Don, I think Mike Orlen quit doing general repair work several years ago so as to concentrate on his barrel work. The repair work he did for me that I referred to in my earlier post was done after he had generally quit the general gunsmithing business, and that's why he took so long to get my Beretta done. Like I said though, he did a good job on it and the time it took was reflected in the reduced amount of the bill...Geo