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Greetings, Well.. having put out most of the fires from being away for over two weeks here is a brief synopsis of of the Krieghoff visit and the shooting at the MSZU in Ulm. The Krieghoff plant was of course most interesting, what struck me most right off was everything was pretty much CNC, I did not see a single Bridgeport or tool room lathe(though there may have been one or two in some corner); they did have a power hacksaw for the rough stock(which endeared them to me as I have the same). There was an old style rifle barrel boring set up and what I think was a button rifling set up, it did not look like a sine bar rifling machine. I was not there long enough to look closely. There was one young lady there engraving; many of their engravers work from home. The stock area was pretty standard the blanks are roughed out by machine and finished by hand. One of the stock makers was finishing(sanding smooth) a custom stock and putting it on the customers K80 for a shooting try out. We met the customer later at the MSZU Tontaubnhalle trying out the fit; she was very happy. There's more to say but I'll move on to the shooting range. We got there early and poked about a very well stocked sporting goods store. At 2:00 I rented a Pro Sporter K80 which was set up right handed and off the shotgun hall. If my picts come through you'll get the idea. There is a skeet range set up, an international trap set up(with the standard three traps per station) and various traps for sporting clays presentations including three bunny runs and a couple of overhead from behind that are a hoot and pretty difficult. Our guide/puller and instructor Corbinian Fritz was really good and helpful. He had Philly the 16 year old son of my wife's godson hitting bunnys and air targets after one box of shells and with the exception of my rather clumsy help at a skeet range here in the states one time he hadn't done this before. There's more but let's see if these picts will load. The pict of the metal is one that The metal is one that Carcano said I should try for; for hitting a few targets.