I remember seeing a video where they said the SDI was borderline a scam. A bunch of pdf books that cited Wikipedia articles, half of which contradicted eachother and the industry never took them seriously. But after that (what looked to me as a bombshell revelation) I saw basically no ripple effect on the Guntube ecosystem, and SDI still advertises prominently in the major channels. So was it not true? Or is everyone I watch corrupt? What is it?

>>63957366 (OP)
Funding for guntubers is too restricted, they can't afford to have morals

>>63957366 (OP)
It's not a scam, but what SDI sells isn't really a great product/service either. Overpriced at best, and the "degree" you get at the end isn't worth the paper its printed on.
SDI promises distance learning courses that'll teach you the basics, and they more-or-less deliver on that.

However, you can learn the exact same shit for free by watching some youtube tutorials about woodworking and metalworking, as well as borrowing books skills specific to gunsmithing from your local library, or downloading old public domain gunsmithing books from PDF archives. If you've got questions that aren't in those books there are still forums filled with old boomers that mostly know what they're talking about.

As for the physical materials, the starter kits SDI sells are just basic tools available cheaper from companies like midway USA or Brownells.

If you want to get started in gunsmithing, your best option is to either become an apprentice for gunsmith (unlikely to happen unless you've got family connections, or you already have related skills like metalworking or furniture carpentry and you can show off examples of your work to display your skill level), or attend one of the few trade schools that still offer courses in this shit.

Can download all the course materials as a torrent and find out for yourself.

>>63957366 (OP)
People call it a scam, but it's more like paying for a shitty product. Nobody cares about your sdi accreditation, just like no one cares if you have a degree from full sail university.
I'm guessing the entire sdi framework was built with the plan that they'd become something like a gatekeeper for gunsmithing jobs. But in reality, anybody autistic or interested in guns enough to enter the industry is likely already self taught.

>>63957366 (OP)
the most scamworthy part is they will take your whole ass GI bill as payment which is far more then its worth or what you pay normally

>>63957605
>they will take your whole ass GI bill as payment
That's probably what it really exists for, to milk the GI bill.
Loads of guys are going to come out of the military, want to do stuff with guns and not really know how. And here's someone who'll give you a piece of paper saying you can do guns and it doesn't even cost you anything.

I'd assume most of the guys doing this probably weren't going to go to college anyway.

Sperm Donation Institute

>>63957366 (OP)
>A bunch of pdf books that cited Wikipedia articles, half of which contradicted eachother
that's basically most education

Imagine going to school for gunsmithing. Jesus

>Sorry bro I have a barrel rifling due at midnight

>>63957366 (OP)
It's literally just an AR armorer's course gassed up to take GI bill money from idiot SPCs who don't know that actual firearms manufacturing involves a lot of math and engineering

>>63957467
>However, you can learn the exact same shit for free by watching some youtube tutorials about woodworking and metalworking, as well as borrowing books skills specific to gunsmithing from your local library, or downloading old public domain gunsmithing books from PDF archives

you can also just pirate books. Find whatever textbook an actual gunsmithing school uses and pirate it

>>63957605
that's actually fucking grim.

>>63957467
This, pretty much. And it's worth noting that they don't teach real old-school from scratch gunsmithing either.

>>63958074
Two of the best books on real-deal gun design & manufacture happen to be out of copyright. If there ever was a "gun bible" then picrel is the Old Testament.
https://openlibrary.org/works/OL3156857W/The_gun_and_its_development

The Machine Gun by Col. George Chinn, 5 volumes, was published by the US Navy and is available online in PDF form and that picks up where Greener leaves off.

Hatcher's Notebook by Julian Hatcher and Sixguns by Elmer Keith are must-reads as well.

>>63957605
That really is the scam. They're really after GI bill money, and they know that it's easy to convince veterans to sign up for the program because a lot of veterans love guns.

>>63958101
Picrel is a very worthwhile reference as well. And as far as traditional gunsmithing goes there are few skills that are unique to that, most are easily learned as basic fundamentals. Most traditional gunsmithing is just basic metalwork: filework, making springs, basic machine tool operation, brazing, soldering, etc. There are loads of videos on Youtube and old trade school textbooks that can teach you those things.

>>63957366 (OP)
It is a scam but if you end up doing it anyway, opt for the most difficult courses. The easier ones are YouTube tutorial tier.

>>63957605
If that's true then it won't last for long. This exact behavior is why you can no longer learn to fly off the GI bill (there are ways to get your commercial/instructor licenses still)

>>63957366 (OP)
Stop watching Keemtripp.

>billions in tax dollars taken from the People and going to veteran rehab and welfare: GOOD
>hundreds of thousands of dollars taken from these veterans: BAD
SDI is pretty based. End all government entitlement programs.

>>63958297
What's a Keemtripp?

>>63958428
When's the estate sale?

Brandon Herrera wore his BRCC shirt for like months after the CEO came out as a gun grabbing Kyle Rittenhouse hater. He shilled the "buy a square meter of land to become a Lord" scam, the Chinese pot metal knives scam, and he's been doing that obvious data collection service scam lately as well.

>Or is everyone I watch corrupt?

Yes, you're watching a grown man try to sell you a product. That is all the internet has become, grown men watching other grown men try to sell them things

>>63958074
Don't even need to pirate. Library of Congress has a shit ton of old reference manuals. Plenty of other free collections of free old military -and- gunsmithing stuff available online.

It's not like the proper method to make a gun is any different than it was 100 or even 200 years ago. Choose your intended load, choose your metals, get to measuring, machine it.

>>63959732
>That is all the internet has become, grown men watching other grown men try to sell them things
I prefer to watch grown women and they're not selling me things.

>>63959723
he fucked over EVERYONE in fayetteville with those shitty AKs he got started with. dont ask him who he built guns for illegally

SDI literally has too much money to fail thanks to garand thumb

>>63959834
>he fucked over EVERYONE in fayetteville
QRD? I live in Fayetteville but never heard about this. I never knew Brandon was even here until a few months ago

>>63959985
this was all before he got on youtube. hes a glownigger plant.

>>63960036
So, building shitty AK's makes you a glowie now?

>>63958001
Mike impregnated all the chubby 5/10s in Idaho. A true hero

>>63958551
An obese faggot youtuber that makes his money from peddling drama to gullible morons that are mega contrarians.

>>63957366 (OP)
For profit colleges are all scams. Every single thing you need to learn about gunsmithing can be taught in community college when you're learning CNC operation and machinist courses.