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I do know that some of the old Brit doubles came with a horn striker block, so somebody must have thought horn was adequate.

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Horn was the "plastic" of its day. Many gun and indeed household items {combs, buttplates, gripcaps, mirror handles, trigger guards, knife scales, eyeglass frames, etc} were made of horn before the advent of better serving synthetics.

Just curious, but is it not possible that such a device might still be made of horn due to its "traditional" nature more so than its utility? Put another way, is there no modern synthetic that exceeds the properties of horn for this purpose?

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