I agree with Destry about the decline in the work now done in Olathe. BTW Bruce I have used J.J. Perideaux at Champlin in Enid as he is a Marcel Thys trained man and his work for me has always been first class. Besides I can drive there in 3 1/2 hours. I also had a loop come loose on an "Elsie" 20 gage and took it to Mike Allee there in Kansas City,who has done some "French Gray" for me on some custom rifles, and he resoldered it with a high strength low temp solder that didn't mess up the original (85%) blue. To top it all off, the gun had some slight looseness between the barrels and frame when in the open position but not when closed even with the forend off. When the loop was resoldered all trace of looseness is gone and it"snaps" shut characteristic of rotary top bolt guns. I think the loop was loose when I bought it but was undetectable until I shot a couple rounds of clays with it. I took the forend (beavertail) off and the loop came with it. I found also the Baker Type spring forend attatchment is more prone to this than a latch type (Deeley) or a pushrod (Anson) fastener. Have a great one!! Lee.
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