I purchased one of the inexpensive India made Brown Bess mostly as a wall hanger but when I received it I found the lock was something of very poor working quality. I just could not live with it so I started to examine it and said to myself - I need to fix as much as I could to get the lock to work better than it is now. I put in about 30 hours to make some new parts and this is what I finally ended up with. The lock works 10 times better than it originally did.