RGS:
Best of luck and I have also heard great things about Toby. I am no expert, but that repair looks pretty straight forward, and I am sure your fellow will do a nice job.
Too bad about recourse. I would at least take pictures (dated) and paper UPS to death on it. Can't hurt and shipper will know if insured. For that matter if you take packaging to local UPS vendor they may be able to scan and tell you if insured.
Utah: Good thought on bending stock, and I thought I read some thread about a repair where the fellow made sure the gun still had at least a 1/2" of bend after repair. My recollection is the work was done on a Boss. It was not clear to me if that meant you could bend stock after repair.
