Quote Originally Posted by The Old Coach View Post
Aawwl right, I surrender.

But I won't ever call it a hammer.


but seriously, the only reason to ever really call it a 'hammer' is to be able to order a replacement.

To ME, a real hammer pivots. It isn't a hammer if it slides back/front.

However, I'm guessing they called it a hammer because it seemed more 'normal' for a lever action to have a hammer than a striker back in the 1890s, when this was designed. Bolt guns had strikers [Mauser, etc], but levers had hammers.

Just guessing. probably wrong.

All I can say is it took me a LONG time to finally figure that out when I had to buy parts. I couldn't find a striker for sale anywhere and wondered why my version of a 99 was SOOO different from all the other ones that had hammers.

And don't get me started on the way Numrich identifies which 'hammer' goes with which 99 model! ARGHH!

Striker is a much more appropriate term for it: that is for sure!