Schuetzenmiester wrote on Feb 14^th, 2018 at 3:01pm:


A couple years before John finished the book I looked at his pile of documentation at Denver from 25 years of gathering Ballard data and info! The stack was probably 3 ft. tall, and he said he had enough data to put together 4 books. After the book came out he was exhausted by the process and said he'd likely never do a follow up book. But last year he made some comments that indicated he wasn't totally against the idea if it could really be a great follow up version. 
Many people encouraged him to at least do a 2nd printing of the original, as it would throw wrench in the profiteer's works, and allow the next generation of Ballard fans to get a reasonably priced copy.
I have a huge library of gun related books, and regardless of subject matter, none are as well written as Dutcher's Ballard book in my opinion.

Don  When apart i did just as you suggest while i figured our how to replace the sear spring that she worked fine--  it was when i joined the 2 halves of the breechblock together and screwed them together it started missing the catch again --   I cant see any signs of binding  and i noticed the lower tip of the sear spring is inlet on its lower side to clear the trigger arm so I am sure i got it fitted right but then this started before i opened it up