Houser's Gunsmithing
Chad Houser
3302 Harmon Rd.
Lincolnton, N.C. 28092
704-745-4191/704-740-5558
hgcustom@yahoo.com
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Custom Bench Rest Rifles
Houser's Gunsmithing offers full line gunsmith services for Bluing, Parkerizing, Color Case Hardening, Armor Coat Finishing, Custom Chambering, Magnum Conversions, Glass, Steel & Pillar Bedding, Trigger Adjustments, Custom Rifles, Fire Lapping, Custom 1911 for Comp & C.C.W., Custom Shotguns for Duty & Home Defense, Custom Revolvers for Cowboy Action Shooting & C.C.W., Double Action Only Conversions for Revolvers, Barrel Lining, Scope Mounting, Gun Repair, Parts Manufacture, Restoration, Muzzle Brakes, Custom Fn-Fal rifles, Stock Finishing, Stock Inletting, Etc. My main Bluing  set-up is a quality caustic salt bath. This ensures consistent results Bluing after Bluing. My parkerizing is of Mil-Spec quality & highly weather resistant. (Parkerizing is great for hunting rifles & duty handguns.) The color is dark grey to black depending on the make-up & or hardness of the steel. (I can do Matte Black Parkerizing as-well & ensure consistent results.) For Color Case Hardening I use bone charcoal & high heat to produce beautiful Color Case Hardening on Revolvers, Shotguns & certain Rifles, with swrils of blue, gold, yellow, red & straw colors that are spectacular to the eye. I have many Muzzle Brake designs for different situations. Muzzle Brakes with holes all the way around, sides only & top & sides only. From Muzzle Brakes for rifles & BFR Revolvers to bluing or Gun Repair: Houser's Gunsmithing is the source for all your Gunsmith / Gun Repair needs.
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Muzzle Brakes & Design
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Muzzle Brakes are seemingly simple static devices attached to the end of a barrel. What is not obvious is that the way it is constructed has everything to do with how efficient it works. The muzzle brake is attached by threading the end of a barrel to mate with the threads of the muzzle brake. The threads must be perfect & the shoulder must be absolutely true to each other. A short expansion chamber proceeds the muzzle. It is a fairly large diameter & about 1" in length. One inch may seem short, but is key to getting the gas moving out of the port holes efficiently. Kind of like a ventura action. The next area is the exit hole. This area is around one inch in length, but it is only .020" over bore diameter. (This leaves only .010" gap around the circumference of the bullet as it exits.) This is how the gas is trapped & forced to mostly escape out of the expansion chamber port holes. Removing the gas quickly keeps the bullet from destabilizing by the gas. The muzzle is crowned during installation as a matter of course. When I install a muzzle brake: Accuracy is either enhanced or simply not affected at all. (Point of impact could be changed, but nothing big.) As the bullet travels through the exit hole, what little gas that remains is bled off by the port holes machined in that area. The crown of the muzzle brake is inportant as-well & most be concentric to the bore. The port holes in my brakes incorporate 9-10 degree forward rake angles to move gas away from the shooter. Alot of muzzle brakes have 1/4 dia holes for the ports. This is not acceptable for me, because there might as-well not be any foward rake to the ports. The gas still blows at 90 degree angles out of the brake. Small port holes (Around 1/8 or slightly smaller.) channel the gas POSITIVELY in the rake direction. Example: Take a garden hose. Cut the female metal end off of it. Turn on the water & observe the flow of water. Now squeeze the end of the hose to constrict it. The water will shoot out further & more forceful. The port holes work effectively when constructed in this way & the blast is truly directed away from the shooter. The result is the noise is NOT REDUCED, but it is NOT INCREASED! I have no way to measure recoil, but I can assure you that there is a very meaningful reduction in felt recoil with these muzzle brakes. The forceful channeling of the gas is what makes them work so effectively. This is not a ground breaking design. It just takes a-little more time to construct. Maybe most manufacturers don't want to take the extra time? Who knows? I have an elderly client that still likes to hunt dangerous game over seas. He uses a 375 H&H mag most of the time & has no problem with recoil at all. A variation of the design has had good sucess in reducing the recoil of the 500 S&W mag to tolerable levels. For the 275 to 325 grain bullet weights it does great. (If you still need less recoil: Buy a 44 mag! I make NO CLAIM of turning the 500 into a pea shooter.)So there you have it. I hope this answers any questions anyone may have regrding my muzzle brakes. Thanks from The Gunsmith. Prices for installation run from $125.00 to $175.00 (Crowning, finishing & muzzle brake included.)  
