I heard that Simmons Guns was trying to buy a Win. matting machine but I don't know what happened. Recently,the following was posted in another forum:
"We have been trying to buy one of the matting machine's, there are 3 that we have found and are working on buying one of them.
We still have a supply of winchester solid ribs for m-12's and m-42's but would like to make our own.
That said, we are also looking into comming into the 20 century are using a lazer engraver to do the matting.
It looks great in the samples we have done and i am hopefull that we will have simmons/winchester solid ribs at some point soon.
I am also working on the return of the simmons classic rib patteren, the herringbone style we did for many years.
These will be a by order job, no mass produced product, needless to say but it is hurting my brain with all the math i have been doing so i am going to have a Guiness extra stout at this time."
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paul salchow,simmons gun repair.
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