Those Spanish guns with soft metal parts where not limited to the USA we had them here in Brit land. Also poor steel was not limited to the very cheap Box lock's, a number of the pricier side locks also suffered from poor quality steel or no case hardening. I do bereave I was over crediting them with treatment they where just un-case hardened mild steel. This was the cause of the Spanish guns earning a bad reputation, though when AYA arrived the quality improved dramatically.

The only lessons in my life I truly did learn from where the ones I paid for!