Master Gunmaker Gunter Pfrommer and operations manager Charles Goodberlet confer on a new production model Grade 4 frame. Gunter adjusting the fit of the barrel rib extension for a grade 4 locking bolt. January production run of Grade 4E frames, shown here are finished engraved and ready for the Turnbull case coloring process. Hardened frames are then refitted to barrels.
Internal parts are final fitted before the stocks are attached.
Finish guns are then tested, choked, patterned and shipped. Typical Grade 4 figure checkering and finish. Only the best hand selected blanks are turned. After turning the stocks are graded a second time to assure good figure. Gunter Pfrommer preparing a new exhibition grade 28 gauge.