PS. Thanks Kutter, now that setup rivals cottage gun industry of Liege, Suhl, or Zella-Mehlis!
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It probably would have worked if there wasn't so much friction between the Pedersen people and the Mossberg front office. Mossberg just couldn't understand why the guns couldn't be produced just like the ones being made in the big factory next door ,,,with the same methods and in the same time constraints. They looked, frowned, and shook their heads every time they saw someone actually hand sanding a stock or polishing metal. At one point they moved two large (3ft dia. wheel) double buffers into to shop to improve the speed of metal polishing! Those things were down right scary just to be near, let alone the damage an unskilled in their use operator could do to a piece of metal. I'm sure they had too big of a wheel on buffers that ran at too high RPM's. Scrap Mossberg lever action rifle receivers (looked like a Marlin) were used as practice pieces for the unfortunate ones chosen to go forward into the field of Master Polisher. That didn't last long. A few torn fingers and hands, receivers rocketed through the makeshift plywood backstop and that was the end of that. There were plenty of other adventures in gunmaking there though. There was an Argentinian that was a former Colt Industries Defense Dept Weapons specialist that Mossberg hired and assigned to us to help get the project moving. His claim to fame was cold blueing the Beretta O/U barrels. Not cold rust blueing,,just cold blueing. Gee,,they looked just great....And come to think of it,, the building was kind of like a cottage, inside and out!!
