Also not very serious except the gun can not be easily fired now. The shooter next to me had loaded his H&A 45 caliber under hammer with powder and ball to get ready to fire at a small steel rabbit when I heard him say "****, ****, ****.....". So I asked him what happened and he said the trigger piece that catches the hammer in half/full cock just broke off. So we cleared the firing line and I helped him fire the rifle with him holding it, I pulled the hammer back and carefully put on a cap then fully cocked the hammer and let it go. The gun fired okay but he was done for sure. I looked at the broken piece and it looked like what we called in the nuclear U.S. Navy "brittle fracture" with a nice grain showing. No way to cock the rifle and have it hold now for sure but when I looked closely, the hammer spring was super hard to cock the hammer, much harder than my 58 caliber H&A for sure?
Any ideas.....it looks like he might have to buy a whole action as the few parts places that sell that sort of thing all seem to be out.
John