Giacomo Arrighini (if this is the firm of the same namesake) is/was a master gunsmith with Perazzi in Italy when Ithaca began importing the very first Perazzi trap guns in the early 1970s. Perazzi sent him over in advance of the impending sales blitz to instruct Ithaca gunsmiths on how to adjust and repair their guns. The rest, as they say, is history. After a few years living like the Maytag Repair Man, he opened his own repair center in the Rome, NY vicinity. Among his most notable achievements were assistance in the development of the original Perazzi over/under competition gun, designed by Daniele Perazzi and Ennio Matarelli, and the removable or "dropout" single trigger. Begun in 1957, Armi Perazzi revolutionized the over/under competition shotgun, and 7 short years later, Matarelli won the Olympic Gold Medal in Tokyo in men's trap with their prototype design.
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