Lassen Gunsmithing Program

[cactus]

For those of you interested Lassen up in Susanville has released there summer class schedule. It looks like theres some real good ones this year and there only a week long. Also were else can you take a course like these for 80.00. Any ways Ill be there for there cowboy action short gun class maybe ill see some of you there.

[bigkahuna04]

A buddy and I took a class by one of the instructors, Bob Chavez, at Front Sight...it was for the AR-15. Very informative, very well taught by Bob. Wished I could schedule myself out from work to take some classes up at the Lassen Community College.

[Rhys898]

For those of you interested Lassen up in Susanville has released there summer class schedule. It looks like theres some real good ones this year and there only a week long. Also were else can you take a course like these for 80.00. Any ways Ill be there for there cowboy action short gun class maybe ill see some of you there.

Any chance you could post a link, I just spent 15 minutes going through the main college site and the lassengunsmithing site and could not find a summer 2008 schedule...

thanks,
Jer

[mr_leetzor]

Any chance you could post a link, I just spent 15 minutes going through the main college site and the lassengunsmithing site and could not find a summer 2008 schedule...

Yeah it isn't on there, you have to go here to their searchable database on the community college site:

https://dtwebadvisor.lassen.cc.ca.us/

login as a 'Guest', select gunsmithing from the pulldown menu and search during 'Spring 2008'.

[TomHynes]

Can they teach a course at a SoCal JC?

Any chance an instructor could teach a course at a southern california junior college?

I would be willing to pay more - maybe even $25 or $30.

[cactus]

I luck out as my mom is an teacher / counselor there so I get the classes early, but you can email them Kfreitas@LASSENCOLLEGE.EDU. The best bet is to call at 530 251 8800. Ill try to post all the classes and schedule tomorrow for you guys its a awsome program. They realy want this thing to succeed so tell anyone who may be interested.

[cactus]

Ok june 2-6 General Gunsmithing, Basic Machine Shop, GTAW welding for gunsmiths, & welding fabrication for gunsmiths.
June9-13 Cowboy action short guns, Basic machine shop, GTAW welding for gunsmiths, welding fabrication for gunsmiths, & Cowboy leather belts and holsters,
June16-20 Basic rifle barreling, Cowboy action rifles, Cowboy leather belts & holsters, & DFR Pneumatic air guns
June23-27 Cowboy action shotguns, Cowboy leather belts and holsters, Caustic bluing, & color case hardening
July7-11 Correctional Armorer school, Intro to knife making, Basic Law Enforcement Armorer School, Assembly & tuning of gas rifles (AR-15) presented by Brownells
July 14-18 CRT Correctional armorer school, LEAS DFR single action auto pistol, & intr to knife making
July21-25 Basic metal engraving, Customizing the colt auto pistol, advanced knife making, & DFR S&W revolver.
July 28 to August 1 LEAS DFR counter sniper rifles, Customizing the colt type auto pistol, Advanced knife making, & LEAS DFR double action auto pistols
Aug4-8 LEAS DFR long guns, & accurizing the M1 M1A for competition
Aug11-15 LEAS Full auto firearms, ballistic hand loading & testing presented by Hornandy.

Each one of these is a separate class hope you guys find this useful.

[Pulsar]

A buddy and I took a class by one of the instructors, Bob Chavez, at Front Sight...it was for the AR-15. Very informative, very well taught by Bob. Wished I could schedule myself out from work to take some classes up at the Lassen Community College.

Bob Chavez is the man, used to play poker with him quite a bit when I was a student in the gunsmithing program there.

I've been thinking about making my way up there for a summer refresher class or two, I'm thinking the M1 Garand (and M1A) class would be nice, and I definitely need a refresher in wood work, specifically refinishing. Wouldn't mind the engraving class either.

[Razgrizo]

My god... We need a gunsmithing course at our local community college... Is there ANY place that offers Gunsmithing or M16/AR15 Armorer course in Southern California?

[cactus]

To the best of my knowledge no there are no classes in socal. With these week long classes people come from all over the state to take them. Also theres plenty of fishing hiking and other outdoor activities to do there.

[Pulsar]

Don't go hiking by your self up in lassen, at least not armed. I've been stalked by moutnain lions up there, luckily saw it before it got into dangerous range.

[rivviepop]

OK digging up a thread - Lassen has a "Certificate of Completion - Pistolsmith" that's 17 units. Now I've been out of school for way, way too long - is 17 units a single semester? Two? I'm kinda wondering if I could manage to take a sort of sabbatical and live off of savings or find some random job up there for a year...

See page 34 of this PDF:

http://www.lassencollege.edu/docs/classes_programs/Degrees%20and%20Certificates%20Final.pdf

Courses themselves PDF (look around page 30):

http://www.lassencollege.edu/docs/classes_programs/Courses%20Descriptions%20Final.pdf

Just thoughts running through the noggin, but it sure would be cool.

[Pulsar]

Yeah, 17 units is one semester. The program works on a one unit per week setup. And unless something has changed, your not just working on pistols in that time, I think there are about 3 or 4 weeks on shotguns in there as well.

[rivviepop]

Yeah, 17 units is one semester. The program works on a one unit per week setup. And unless something has changed, your not just working on pistols in that time, I think there are about 3 or 4 weeks on shotguns in there as well.

OK, cool - so at "1 unit per week" would a guy be able to hold down some sort of trivial job to bring in a little cash? (who knows what the job would be) I definitely did when I was actually in college, but I was way younger with a lot more willingness to not sleep so much.

[Pulsar]

Susanville is pretty spartan on the job market, it's pretty much just walmart and the prisons with a few locally owned businesses in between. And the school is also full time, by state law it takes something like 35 hours of classtime to get one college credit, so to do that in one week they do classes 8am-5pm and continue to 8pm to give the students time to work on their own projects or catch up, you get an hour and a half for lunch. Monday through friday goes like that.