Gunworks will now organise your rifle/rifles to be freighted (freight forward) to us at your cost.  The cost will be added to your account.  See below for prices:

South Island to Gunworks

1-3 rifles (up to 15kg) $20 per individual parcel * (including GST)

North Island to Gunworks

1 x Rifle (up to 5kg) $20 per individual parcel * (including GST)

1-3 Rifles (up to 15kg) $30 per individual parcel * (including GST)

If you are in a main centre, leave it up to us, we’ll organise it for you, you just need to package it and have it ready for pick up.

If you are out of town, ie rural, we can still over this service but you will need to take it into a Fastway depot or have collected from a main centre address as Fastways will not come out to a rural address to pick up.  Save money $$$$$$ and use this service.

Either email us your Name, pick up address, & phone number and we’ll organise the rest

or give us a ring 

* Price quoted is on an individual parcel, rifles can be packaged separately but the packages must be taped together to make one parcel as all separate parcels (not bound together) will be charged separately.

One of our customers was shot at by a careless hunter last ROAR who did not identify his target, nor did he stick around to see if the guy was ok.  If it wasn’t for the suppressor which was on his rifle, slung over his back, our customer would not be here today to tell his story, pics of the suppressor below……………………….please IDENTIFY YOUR TARGET and keep everyone safe

Tikka T3 LH 7mm-08 with EBS suppressor – SECOND HAND

Had no more than 50 shots through rifle.

EBS information

The EBS suppressor uses an aluminium body with stainless steel internal muzzlebrake and stainless steel internal baffels for long life.

Barrel is turned down to reduce the weight so on a Tikka T3 there is a very small change in the overall weight of the rifle from its original configuration

We use a full 30mm dia suppressor tube for your safety and to increase the internal volume in the suppressor.

Using innovative techniques we are able to bring the forearm out so minimum material is removed from the wall of the stock keeping the forend fully rigid. Which is extremely desirable for accuracy and MPI retention.

This suppressor can be removed for cleaning and a small coating of a special lubricant which we provide with the suppressor is used to coat the barrel to prevent the firing residue hardening and sticking on the barrel. We don’t recommend automotive grease for the obvious reason!

Users may elect to simply leave the suppressor on and let it fill with carbon in which case the suppressor will outlast the life of the barrel in this calibre.

Seldom available off the shelf, this is an ideal opportunity to get the original alloy enclosed barrel suppressor from NZ’s original leading manufacturer.

Benefit from Gunworks’s vast suppressor experience!!!!

Only while stocks last $450 incl GST 12ga Pump Action Shotgun

The T3 Lite Suppressor Package

Features include:

Tikka T3 lite stainless (usual NZ retail price $1399) – available in:

.223 1:8″ twist, 6.5×55, .243, 7mm-08 or .308 other calibres may be available, please feel free to enquire

Standard Suppressor with delrin bush $460

Return freight $15

You choose the barrel length and we will fit the suppressor to your specifications

Total $1874 Todays special – this package for $1639 save $235.00

The Tikka T3 Liter “works” package

This is a fully pimped out Tikka T3 ready to go.

Features include:

Tikka T3 Liter stainless (usual NZ retail price $1399) – available in:

.223 1:8″ twist, 6.5×55, .243, 7mm-08 or .308 other calibres may be available, please feel free to enquire

Barrel Fluting – 7 groove square style (normal RRP $300.00)

Halfcock, includes upgrade mainspring and firing pin shaft polish and trigger job (normal RRP $115)

Bolt Fluting (normal RRP $138)

Sling swivel stud relocated to tip of forend if required (normal RRP $34.50)

Factory tikka ring screws replaced with high strength type (normal RRP $13)

Return freight $15

Total $2014.50 Todays special – this package for $1800 save $214.50

In the 1920’s it seemed like every small town was gifted something from the war trophy collection (see R.S. Billets book ‘War Trophies from the First World War 1914-1918, for interesting details on Aust and some NZ war trophy history ISBN 0 86417 977 4). This could range from a compact minenwerfer, a mountain gun or even 77mm Krupp gun. Bigger towns received bigger guns such as the recently restored Krupp in Wellington, NZ.

This MG08 machine gun would have come into NZ under that war trophy allocation.

