Thanks Mike! If anyone is genuinely interested in the Remo/Geha/Hard Hit Heart, I will be glad to take serious questions. I've been researching these guns for over three years now. Sort of a combination of how poorly documented they are, how much misinformation there is, what the Germans were trying to accomplish when they were made, and eventually (after sparring via keyboard with one individual for about a solid month), to present them as what they are in terms of shootability: clunky and innaccurate, but hardly death traps (although I would advise anyone with a Remo-Popular, which is not a '98 action gun, but still a German bolt shotgun, not to shoot it...they did not properly heat treat those like they did with the Remo/Geha/Hard Hit Heart).
I am hardly limited to Remos and their design cousins. When I last talked with (actually, more like "was shouted down irrationally by") an individual who insisted that my defense of these guns was somehow because they were the best I owned, he was quite wrong. I'm the proud owner of two pre-WWII drillings, several upscale sporting rifles, and have had a few SxS's (I had an AyA .410 but sold it because I just don't have much for a .410; I actually have a nice 12 Ga. Hunter Arms Fulton utility grade that I like playing around with, i.e., shooting trap without worry of scuffing the finish). My interest in this design merely stems from its uniqueness, yet also the fact it can indeed function.