Jim @ Heritage appears to have my problem corrected at least for now. He had not seen my problem before and it appears that the dovetails that holds the extractor retainer on my gun were not cut properly from day one. Jim made a larger head retention screw and soft soldered my retainer in place. He has advised me that this may not hold up for ever and the next step would be to weld and cut new properly sized retainer dovetails. This would also make refinishing my barrels necessary so we are trying step one first.
I have had the gun back for a while now and waited to comment on the repair till I had had the opportunity to shoot the gun some and see how it held up. So far so good I have put approximately 500 rounds though it since the repair work was done and there is no sign of reoccurring problems.
I was extremely satisfied with the Jim and Heritage Gunsmiths.They kept me informed, did a great job and treated me extremely fairly. I would highly recommend them to any one needing service.
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