I started looking into it on the internet when I got home, and basically from the time that I looked at it online until the time I showed up from my first day of school was less than a month.
It was a pretty quick transition. I picked up everything I owned in Michigan and moved to Pittsburgh for a year and a half of full-time, 45 hour a week training and then moved to Louisiana straight after that. SAR: What was the first place that you worked as a full-time gunsmith? I got the job there straight out of school. I had flown down and interviewed and then I graduated from school and moved down three days after graduating. I was working there full-time and I worked there for about two and a half years, and then just eventually moved on from that company.
SAR: Do you see yourself as a specialist in any particular systems? Vince: Well, to be honest, I had dreams of being a specialist in many more of the tactical systems. When I left school, I was not presented with that opportunity immediately. I did a majority of their wood work there, and then when I moved on to my next job, I was the only gunsmith for a large retail business in Louisiana.
I brought a lot of my stock customers there, and I got well known for woodwork done to high dollar shotguns. SAR: The tactical end of it? Vince: Pretty much. We do a lot of long range tactical stuff that can obviously be transferred over into the hunting world or the bench rest world. It was kind of like the Saints just won the Super Bowl and they beat the Colts, and it was an omen that I needed a change. I need to do something different.
I bought into the business and became a partner. We were still broke as hell until it actually came out six months later. I was there for the very humble Red Jacket that was before TV. I talked to him about it after the fact and he knew that I was trying to start my own thing when he called me.
Basically, the Red Jacket thing was just kind of a distraction for a couple of years. And one of the motivating factors that he had to offer me and that I went for is it gave me TV exposure to get my name out there, not just regionally like it was, but nationally and internationally.
SAR: When did you actually open up a shop here? We moved in January of to our old shop up over on Greenwell Springs Road. It was about an 1, square foot warehouse that came with a compressor, lathe and mill. It was more of just a starter place to get our FFL, a place to do our firearms business out of.
I did a lot of traveling that year working on research and development with other companies. We did a lot of stuff with Greg Carlson. He was actually our first customer. We did stuff with Mag Tactical Systems with their suppressor systems and their Mag Alloy billet lowers.
We did a lot of traveling, had a lot of meetings, and had a lot of range time with other companies that came into town. SAR: More consulting role? Students must provide their own ammo, magazines and individual equipment for the shooting portion.
Build portion is all inclusive however students must be US citizens, be legally allowed to own a firearm and be able to pass an FBI NICS background check to take possession of their completed rifle.
Out of state students must cover shipping expenses to their local FFL. All federal firearms laws apply. This is the AK for guys who don't like combloc-style rifles, but enjoy the superior reliability and manual of arms offered by the Kalashnikov-pattern carbine.
Built on a Sharps Bros MB billet receiver, this perfectly-balanced workhorse pairs East and West in a manner unseen since the fall of the Berlin Wall. In , Vincent and Red Jacket Firearms gained international recognition on the hit reality tv series Sons of Guns which aired until on Discovery.
Late in , Vincent left Red Jacket and formed Mesa Kinetic Research with the goal of producing high-end AK platform rifles using production techniques and tooling superior to those he had been exposed to at RJF. A life-long admirer of the great American innovator and captain of industry Henry Ford, Vincent set off to do things his own way using inspiration from outside the gun industry to shape the model for his company.
He has written technical manuals on the Kalashnikov platform for two major gunsmith schools, built custom firearms for foreign heads of state, as well as written a number of articles for mainstream gun magazines. Vincent is an Eagle Scout, a devout Roman Catholic, and an unapologetic advocate of the right to keep and bear arms, something he believes is necessary to the security of a free state.
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