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Sarge · November 19, 2012, 02:36 AM

I've dropped a round on the chamber of my 1911s, and let the extractor over-ride it, for decades. I've suffered exactly one extractor failure from those guns and that extractor had literally been in the gun since WWII.

November 19, 2012, 02:36 AM	#18
Sarge Senior Member Join Date: May 12, 2002 Location: MO Posts: 4,359	I've dropped a round on the chamber of my 1911s, and let the extractor over-ride it, for decades. I've suffered exactly one extractor failure from those guns and that extractor had literally been in the gun since WWII. __________________ Visit us at The Sixgun Journal or the archive, at http://sargesrollcall.blogspot.com/