For whatever reason most of these guns have now disappeared either into the hands of collectors or have simply rotted away where they stood. The machine guns in Waitaki Boys High in Oamaru being one of those examples. This gun was found in a small town, the original owner had it apparently for 60 or 70yrs in a shed and recently decided that it was no longer appropriate to hold it without a licence and it was surrendered for registration and sale. NZ Police are very reasonable about this, so provided it goes to a licenced collector of restricted weapons they know it will be properly secured and saved for future generations

I was very pleased to be able to buy this gun, although missing some parts. The overall condition was a lot better than the outside would indicate. The first stage of this gun was to strip and ascertain what needed to be done.

As I got it, it is missing the top cover, breech block, feed tray and muzzle booster. Fortunately I had a breech block and feed tray in my collection of old crappola. The top cover remains unfound and the muzzle booster we will have to make from scratch, but not a difficult job for our gunsmiths.

Once the weapon was stripped it was put in the de-rusting tanks for a period and as the before and after photos show the de-rusting via electrolysis has gone very well and the gun is in much better condition now.

Always a dilemma with this sort of restoration is the problem to losing the painted on army capture/trophy numbers but I have traced them as best as I can, I will debate whether I will reapply them or just have the photos indicating what the numbers were.

In NZ we are not permitted to fire machine guns on a C licence and that is fine with me, I fired enough machineguns in the NZ Army to cure me of any desire to waste my own ammo!!!. They can be fired with blank and that often happens here at airshows where First World War re-enactors fire these old Maxim 08s and 08/15s to the delight of the crowd.

More pictures to come as the restorartion continues, no refinishing will be involved, just ensuring the rust is dead, and that I can make it complete as parts come available. Anyone have a top cover???????Thanks for looking

Second Gun for restoration

* Robbie Tiffen first experiemented in the design of the overbarrel
sound suppressor in the early 1980′s.

* Gunworks was the first to design and manufacture the overbarrel
sound suppressor in NZ

* Gunworks was the first to advertise the overbarrel sound suppressor
for sale to NZ Hunters and Shooters in the 1980′s

* The Gunworks overbarrel suppressor design is the base design for
many of the overbarrel suppressors you see in NZ today.

* Gunworks currently employs more gunsmiths than any other
suppressor or gunsmithing workshop in NZ.

* Gunworks’ gunsmiths are also qualified engineers.

* Robbie Tiffen’s nine deployments overseas with the NZ Army Rifle
Team and Combat Shooting Teams proves we can not only repair
rifles to a high standard we can also shoot then with the worlds best.

* Robbie has deployed with NZ peacekeeping forces to East Timor in
2000.

Devcon bedding getting trimmed in the mill. Devcon is an expensive compound, but from seeing its reliability in sniper rifles over the years convinces me that it is very hard to beat in adverse condition.

Muzzle brake is our 2 port directional Tiger II which we find very effective, there is plenty of bollocks talked about muzzle brakes (such as the quiet muzzle brake..WTF?), but next time you see a Main Battle Tank (MBT) rumble past have a look at whats on the end of the main armament, a two port directional will be in place because tank turret rings, bearings and suspension have to have the firing load reduced as much as possible, and most tanks are firing projectiles at over 5000fps!

I did feel the 17 HMR didn’t shoot as far as I needed, so built up a 17 Rem on an AR15. I am not a fan of long rifles (or loud ones), and a suppressor always adds length, so the only option (short of rebarrelling a Steyr AUG!) was a shortish barrel on the AR.

I took this opportunity to quickly test three loads with (slow powder and fast powder) with long and short versions of the same barrel, so the data I have here may be of interest to someone doing something similar. Bullet is a 25gn Vmax

So briefly…….

Load ……………27″”barrel average………….16″”barrel average……….Vel loss
24gn AR2208………….3840…………………………..3457……………………383
24gn 748………………3919…………………………..3564……………………355
20gn AR2207…………..3918…………………………..3634……………………284

Accuracy was best with the fast burning AR2207 in both short and long barrels, so will be sticking with that.

Pics below show the semi finished set up (still have to flute the barrel), with suppressor fitted, and the dismantled pic shows the off cut of the Walther barrel.