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Getting interested in the idea of building a precision bolt rifle, but I'm not a machinist or gunsmith. That said, it seems there is increasing opportunity for people to build a rifle without those skills. Or not. That's the question, are those machinist and/or gunsmithing skills still an absolute necessity? Especially when you have barrels prefit to specific actions for headspacing (and verified by go/no-go gauges), it does seem more doable. Maybe "build" is the wrong word now, perhaps "assemble" is more fitting. I hadn't thought much of the idea until seeing this video, and this guy makes the case you can do it on your own without special tools. Thoughts? Have you done this?