yes hes still around and he loves workin on clones, atleast thats exactly what he told me at the last shoot as he offered to work on my Vector V51P. He is doin a HK53 conversion for me also so yeah, hes still around, that or hes doin it just for those he knows?? Even if you have to wait a yr to get the gun back, nothin like havin a professional HK smith work your gun over, Terry Dier is that person. If he works your SW5 over, you can rest assured it will run like a true $20,000 HK MP5 from factory, hes that good.