsmithing: Rifles, 9th Edition and learn why--then fix it yourself!

This revised edition includes chapters to help you:

• upgrade today's Ruger 10/22


• accurize a precision bolt action


• complete essential projects for the AR-15 and AR-10


• learn specific gunsmithing tips to improve your hunting and long-range rifles

New additions in this edition include:

• AK-47 and AK-74 enhancements


• installing slings, rails, and suppressors


• inspecting and accurizing the M1 Garand and M1A!