Originally Posted by eightbore
You can probably buy a Manson tool for less than you will spend to travel somewhere for someone else to do the job for you.

That is the one that I have that I got from Brownell's. Once I figured out how to zero for the flex, I have been able to get good measurements that were subsequently confirmed by people like Kirby Hoyt with much more expensive gauges.

It won't help with measurements at the forcing cone though, which I assume the Hosford gauge can manage.