If I use google it comes up with 6 gunsmiths in the Wichita Kansas area. Have you talked to those guys?
Here's a problem
once they getthe correct FFL ANYBODY can put u a sign and advertise that they are a gunsmith.
few can provide bona fides pertaiing to any sort of training that we require.
especially C&B and conversions.
Interview the possible smiths first, ask how many SAA and C&B and conversions they have worked
on and require contact info for all of them. that will weed out a lot.
Then go through the hundreds of posts here on CAS ( esp those by Goon and Coffin and Larsen Pettyfogger)
about tuning. Ask the smiths some "hard questions" that these guys already answered.
Like "What are the Problems with Uberti that Piettas dont have?
What are the three things an open top HAVE TO have done?
throw in some "wringers" like "how do you lengthen the cylinder bolt stop?"
how often should you replace the wedge?
that oughta weed out a lot
this is why we have the plethora of self-help articles here and on the former Open Range and the SASS websites.
I myself would rather trust Mike at Goons' Gunwerks than anyone in my 5 state area.
that's cuz Coffin is waaaaaay over the other side of the Mississippi ( and retired).
My soultion to these problems was to buy the Kunnhausen and a whole carload of cheap C&B basket cases
and work on themuntil I could do it myself. And I am still no where near as good as Mike at Goons or Coffinmaker
BTW it actually sounds like your gun should go back under warrenty until it is right....
yhs
prof marvel