JohnnyBfromAZ Posted February 22, 2018 Report Share Posted February 22, 2018 Hi all, My name is John and I live in Peoria, AZ. A little background on myself- I've been shooting from a wee age; taught to shoot and hunt by my father and grandfather. My dad was on the Air Force academy rifle team while he was a cadet there and continued shooting competitively throughout my childhood in CA. He shot IMHSA and High power matches, and of course, drug me along. I began to shoot and compete in various disciplines through HS until I joined the Marines right after I graduated. After SOI (School of Infantry) in Camp Pendleton, I was stationed in Hawaii with 2nd Bn 3rd Marines as an 0351 Assaultman. I deployed to Afghanistan in 2005 and participated in a few combat operations to include Operation Red Wings. After we rotated back to HI, I took the Scout Sniper indoc, and out of 75 candidates, myself and 6 others made the cut. I deployed again with the STA platoon to Haditha in 2006 and extended my contract with the Marines to deploy to Fallujah in 2007. I left active service and came back home to AZ, where I joined a local reserve bulk fuel unit (the closest infantry reserve units were in Albequerque and Reno) and served as a platoon sergeant for 3 years. During that time, I went to the Colorado School of Trades for gunsmithing and graduated in 2012. My first job out of school was building rifles for McMillan. I started doing action fitting and prep work and quickly was promoted to lathe operator. After working there for a year, I got a job at Robar doing custom pistol and rifle work. Robar fell on thin times, so I got a job at KE arms in Tempe, AZ building AR15s and AR10s. After awhile, I decided I would rather work for myself and started my own company, Six Day Ordnance. My original intent was to import Galil parts kits from Israel and build classic Galil SARs and ARMS, but due to the cost constraints of US made receivers, that dream never really came to fruition. So now I'm sitting on a mountain of parts kits if anybody wants one or 20 haha. Since I was stationed in HI, I have continued to shoot competitively in multiple disciplines. I have shot USPSA, IDPA, 3 gun, smallbore silhouette, Team skeet, olympic trap, sporting clays and now PRS and my new favorite, NRL22. I am currently going to school again (learning never stops) for Production technology and CNC programming/machining. I also do gunsmithing and machinework when I can get it. So there's my intro. I typically shy away from gun forums, mostly for the fact that have to sift through 200 pages of BS to find information worth knowing; but I have heard good things about this forum and wanted to give it a shot. If any of you ever have any technical or gunmsithing-related questions, I will certainly answer any questions that I can. If anybody needs barrel work, or even general gunsmithing, I would be glad to give any forum members a discount on my work. I'll see you all out at the range! John Brooks Six Day Ordnance Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jtallen83 Posted February 22, 2018 Report Share Posted February 22, 2018 Welcoming from Iowa, via Arkansas! That is quite a resume there. Thank you for your service, look forward to hearing your perspective on things! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Malig8r Posted February 22, 2018 Report Share Posted February 22, 2018 Welcome to the forum from Michigan. Best of luck in your pursuit of furthering your knowledge base. Look forward to hearing some of your contributions. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt.Cross Posted February 22, 2018 Report Share Posted February 22, 2018 Welcome, make yourself at home. Thank you for your service to our great country! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Armed Eye Doc Posted February 22, 2018 Report Share Posted February 22, 2018 Welcome from Texas and thank you for your service! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
98Z5V Posted February 23, 2018 Report Share Posted February 23, 2018 Welcome, John - if you're in Peoria, we're probably only a couple miles apart right now. We need to link up - there's something coming up that you might like... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AnOldBiker Posted February 23, 2018 Report Share Posted February 23, 2018 Welcome to the forum Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unforgiven Posted February 23, 2018 Report Share Posted February 23, 2018 Welcome from Indiana brother John, and Thank you for your service. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shepp Posted February 23, 2018 Report Share Posted February 23, 2018 Welcome from Wisconsin heard great things? Where from, they might lied ???? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EngrBob Posted February 23, 2018 Report Share Posted February 23, 2018 Howdy from the Texas side of the borders. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sisco Posted February 23, 2018 Report Share Posted February 23, 2018 Welcome John, and thank you for your service. Speaking of Galil, CDNN firearms has a couple on their website, but won’t publish prices! An interesting family of firearms. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnnyBfromAZ Posted February 23, 2018 Author Report Share Posted February 23, 2018 18 hours ago, 98Z5V said: Welcome, John - if you're in Peoria, we're probably only a couple miles apart right now. We need to link up - there's something coming up that you might like... Do tell Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt.Cross Posted February 23, 2018 Report Share Posted February 23, 2018 1 hour ago, JohnnyBfromAZ said: Do tell Details will be forthcoming, you don't want to miss it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rsquared Posted February 23, 2018 Report Share Posted February 23, 2018 Welcome aboard John, from Maryland. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
98Z5V Posted February 23, 2018 Report Share Posted February 23, 2018 1 hour ago, JohnnyBfromAZ said: Do tell PM sent. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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