Gentlemen, Your diligence and generosity with your time in translating all of this information is appreciated immensely by me. I would never have been able to do this sort of thing on my own, even with Internet translation. I know, because I tried several days ago. I did sent V-C an email and hope they take pity on an old Carolina boy, but I believe I saw somewhere that they had lost their records in a flood years ago. Anyway, the gun is super quality,but will require some work to get it back right,i.e. barrel reblue and one ejector leaf spring is broken. But these are relatively minor issues, and should not be hard to fix.When I get it all back together, I'll post some pictures. Best regards, Sandlapper