Sometimes it's what you don't do that best describes you... and it's a choice!

Jamie teaching a private ACE installation class in GA

Jamie and Bruce A Bat working on ACE installations​

In life, in business and even in our relationships, you hear people say all the time of what they do, but it is not always the actions or things that you do that really define you, your business model or even your relationships. It's the things they don't do that often that better describes a person, a business or a relationship. It takes as much effort if not more to choose the things you won't do than to just do. It takes thought, planning and commitment to beliefs or one's values. It takes contemplation, reflection and more important a decision to choose. By not choosing, you have made a choice. You have made a choice to allow others or other forces to choose for you.

Without trying to sound like a philosopher or a man wise beyond his years, life has taught me to choose and to have the freedom to continue to choose. Not just what I or my business will do, but more importantly the things we choose that we will not do.

We are taking modern custom rifle building to the next level by eliminating things that prohibited most people from truly realizing their dream of becoming a custom rifle builder or gunsmith. We consciously made a decision that these things that most have to do or master to become a world class builder, we would no longer do. Not because we personally couldn't do these things, but because we didn't want our business to rely on hiring others who could. We decided to find a better way and now years in the making this has become our custom rifle building school.

By choosing what we no longer wanted our employees to learn or master, we searched and proactively changed the entire process of custom rifle building along with the skills and processes needed by the builder assembling the final product.

No longer needed is the mastering the art of machining, the expense of purchasing quality machines or the investment of tens of thousands of dollars and many years of training.  By the art of choosing what we no longer wanted our employees to do, we made the historic route of becoming a gunsmith not only not necessary, but the techniques and processes themselves needed to be learned, obsolete. Below is a list of things you will no longer have to do, learn to do, or purchase.  This list is just as important as the list of what we teach, as it highlights the transition of custom rifle building from a select skilled few to the masses and to the common man.

All of this because we made the more important decisions of what we would choose to no longer do and by doing so created a whole new world.


*Subjects no longer needed to be learned and mastered to become a world class builder thanks to the ACE system!

*Evaluate the action for accuracy issues
*Set up receiver and bolt so they are actually dialed-in perfectly for machining and trueing
*True receiver face
*True lug seats
*Straighten/true receiver threads
*True bolt face
*Reduce bolt play by machining/installing steel bolt sleeves
*Bush bolt face to reduce firing pin hole firing pin tip diameter
for smoother operation
*Gauging and correcting loose headspace 
*Action blueprinting
*Bolt sleeving / bolt play
*Hand-lapping bores
*Re-chambering factory barrels
*Correcting crooked or off-center chambers
*Using dial indicators, and specialty tools for accuracy evaluation*Lathe setup and leveling
*Learn how to machine and chamber barrels in a lathe
*Action blueprinting
*Dialing bores straight and true with .0001" indicators
*Chambering and headspacing
*Throating
*Necking
*Crowning
*Threading
*Minimizing/eliminating reamer chatter
*Lapping and accurate bolt lug contact
*Perfectly true high-accuracy crowning techniques
*Smooth/polish cocking cam
*Open bolt shroud for positive firing pin travel
*Correct/modify bolt timing
*Silver solder bolt handles on
*Smooth/polish action for smoother operation