I used to shoot skeet with a guy who owned a Peerless. Loved it. Shot the heck out of it. Was in line to get one in 20ga, which apparently Remington had in the works--but never followed through. Another friend shoots a Peerless at targets, sometimes carries it pheasant hunting. It's been bulletproof for him too.
The 32 continued to live on in the Kreighoff. However, the 32 itself was based on a French gun called the Petrik. (Imagine that . . . someone copying the French!) But the Petrik wasn't as different from typical OU's as were the Darnes and the Manufrance Ideals from typical sxs. They wouldn't have copied it in the K-guns if it hadn't been a good design. But as others have said, there aren't many original 32's out there. They were all essentially target guns and mostly got shot a lot.