Quality Gunsmithing / Attention to Detail
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Muzzle Brake Blank ready for machining.
Muzzle Brake Blank chucked & ready for boring & threading.
Muzzle Brake ready for turning down to match barrel diameter & finish.
Muzzle Brake ready for final fitting & finishing.
Inside view of Muzzle Brake.
Finished Muzzle Brake.
Aluminum parts finished to match parkerizing.
Black parkerizing looks great in contrast to traditional parkerizing on larger parts.
Blasting & polishing.
Quality Color Case Hardening done at Houser's Gunsmithing.
Rem #4 Rolling Block. This is the real bone & high heat Color Case Hardening finish.
Color Case Harden Rem #4 Rolling Block for $265.00.
Houser's Gunsmithing offers full line gunsmith services.
Custom Colt 380 pistol by Houser's Gunsmithing.
Custom 1991 A1 Commander sized 45 ACP. Custom 1911 pistols built to your specs. From mild to wild!
Custom 1991 A1 pistol. Houser's Gunsmithing does full custom 1911 pistols for C.C.W. & competition.
Custom 1911 pistols to any degree done at Houser's Gunsmithing.
Detail of grip safety area. Grip safety radius for 1911 pistols are machine cut to give the best fit.
Houser's Gunsmithing offers many finishing options. With Armor Coat & Baking lacquer finishing you can choose the colors & or color scheme.
Houser's Gunsmithing offers all weather custom shotguns for home defense.
Custom Win 1300 shotgun equiped with side saddle, Sure Fire forearm, Speed feed buttstock with 4 round storage, Armor Coat finish, Tritium front sight & slicked-up action.
Nickel plated S&W revolver.
Plating services avaliable from Houser's Gunsmithing.
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Heat treat furnace for color case hardening.
Houser's Gunsmithing work bench filled with all sorts of gunsmith tools.
My in house lathe that does the lions share of the work at Houser's Gunsmithing. It can handle up to #5 taper barrels no problem. I have a larger one  5 mins down the road at my brother's race shop for big jobs.
Caustic bluing, rust bluing, parkerizing & detergent tanks for metal finishing.
Milling & drilling machine. Indispenceable for a professionial gunsmith operation.
Ammunition loading station at Houser's Gunsmithing.
Most IMPORTANT tool a gunsmith could ever own!
Secure gun safe & wired alarm system with no windows helps keep everything safe. Plus I live here & this is the only job I work.
Quailty caustic bluing at Houser's Gunsmithing.
Browning A-5 shotgun receiver.
Quality Gunsmith services.
Slow rust bluing on Rem 3200 barrel.
Slow rust bluing on Rem 3200 receiver.
Houser's Gunsmithing offers professionial gunsmith services.
True custom gunsmith services.
03 Rifle rebarreled with a douglas #5 medium weight barrel. Cal 6.5-06.
Muzzle crowning for 03 rifle. 11 degree target crown.
Bushmaster XM-15 Carbine with custom muzzle brake installed.
Bushmaster XM-15. 16" H-BAR. Muzzle brake is turned to match barrel dia. & finished to match the Parkerizing on the  rest of the rifle.
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12 by 36 Gear Head Lathe. Capable of turning out heavy weight large diameter bull barrels for bench rest rifles.
Jeweling a Mauser bolt @ Houser's Gunsmithing.
30" long 30 Cal. rifled barrel blank from the Montana Rifleman fluted with 8 flutes. 1.200 full length dia. The Montana Rifleman makes the best barrel I have ever worked with. If you want a truly top notch bench rest rifle: I sugest no other barrel.
This is the tool that is taking over for muzzle brake manufacturing & varies other task. This is a great machine tool to have.
Here I grow again! Over the last few months I have added a new section to my business & new machinery with more heavy equipment on the way.
Inside view of new front section at Houser's Gunsmithing. Still a work in progress.
May she rest in peace.
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Blue Printing Tools & other accurizing tools that are needed in conjunction with the heavy lathe to create Bench Rest grade rifles.
Custom Mauser chambered for the .270 Win with a Shilen barrel. Bolt has been jeweled.
Sporterized stock for a Custom Mauser. Finished with oil urethane.
Finished Custom Mauser 98 .270 Cal. Shilen barrel blank. Oil urethane stock finish.
Custom Mauser 98 from Houser's Gunsmithing.
Custom Mauser 98 by Houser's Gunsmithing.
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