Understand when I spoke of striker fired vs hammer fired I was speaking of internal hammers, not external ones.
My first double was a J Stevens Arms & Tool Co gun, I "Think" a model 335.
It would have been designed, & likely built, prior to either of the G S Lewis patents. It had internal hammers, a plain wedge cross lock, not the rotary bolt of the higher [priced models. Frame bar was rectangular, not contouring. I called it my "Poor Boy" 21, because it had about the same lines & for that price range gun a decent piece of Walnut. Wish I had kept it.
I mostly shot off the shelf 3-1 1/8 loads from it, but if I felt them needed I did not hesitate to fire the 3 3/4-1Ľ loads & even put a box of the New 1˝ oz Baby Magnums through it. I was a lot younger & more foolish back then & it did have Steel Barrels. When I sent it down the road it was still as "Tight as Dick's Hatband".
