Funnily enough Harry's 682 packed up on Sunday during first squad, although I concede nothing actually broken. Several refusals to fire the first barrel. Finally cleared the issue after five or six attempts. Popped the stock off after the round was complete and lubbed the action then faultless for the rest of the day.
It does happen, mate of mine had a leaf spring go on a DT10 weeks after he bought it(second hand). Unlike a Perazzi, where it's a 5 min self repair job, he had to take it to a Smith because it's far more complicated and not meant for self repair. So it's horses for courses, these things are mechanical for goodness sake, so they are going to fail sooner or later.
Again serious question, not wanting to start a bun fightAre these guns really guilty of breaking their V springs as a regular occurrence or is this yet another shooting myth? I do fully understand that a broken spring means the gun is non functioning but how often does this really happen?
I would say the problem of the V spring is that if it breaks its terminal whereas a coil spring will still work, possible less effectively but it will work, any way I am not about to loose sleep shot for shot for me this year at least the chances of a spring breaking in a competition are stacked well against at about 20/1
And I just shot with a guy at the Seminole, that first station needed to use his spare trigger. The spring broke on his second target! Another had his ribs done recently!
That's not the reason for the post though while researching I found out that there is a special way of closing a Perazzi and if not adhered to it wears the out locking bolt/ mechanism ? Any truth in this? Apparently one holds the top lever fully to the right and the closes the action rather than just shutting the gun as you would say a Browning or Beretta. weirdly I have seen someone do that here but he was a young guy who had just bought a brand new gun. Not that because my gun is 20 odd years old it should mean it be treated any differently of course 
Actually the first one I referred to was a Beretta! They obviously are bullet proof (no pun intended).
Lucio Sosta, the Perazzi trained gunsmith and US corp representative for decades, told me as he was fitting a new locking bar to a 20yo gun, hold the lever back as you close it and the thing will never wear out. I had done that anyway, but hearing it from him was an affirmation of note. A couple yrs later I was BSing with Giacomo Arrighini (also a Perazzi trained 'smith of a slightly earlier vintage than Lucio IIRC) while he was working the Perazzi area at the ShotShow and asked him what he thought about it. He gave the same advice. I suppose they both could have been looking to promote some repair biz, but if they were counting on that they'll be starving on the locking bar replacement piece of it.
