Birdhunter50,
Great job with showing and explaining the action and the features. You have a very nice gun. It is pretty much the twin of mine, except the gauge. Mine is 12 ga. I will show later in photos. I must say that I learned a lot about the action from you. I could never figure out what the heck the little U shaped items were! I thought maybe they put tension on the plate for suppoor tof the side plate. Ingenious!!
I could never achieve taking out the springs myself. I had in cleaned out by a gunsmith (specialty SxS).

Very neat. I do love mine as well and it is a delight in the field.
More later.