u/Glittering-Celery557

My father-in-law gave me a Thompson Center Arms Hawken rifle (.45 cal) that he hadn't used in many years, along with a box of balls, percussion caps, and a little powder. I've never had a black powder gun and I'm looking forward to trying it out. My question is about the end of the hammer, is it supposed to have the notch seen in the picture? It looks like it's made that way, but I've watched many YouTubes about this rifle and haven't seen a good closeup of the hammer.

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I wasn't sure whether to post here or the conspiracy theory sub, but here goes. My wife sent me an Instagram video (yes, I know) in which a guy claims that if you have a 120 volt outlet with built-in USB jacks, and also have a smart electrical meter, your data can be stolen and sent to, uh, the power company? China? Who knows. He says you need to always use a power block instead. Aren't the internal power converters in the plug doing the same function as an external block? Maybe there is a grain of truth here because travelers are warned not to use public USB jacks but being afraid of the ones in your home sounds like a tin foil hat theory to me.