Swingcatt, you're on the right track. The extractor can have enough tension to pull the casing from the chamber AND not have enough tension to hold the empty tightly enough for the ejector to do anything but knock it loose and forward. Just bend your extractor slightly as Mikey described. For a thorough description of how to do this go to www.m1911.org and click on Technical Issues. There is a procedure written by Bill Wilson on how to adjust the extractor. 8 times out of 10 simply replacing the old extractor with the new one won't change much. Most new ones have to be adjusted when installed. George
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