Some years ago I purchased a Birmingham box lock with integral strikers and discovered that the points on both hammers was badly eroded and hardly dented the primers. Jack Rowe in Enid, Oklahoma, tig welded both with new points, filed them up and it has worked flawlessly since. It wasn't a big job at all. I think the best selling point of hammers with integral firing pins is that they are much less apt to hang up on a primer.

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