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Larry Ahlman was 21 when his dad, "Cap" Ahlman, died in 1964, leaving his son a small southern Minnesota gunsmithing business saddled with $20,000 in unpaid bills. Already a proficient gunsmith who at ...

Gunsmith Garrett Smouse bought a pump-action shotgun the day he turned 18. Now he owns a dozen or so firearms and a few custom rifles he built in school. "I've always had a mechanical mind. I played ...

SAUK RAPIDS — Mike Hatfield is using what he calls the vacation of a lifetime to stress the importance of history societies and museums. Hatfield is traveling by Dolphin canoe down the Mississippi ...

(KL)GUNSMITH04-Don Stallman, age 53, from Trinidad, Colorado, makes a mandrel tool on a metal lathe in his first semester course as a gunsmithing student at Trinidad State Junior College in Trinidad, ...